Vice President Joe Biden claimed Friday he does a million arm curls a day, but we call bulls#!% on that. Biden demonstrated some of his arm curls (definitely not a million) in a Vine posted by the White House as part of First Lady Michelle Obama’s #GimmeFive initiative to celebrate the five-year anniversary of her […]
“Being a female in today’s world is at best an exercise in subtle injustice and at worst a living hell.” That’s one of the many stirring lines from a speech Freida Pinto delivered this past Monday, March 9 at the New York premiere of “India’s Daughter.” The BBC documentary, which was banned from airing in […]
A new documentary about the life of Russell Brand, “BRAND: A Second Coming,” is the opening night film at this year’s South by Southwest Film Festival, but don’t expect to see photos of Brand outside its premiere. The comic, actor and author announced on Friday that he would not attend the debut. “You’d think a […]
What are friends for, if not to give it to you straight? Comedian Michael Henry perfectly encompasses the meaning of friendship in his sketch “Best Friends.” In the clip, his friend shows up after shooting a commercial. Not only did she have to do her own hair makeup, she reveals, but she had no lines. […]
Don Draper lived on hard drives for half a decade before anybody paid him any notice. In 1999, Matthew Weiner, then an unfulfilled writer on CBS’ Ted Danson sitcom “Becker,” spent his every off-hour doing research on the 1960s: what people wore, how they decorated their offices, what they ate and drank (and smoked, and […]
It was bad enough when Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams tried to ruin the summer of 2013 with their smug turd of a pop tune, “Blurred Lines.” But that was just one summer, and it was somewhat redeemed by Pharrell’s other big 2013 collab, “Get Lucky.” Within a few months, we forgot what rhymes with […]
Before she became a pop phenomenon, Britney Spears was just a fresh-faced teen from Louisiana with huge hopes and dreams — and these previously unseen pictures prove that Britney was destined to be a star.
In honor of Middle Name Appreciation Day, here are 10 celebrities with odd middle names:
“Seinfeld” is about to become master of a whole new domain: the Internet.
The National Book Critics Circle Awards for 2014 were announced Thursday, with top honors going to Marilynne Robinson’s quietly searing novel Lila for Fiction and Claudia Rankine’s politically charged collection Citizen for Poetry, and more. Robinson and Rankine were both finalists for the National Book Awards in their categories, though they lost out to Phil […]
