Big Bird was supposed to be one of the passengers on the Challenger space shuttle, according to the actor who spent years inside the “Sesame Street” character’s costume. Caroll Spinney, who played Big Bird for 46 years, told HuffPost Live’s Nancy Redd on Wednesday that he was invited to ride the rocket and said yes, […]
“Welcome to The Huffington Post, which, as our motto says, has been delivering news and opinion since, well, a few hours ago,” wrote Arianna Huffington in 2005. Ten years later, having expanded to more than a dozen countries, including Canada, Greece, France, Italy, the U.K., Japan, India and Brazil, it’s hard to believe how far […]
Reese Witherspoon delighted fans Wednesday afternoon with the launch of her new lifestyle site, Draper James. With the new venture she joins the likes of Gwyneth Paltrow and Blake Lively, who have been luring customers to their own lifestyle sites one overpriced item at a time. WItherspoon says in the introductory video above that her […]
Oscar The Grouch lives on the ever-covetable Sesame Street, yet the perpetually grumpy muppet can’t seem to escape his wastebasket lodging. According to puppeteer Caroll Spinney, speaking as Oscar in a Wednesday conversation with HuffPost Live, that’s exactly the way Oscar wants it. “The rents are cheap, I love trash, so I figure I can […]
Alan Thicke calls his “Growing Pains” co-star Joanna Kerns, “one of my great wives,” but the leading lady only got the chance to fill that role onscreen, despite a flirtation between the actors off set. “When ‘Growing Pains’ started, she had just been cancelled from a show and divorced. I had just been cancelled and […]
Brandon Stanton, the photographer behind the immensely popular Humans of New York site, has a special talent for getting strangers to open up to him. And while he usually prefers to shoot and interview ordinary people he encounters on the streets of the city — so far, he’s photographed more than 5,000 New Yorkers — […]
There will officially be one more superhero show on the air next year: Industry insiders confirmed today that CBS has picked up its Supergirl pilot to series. – This feed and its contents are the property of The Huffington Post, and use is subject to our terms. It may be used for personal consumption, but […]
Get a load of Stephen Colbert in 1992. In a black and white clip posted Wednesday, Colbert performs a goofy acrobatic routine with Amy Sedaris and Paul Dinello in a Second City sketch. Splitsider notes that it was Sedaris’ final show at Second City Northwest (but the three would later reunite on “Exit 57″ and […]
Many kids dream of becoming famous, but few do. Those who attempt to make their hopes come true in Hollywood are exposed to a very adult world while they are still very much children. Amy Berg’s documentary “An Open Secret” looks at the sexual abuse of children in the entertainment industry, profiling five men (including […]
After three seasons, Fox has reportedly canceled “The Mindy Project.“ According to multiple outlets, the Mindy Kaling-created comedy won’t be renewed for a fourth season on Fox, but there may be hope for a future on Hulu. Universal Television, which owns “Mindy,” is reportedly in talks to move the series to the streaming service for […]
