As the seventh installment of the epic space saga “Star Wars” debuts in theaters around the world this week, let’s take a look back at movie premieres of years past. The first “Star Wars” film premiered in 1977, and each event celebrating the following six films has been more impressive than the last. No matter […]
Navigating Hollywood as a Latina has been difficult for Dascha Polanco, she told HuffPost Live on Monday. But with a “good GPS,” the 33-year-old star says she’s maintained her confidence. The actress told host Alex Miranda about initially feeling intimidated working alongside notable actors like Robert De Niro and Isabella Rossellini in her newest film, […]
They say everyone has a twin, and while Hollywood is full of doppelgängers, there are plenty of civilians out there who bear an impressive resemblance to some of Tinseltown’s A-listers. In 2015, thanks to the wonder of Instagram and Tumblr, many of these lookalikes found their own 15 minutes of fame, just for their ability […]
Some of most popular names in the U.S. today prove that celebrities influence baby name trends. Nicole Richie‘s Harlow, Gwen Stefani‘s Kingston, and half of the names chosen by the Jolie-Pitts have risen in popularity thanks to famous families. High profile birth announcements can take an already rising name and put it on more parents’ […]
With an acting career spanning more than 50 years, Bruce Dern has his fair share of incredible Hollywood stories, and he delightfully shared a few of them from the set of Alfred Hitchcock’s final film with HuffPost Live on Tuesday. During a conversation about his role in Quentin Tarantino’s new film, “The Hateful Eight,” Dern […]
It’s been a little over a month since Bella Thorne professed to Seventeen magazine that she’s encountered a “very, very mean” girl in the entertainment business — one who’s “never had to work for anything in her life” because of her wealthy background. And though the identity of this girl remains a mystery, the “Alvin […]
A new survey finds that men and women play video games in roughly equal measure — but men are much more likely to call themselves “gamers.” The Pew Research Center published the new findings on Wednesday. Surveys were conducted on 2,001 American adults in June and July this year. All told, 50 percent of men […]
Boston University honored entertainer Bill Cosby with an honorary degree in May 2014, making it the most recent higher education institution to do so. On Monday, it took the award back, but it won’t say why it gave Cosby the honor in the first place at a time when multiple women had already publicly said […]
Back in 1998, the world was blessed with Brandy and Monica’s “The Boy Is Mine,” a smooth duet about two women who mistakenly fall for the same man. When rumors of a remake, supposedly to be sung by Ariana Grande and Jessie J, hit the web, ’90s nostalgia lovers freaked out (and not all so […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Star Wars” is back, and audiences at the world premiere of “The Force Awakens” excitedly greeted the mix of familiar characters and new faces waging war in a cinematic galaxy far, far away. Audiences at Hollywood’s TCL Chinese Theater began cheering Monday from the moments the film’s first words appeared onscreen […]
