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Adam Carolla says living in Hollywood means displaying the American flag leaves one open to ridicule. The California resident recently moved out of Hollywood and near the home of actor Vince Vaughn. The Wedding Crashers star proudly flies an American

Most film directors, if they had the chance to interview far-left intellectual and linguist Noam Chomsky, would pepper their subject with with political queries. Not Michel Gondry. The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind’director’s new film is a long-ranging chat

Quality movies routinely get snubbed this time of year as organizations release their “best of the year” proclamations. It’s still interesting to note that Philomena, a movie that accuses the Catholic Church of cruel adoption policies, and much worse, received

Stephen Colbert isn’t officially on the celebrity Enroll America bandwagon, but he deserves to be riding up front. The host of Comedy Centrals’ The Colbert Report proved once more Wednesday night that when it comes to protecting the president against

It’s Oscar season, but one international outlet says the battle for this year’s Academy Awards will be marred by political-style campaigning. Each year, both movie stars and the studios that hire them shmooze the press to snare an extra vote

Hollywood’s attempt to sell ObamaCare to the American people didn’t fair much better than the actual legislation did. One mega-star, Lady Gaga, bungled the web site’s address in a tweet. Another A-lister, Will Ferrell, instructed his comedy site to extol

Palace Guard comic Jon Stewart will defend President Barack Obama … but only up until a certain point. Stewart spent part of his Daily Show program Tuesday excusing the president for shaking the hand of a dictator, Raul Castro, at

Artie Lange’s addictions nearly killed him, but the portly comic came back to write his haunting memoir Crash and Burn. The book reveals the depths of Lange’s heroin battles, his misplaced rage against those who tried to save him and

One can be forgiven for thinking the new Anchorman sequel has been in theaters for a few weeks already. Will Ferrell’s mustachioed character Ron Burgundy has made more media appearances than a politician in the week before Election Day. He’s

Ben Affleck is smart enough to know an actor taking up political causes can shatter the illusion movies are meant to conjure. Yet the Argo director and avowed liberal still sticks his foot in his mouth during a new interview

Some movies pack the potential to start a national dialogue on a given topic, or at the very impact the actors involved in the production. It appears making Lone Survivor had a profound influence on Taylor Kitsch. The Battleship star plays

Comedian Sarah Silverman is proudly “godless” but spends plenty of her stand-up acting addressing religion all the same. Silverman described her lack of spirituality with HuffPost Live late last month, slamming faith in the harshest terms possible. Religion kills, she

Mega-producer Harvey Weinstein’s film resume is chockablock with films attacking the Catholic Church, yet he fails to critique a strain of Islam responsible for thousands of deaths across the globe. So says Kyle Smith, feisty film critic for The New

Disney now officially owns our collective childhood. Not only has the studio behind so many animated classics gobbled up the Star Wars franchise, with the promise of new sequels and stand-alone features set “in a galaxy far, far away,” it

“Some of this actually happened,” reads a title card at the star of David O. Russell’s upcoming American Hustle. It’s both a confession and preemptive strike at a time when Oscar-bait movies receive intense scrutiny. It’s also a safe bet that

What a difference a week makes. Seven days ago, ABC turned over its Thanksgiving night programming slot to shock artist Lady Gaga, and the singer’s surreal pairing with the family-friendly Muppets flopped as a result. Last night, a three-hour, live

Maybe it’s time for Lady Gaga to write a children’s book. After all, Madonna knew well enough to defy cultural expectations with a project that didn’t rely on shock tactics. Lady Gaga did try for some image restoration last week

Robert Redford’s Sundance Film Festival began 30 years ago as a way for unknown actors, writers and directors to make their way in the movie realm. This January’s festival lineup is chockablock with stars, familiar names whose very presence in

Conservatives quickly saw plenty of comic possibilities when President Barack Obama first took office. He gave a lot of speeches that promised a lot of things, items that might prove exceedingly difficult to pull off. He mentioned himself quite a

The horror genre strives to bolster its feminist bona fides, but shoddy storytelling and hormonal appeals often stand in the way. The very notion of a “Survivor Girl,” the final person left to defeat the slasher du jour, is empowering

Director Spike Lee’s off-screen behavior has finally caught up to his on-screen achievements in the minds of movie goers. Consider his personal resume: He tweeted out the address of a home he thought belonged to George Zimmerman, a stunt that

It would be easy to dismiss Adore as an art house dud, a colossal miscalculation by two otherwise engaged actresses–Robin Wright and Naomi Watts. Yet as tempting as it might be to throw Adore atop the Worst Movies of 2013 heap

Disney animators aren’t handed a manual regarding what material should and shouldn’t be included in the studio’s projects. It’s part of a culture that began when Steamboat Willie introduced a certain mouse to pop culture back in 1928. Current Disney animator

We learned earlier this week that cable providers lost 5 million subscribers since 2010, a partial result from the rise of streaming and online content options. Now, Variety reports that pay cable giants will be passing higher prices on to subscribers

Podcast king Adam Carolla says MSNBC’s decision to can Alec Baldwin came down to ratings, not outrage over the actor’s latest outburst. The liberal news network initially suspended Baldwin for two weeks after a video surfaced featuring the 30 Rock

Spike Lee isn’t having a Happy Thanksgiving weekend. The director’s Oldboy, a remake of a South Korean cult classic, bombed at the box office this week, coaxing Variety to dub it a “big, fat turkey.” Enthusiastic fans of the original

Don’t expect Morrissey to have a happy Thanksgiving. The British singer and outspoken vegetarian is blasting both the annual holiday’s menu as well as President Barack Obama for engaging in the traditional turkey pardon Wednesday. Morrissey dubbed the American holiday

The minds behind the Muppets figured teaming with Lady Gaga would be a boost to their upcoming Thanksgiving special. Instead, the show pairing the shock singer with those fuzzy friends arrives the week of Lady Gaga’s biggest career flop. Sales

President Barack Obama let loose with an essential truth today while speaking before a fawning Hollywood audience–pop culture counts more than most of us realize. The stories you tell matter, Obama told a group at the DreamWorks Studio near Los

MSNBC has had enough of Alec Baldwin after less than two months’ worth of shows. Will Hollywood follow its lead? The liberal network brought Baldwin aboard for his celebrity cache as well as his knack for drawing headlines–for better and

Rapper Kanye West is doubling down on his criticism of President Barack Obama. The music star previously blasted the president for “using” him as a pop culture punching bag. Now, West is charging Obama’s cool credentials have all but expired

The Hollywood community rallied on behalf of then-Sen. Barack Obama in 2008 despite the politician’s lack of credentials. The proof he could heal the partisan divide and deliver on his lofty promises existed only in the minds of his starry-eyed

Audiences can’t get enough of the Fast & Furious franchise–and for good reason. The films deliver, period. Fast cars. Beautiful people. Car chases. More car chases. The sixth installment in a franchise showing no signs of age or kinetic decline

Cuban heavy metal bands aren’t much different than their American counterparts. Their music is unapologetically loud, their fans mosh with alacrity and you don’t have to be 19 years old to soak it all in.Cuban musicians still must answer to

Lists are the coin of the magazine realm. So seeing GQ magazine’s just released “Least Influential” list is hardly a shock. What caught people by surprise was seeing both President Barack Obama and Miley Cyrus make the cut. The men’s magazine

Veteran film director John Landis has few kind words for the modern film industry. The director of movie classics like Animal House and An American Werewolf in London blasted modern film studios during an appearance at an Argentinian film festival this