Well, that didn’t go as bad as many thought it might. Props to NBC for pulling off another live-televison musical event — despite the haters.      

As a movie-goer, you relish a good story. If you tore through Gone Girl and other books-turned-films, you may be wondering what to read next. Below, we’ve laid out a few recommendations based on this year’s critically acclaimed and popular films. If sci-fi and dystopian worlds interest you more than realistic ones, we’ve scrounged up […]

Whitney Port slipped into a bikini for a beach day in sunny Florida. Port wore a striped two-piece Thursday afternoon at Fontainebleau Miami Beach. Paparazzi snapped photos of the former “The Hills” star as she walked along the shoreline She didn’t seem to mind and shared one of the shots on Instagram, writing: “He caught […]

It’s been a fantastic year of reading and word nerdery here are HuffPost Books. Not only have we read piles of highly anticipated novels and promising debuts (seriously — check out our Best Books Of 2014 list!), we’ve also explored reading habits, writing tips and language trends. “Game of Thrones,” grammar and J.R.R. Tolkien were […]

According to 2014’s movies, Laura Dern has given birth to Reese Witherspoon, Andrew Garfield and Shailene Woodley. Dern is 47, which means she had little Reese, who’s now 38, at age 9. For an onscreen mother-daughter duo, that age difference seems like it would ignite red flags. Yet it doesn’t matter one bit in “Wild,” […]

He was desperate and needed the part. She was no pushover and knew he was all wrong. Too cute. Too young. Too Tom Hanks. Heck, he was Tom Hanks. “I can’t have you look the way you do,” Penny Marshall told him. That was all he needed to hear. In the summer of 1991, Hanks […]

Bettie Page is, definitively, back. A documentary titled “Bettie Page Reveals All” debuted in 2012, purporting to showcase never-before-seen images of the pin-up queen. Sure, the world has seen its fair share of Page’s nude form, but these particular images harken back to photography’s closed-door past, when published nudity was forbidden and iconic artists like […]

Miley Cyrus and new boyfriend Patrick Schwarzenegger are seemingly inseparable these days.      

Writing for THR’s current issue, the ‘Top Five’ writer, director and star tackles Hollywood’s third rail as he explains what it’s really like to be black in the entertainment industry (hint: you get asked to be Huggy Bear, not Starsky or Hutch) and the “slave state” of Mexicans: “If Kevin Hart is playing 40,000 seats […]

When you try your best and succeed wildly, eventually it’s time to call it quits. Coldplay is apparently flirting with that notion right now. Chris Martin gave an interview on Thursday to BBC Radio’s Zane Lowe in which he revealed the title of Coldplay’s seventh album, “A Head Full of Dreams,” and said it might […]