Facebook is taking a page out of Twitter's playbook — and making a play for its rival's key territory — by verifying the official accounts of celebrities, politicians, and more people with a whole lot of fans. But will their new plan alter the fan-celeb social media landscape? Absolutely not.
When Angelina Jolie — actress, humanitarian, one half of the most scrutinized couple since Sam and Diane — announced earlier this week that she had undergone a preventative double-mastectomy, a strange thing happened. The Internet, the great and terrible sea of bile, was nice. Of course the period of civility won't last long.
Things hadn't been going well for chart-topping country singer Mindy McCready in recent years, and with 2013 looking more dreadful than the rest, the 37-year-old took her own life on Sunday.
Inauguration Day may be all about pomp, circumstance, and politicians, but it's also great for celebrity sightings.
On the same day the NRA blamed out-of-date movies and video games as the root cause of mass shootings like Newtown, Bloomberg-backed Demand a Plan released this video.
Today in showbiz news: Fox has an insane new celebrity competition show planned, Bradley Cooper is striking a devil's bargain, and the last Twilight movie is gonna be big.
Bible of truth Us Weekly is reporting that beloved singer Taylor Swift's whirlwind romance with RFK's grandson Conor Kennedy, an 18-year-old second-time high school junior, has ended.
Feminist Ryan Gosling, Feminist Theory (as Imagined) from Your Favorite Sensitive Movie Dude, by Danielle Henderson, a book that pairs "feminist statements" with photos of Ryan Gosling, is out on Tuesday. What happens when "feminism" goes viral?
Celebrities have taken our wine. They've taken not only our wine, but that most average yet reliable of blends: Our pinot grigio.
Responding to the hubbub yesterday over her exhaustion, Lindsay Lohan joked about how she wishes the paramedics who rushed to her hotel room yesterday when she wouldn't wake up were cute.
Following Lindsay Lohan's car wreck last week, this afternoon brought more disturbing news about the actress.
Friday's parenting-outrage-inducing piece in The New York Times takes on the celebrity baby bump, and its rejuvenating properties for many a celebrity's lukewarm career.
Say what you will of Alec Baldwin; he makes great tabloid fodder. And so, the Post slaps him on their cover with the headline "Dirty Rock"—even though the story within is more about his alleged stalker than about Baldwin, himself. What do we know about this alleged stalker?
Terrible, terrible news: East Hampton's 2,900 non-resident beach parking permits have sold out completely in record time this year. What are beach-going New Yorkers to do?
If you think going through baggage and customs is enough of a headache, at least you aren't famous. A celebrity photo company is being accused of breaching the privacy of over 70 celebrities in order to snap a quick photo of them getting off the plane, according to The Guardian.
As another tale of Ryan Gosling super-hero-dom makes its way across the Internet, we ask ourselves: Is Gosling too good to be true?
Today in (very) public pregnancy news: Jessica Simpson appears on the cover of the April issue of Elle in Demi Moore's nude-and-seven-months-pregnant pose from the August 1991 -- 1991! -- issue of Vanity Fair.
Is the era of "Freedom fries" finally over? Or is the backlash just beginning?
The Internet has had quite a run of PC-police work lately, from the outcry against the ultimately fired ESPN writer behind that awful "chink in the armor" headline about Jeremy Lin to the backlash piled on Foster Friess shaming him into apologizing for his lame birth control joke.
In the media frenzy following the death of Whitney Houston, information has trickled out slowly, in often sensational individual pieces.
Celebrities have lost one bit of preferential treatment, Sharon Stone and Jane Curtin get new roles, and Angelina Jolie heads to the Middle East.
The 72-day-long marriage between Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries was chronicled on 61 (so far) magazine covers appearances in gossip weeklies between December 2010 when rumors of an engagement began and today, when the reality TV marriage came crashing apart.
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