Given the cultural winds blowing through the entertainment community, Second City’s American Mixtape might be as fair and balanced as one can expect. The traveling show, playing through June 29 at the Garner Galleria Theatre in Denver, hits both bleeding
Showtime’s docu-series Years of Living Dangerously gathered a who’s who of eco-celebrities to alarm viewers regarding the impact of climate change. Matt Damon. Harrison Ford. Don Cheadle. James Cameron. Now, the pay cable has recruited the Celebrity-in-Chief himself to personally
Members of the pop band TLC are not pleased with Rihanna’s latest fashion stunt. Earlier this week, Rihanna stunned a gathering at the CFDA Awards by wearing a dress that left virtually nothing to the imagination. Now, TLC’s Tionne “T-Boz’
Former American Idol star Chris Daughtry is trying to make amends for what he calls an accidental snub of the U.S. military during a nationally televised concert appearance. Daughtry had just sang as part of Fox and Friend’s All-American Summer Concert
Actor Cameron Thor was arrested this week on charges he sexually assaulted a 13-year-old student he met at his acting school. Thor, 54, was charged with “kidnapping with the intent to commit rape,” according to CBS Los Angeles. Police believe
Far-left filmmaker Michael Moore is divorcing his wife, and the looming court battle looks ugly already. Moore’s contempt for capitalism is legendary, but the director appears ready to slam soon-to-be-ex Kathleen Glynn for her financial missteps, according to information gleaned
Actor Morgan Freeman thinks the media makes too much about race relations and its connection to wealth distribution. The Shawshank Redemption star told CNN host Don Lemon that people use race as an excuse for failure, but that isn’t the
The History Channel may need some help with its marketing division, but the network understands what audiences hunger for in the Age of Obama. The channel is producing Sons of Liberty, a new, six-part miniseries devoted to a group of
Kickstarter, a major crowdfunding web site, announced a big change to its acceptance policy this week that gives artists the ability to start their campaigns immediately. The change comes in the wake of criticism the site blocked a TV film
Anyone who thought liberal comic Jon Stewart would play down the disastrous fallout from the government’s swap of five Taliban leaders for a U.S. soldier was sorely mistaken. Stewart detailed every unsettling twist and turn of the story on Tuesday
Count Mad Magazine as the first pop culture institution to target President Barack Obama’s Taliban prisoner swap. It’s hard to imagine any other humorist in any other medium hitting back quite so hard in the days to come. The magazine
Peter Berg had just taken a critical and commercial whupping for Battleship, the big-budget dud based on the board game, when he moved on to his next project. Lone Survivor represented Hollywood’s first Afghanistan war movie centered on courageous U.S.
It’s hard to imagine a fan refusing to jump on stage with his or her favorite singer. Yet one ticket holder did just that during a Bruno Mars concert. And the stylish singer didn’t handle rejection well. Now, his label
Gwyneth Paltrow is taking shrapnel on all sides, to turn her own comparison back at her. The Oscar winner endured web-based mockery when she dared to compare being insulted online to what soldiers face on the battlefield. Now, the hosts
The new documentary Almost Sunrise takes care to honor the sacrifices of the men and women who fight for our freedom while trying to heal the soldiers’ enduring mental scars. A Kickstarter.com campaign for the project, which wraps June 10,
Madonna can look a little … awkward … trying to keep up with her younger, envelope-shredding peers. She showed off her underarm hair via social media a few weeks back, and she caught the paparazzi’s eye with her dental grill
Rolling Stone magazine covers a breadth of music, but its editorial content skews dramatically to the left. Country music, on the other hand, is arguably the most traditionalist genre around–read: conservative. Now, the veteran magazine is reaching out to country
Ann B. Davis never changed your sheets, cooked you lunch or straightened up your messy closet. Yet social media is full of tributes today for the actress best known as Alice the housekeeper on The Brady Bunch. The sense of
When you think sports rivalries, the Yankees/Red Sox, North Carolina/Duke and Muhammad Ali/Joe Frazier roar to mind. Don’t forget the enmity between the Big Apple and Los Angeles, one which could get nastier thanks to another OT thriller Sunday night
Mistakes, Jane Fonda has made a few. The actress admitted as much over the years, most notably in her 2013 interview with Oprah Winfrey regarding her infamous Vietnam War photo op. Now, the hard-left actress Fonda will try to share some of
Justin Bieber has spent the past 12 months dodging nasty tabloid stories, a major slam from the star of Neighbors and a box office dud. The singer’s latest problem may trump them all. A video showing Bieber telling a racist
Donald Trump didn’t tell Arsenio Hall he was fired. The American public did just that today. The Arsenio Hall Show, the reboot of the successful ’90s talker, got canceled after just one season. Hall simply couldn’t compete with the current
James Taylor wants to pass the hat around–again– for President Barack Obama. The veteran troubadour who started campaigning for then-Sen. Obama back in 2008, is using an upcoming concert to raise funds for Obama’s Organizing for America group. Anyone who
It’s no accident that the events in the thriller Cold in July take place during the 1980s. The main character, after killing a home intruder, faces off against both the fallout from that act as well as possible police chicanery.
George Lucas no longer controls the Force now that he sold his beloved Star Wars franchise to Disney for a cool $4.05 billion. That doesn’t mean the filmmaker lacks clout. Consider the auteur’s museum project, a place where he’ll be
Anyone hoping for the current superhero craze to die down is in for some sobering news. Consider the San Diego Comic-Con, a signature event for those who follow genre faves like Star Wars, The Walking Dead and Marvel movies (Iron Man,
An artist’s beef with Spike Lee over disputed poster art is now a legal fight. Lee tried to promote what would become one of 2013’s biggest duds, the director’s remake of Oldboy, by sharing poster art from the film’s marketing
The greater LA community got punk’d. A series of billboards promoting the Society for the Prevention of Celebrity Divorce is nothing of the kind. It’s actually part of a WE tv viral ad campaign pushing a new reality series. The show
It’s shockingly common for famous folks to trip over their reactions to national tragedies. When Gilbert Gottfried made an insensitive crack following the Japanese tsunami of 2011 he lost his gig with Aflac. Now, Mahbod Moghadam is suddenly unwelcome at
Judd Apatow and Seth Rogen got to spend a day in Sarah Palin’s shoes over the holiday weekend. The prolific comedy producer and his frequent collaborator were going about their business when The Washington Post’s Ann Hornaday singled them out
A television ad seen near Sunset and Cahuenga in Hollywood offers this compelling tagline. “WWI Made Stalin a Man. WWII Made Him a Tyrant.” The event in question is The History Channel’s The World Wars, a three-day presentation kicking off at 9
Hollywood power players like Ryan Seacrest, Sherry Lansing and Mark Wahlberg aren’t hitting the Holiday Inn following the boycott against LA hotels owned by the Sultan of Brunei. Turns out The Beverly Hills Hotel isn’t the only posh place where
Duck Dynasty star Phil Robertson hasn’t forgotten how the press treated him following the release of the now-infamous interview he gave to GQ magazine late last year. The God-fearing reality show star earned a brief suspension from his network after
Jennifer Lawrence may soon learn that even off-mic comments can come back to haunt you in 2014. No, the American Hustle stunner didn’t say something as profoundly awful as what Clippers owner Donald Sterling did recently. Instead, she uttered a
Salon.com is speaking out about Jason Biggs’ crude Twitter account. Why now? The American Pie star is notorious for his R-rated social media messages. Yet Salon.com scribe Daniel D’Addario is suddenly furious about Biggs’ Twitter jokes. What changed? Biggs is
Shooting on the seventh film in the Star Wars saga started this week, but the production isn’t turning to Tunisia to approximate the main character’s roots. Star Wars creator George Lucas used Tunisia to represent Luke Skywalker’s home planet of
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is going to let someone else trash the Koch brothers for a change. The Nevada Democrat and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi will join far-left filmmaker Robert Greenwald in D.C. today to screen clips from
The Daily Beast might be expected to cut Macklemore some slack. The two share similar ideologies, and the rapper’s efforts supporting same-sex marriage are well known. So when some folks were outraged by Macklemore donning a costume that reeked of
Rapper Macklemore, reeling from accusations his recent choice of stage costume smacked of anti-Semitism, took to his blog Monday to defend his actions. Everyone from comic actor Seth Rogen to the liberal-leaning Daily Beast savaged Macklemore for his stunt. The
The Expendables, those aging but still deadly warriors at the heart of that he-man franchise, get things done with brawn and bullets. The franchise’s cast gathered on a Cannes red carpet over the weekend armed with signs, not AK-47s. Yes,
