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Director Clint Eastwood’s “J. Edgar” was supposed to be a key Oscar contender this awards season. Instead, withering reviews and audience indifference have all but killed its chances at significant honors. That hasn’t stopped critics from soft-pedaling their critiques to

Parents listen to their teen’s choice of music at their own peril. Between the sexualized lyrics and anti-capitalist choruses, today’s music often clashes with the messages parents are trying to teach their children. That’s not the case with country crooner

Pop princess Miley Cyrus got blasted by Occupy Wall Street types for daring to support the rag-tag movement. Now, Hannah Montana herself is taking fire from conservative columnist Michelle Malkin. And it isn’t pretty. Malkin says Cyrus’ attempt to co-opt

Current Bond actor Daniel Craig shook headlines this week by blasting the Kardashian Klan in a GQ magazine interview. Easy targets, to be sure, but Craig’s comments quick went viral. In that same publication Craig also stirring up something far

The Roots’ Questlove is still feeling the heat over grossly insulting Congresswoman Michele Bachmann on “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” last month. The band played the Fishbone song “Lyin’ Ass Bitch” when Bachmann took a seat next to Fallon for

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You never want to get in Adam Carolla’s cross hairs when he goes off on a rant. The podcast king is known for his blistering tirades, and while he’s not the most politically active comic he does dabble in ideological

Actor Robert Davi returned to his first love – music – this year with the celebrated disk “Davi Sings Sinatra: On the Road to Romance.” Now, the star of “Die Hard” and “License to Kill” is using his pipes for

Movie lovers rarely agree on anything, but we’re pretty sure 99 percent of Academy Awards watchers hated James Franco’s performance as Oscar co-host last year. Fellow actor Seth Rogen is sticking up for his “Pineapple Express” co-star, albeit belatedly. Rogen,

Oscar-winning film producer Harvey Weinstein entered Bill O’Reilly’s “No Spin Zone” last night, and the grouchy executive may still be spinning as you read this. Weinstein was there to support some of his recent films, including the Oscar-bait biopic “My

The hardest person to shop for on your Christmas list can usually be placated with the right book or CD. Yes, people still buy those shiny silver disks, especially since it’s hard to wrap up a digital file and stuff

Groups like the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation and the National Organization for Women exist to protect the rights of those too often attacked in the press or in the culture at large. But their noble missions seem to

File this in the “it’s too crazy to make up” department. Turns out Mad Cow Disease might change the way we hear classical music. A new report reveals that the regulations overseeing the use of certain animal tissue – like

Turns out there’s life after being sliced and diced in the media. Comedian Gilbert Gottfried took plenty of heat for firing off an utterly tasteless joke in the wake of the Japanese tsunami disaster. He got canned by Aflac –

Actress Scarlett Johansson, like most of her Hollywood peers, has a soft spot for the Occupy Wall Street movement. But the actress known in the tabloids as ScarJo isn’t ready to give them a complete pass. Johansson told Interview Magazine

Rick Moody at The Guardian: A sturdy corollary emerges in the wake of the graphic artist Frank Miller‘s recent diatribe against the Occupy Wall Street movement (“A pack of louts, thieves, and rapists … Wake up, pond scum, America is

The latest spiritual smash from Sherwood Pictures will be available on DVD and Blu-ray starting early next year. “Courageous,” the tale of four police officers whose lives are transformed by loss, gave the spiritually aware studio its fourth hit in

The National Organization for Women (NOW) has spoken – at last – regarding the “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon’s” house band welcoming Congressman Michele Bachmann to the show with a profane, insulting song. I am heartened to see that conservatives

It seems only right that Blu-ray disks fit so snugly in most Christmas stockings. This holiday season is the perfect time to give family and friends a new Blu-ray title or two. The Blu-ray format is finally catching on with

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) – GOP Presidential candidate Michele Bachmann received an apology from an NBC executive after an off-color song was played during her appearance on Jimmy Fallon’s “Late Night,” her spokeswoman said late Wednesday. The Minnesota congresswoman received

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Russell Simmons can’t stop loving the Occupy Wall Street movement. The hip-hop impresario recently told The Huffington Post that it’s his “moral duty” to support the nascent movement, a veritable “revolution” that represents his most important work to date. What,

Congresswoman Michele Bachmann isn’t letting NBC off the hook – even if the mainstream media is more than willing to do just that. Bachmann appeared as a guest on “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” on Monday, and when she took

When a sitting United States Congresswoman, current Presidential candidate, mother of five, and foster mother of 23 is humiliated on your television show, a snark-free apology is probably the best way to deal with the situation. It will be interesting

Brett Ratner offered up a quick, sincere apology earlier this month after using a gay slur in a public venue. The result? Ratner was forced to resign from his duties as Oscar show producer. Questlove, a member of The Roots,

The current 3D wave has thrown just about everything our way, from three-dimensional boobs (“Piranha 3D”) to Medusa’s snaky mane (“Clash of the Titans”). But we haven’t yet had a certifiable auteur take a crack at the format – until

There must have been some ferocious re-writing going on behind the scenes of “The Iron Lady.” The upcoming biopic of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher seemed like yet another liberal Hollywood hatchet job, according to an early script review done here

Seems like The Roots’ Questlove isn’t having any second thoughts about trashing a U.S. Congresswoman on national TV. In fact, he’s busy congratulating himself on Twitter for treating a “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” guest like pond scum. The Roots,

The Caped Crusader will be sneaking into movie houses a few days before Ol’ Saint Nick does his annual toy run. A prologue to director Christopher Nolan’s “The Dark Knight Rises” will hit theaters Dec. 21 in front of the

For even the casual news consumer, the Occupy Wall Street protests have morphed from a crush of neo-hippies “fighting the power” to a movement akin to a screaming toddler. But when “Inception” star Joseph Gordon-Levitt perused the OWS landscape recently

The more things change in Hollywood – CGI, franchises based on toys and Taylor Lautner, movie star – the more things stay the same. Like the fact that women are poorly represented in front of the camera, and the situation

When Kelly Osbourne speaks, the culture changes. That’s what the daughter of heavy metal legend Ozzy Osbourne is hoping, anyway, with her new piece at The Huffington Post. Seems Ms. Osbourne recently used the “T” word – tranny – and

MTV: The former MTV.com movie reviewer recently sat down for a chat to promote the book, currently in stores. Though he didn’t change his opinions in the reviews since he wrote them, Loder did admit that his personal opinions of

Sigh: Speaking mostly in French at a press conference in Algiers yesterday, Stone said he was shocked by the global financial crisis and “to see how money was venerated by America”. Its middle class “is the biggest victim” said the

MSNBC: Justin Timberlake kept his promise — and so did his “Friends with Benefits” co-star, Mila Kunis. Kunis accompanied Sgt. Scott Moore to the Marine Corps Ball on Friday night in Greenville, N.C., according to several local news reports in