Filmmaker, playwright and educator Darryl Wharton-Rigby has found a provocative way to turn the Trayvon Martin case into a crowd-sourced book project. Wharton-Rigby is collecting stories of the African-American, Latino, Asian and Native American experience in regards to being suspected of being a criminal simply because of the color of their...

As the awards season brings a renewed -- and mostly well-deserved -- attention to the film Bridesmaids, I feel it might be worth revisiting. To be clear, I found the movie to be genuinely entertaining and I'm happy it's getting awards consideration this season. That said, I saw...

As GOP presidential frontrunner Herman Cain struggles with a sexual harassment scandal, one thing is clear: Regardless of whether he's getting good press or bad, his name is now inextricably linked in the zeitgeist to his former company, Godfather's Pizza, which statistics indicate might be benefiting...

Poor James O'Keefe. The pimp-posing, NPR-stinging provocateur was just caught with his pants down. If he's going to play in the big leagues of campaign dirty trickery, he should have learned something from Mitt Romney's failed 2008 campaign.

Allegedly, O'Keefe made calls to the Economic Policy Institute (EPI)...

Last week I wrote about the curious phenomenon known as "The Hathaway Effect" -- when Anne Hathaway is in the news, the share prices for Warren Buffett's Berkshire-Hathaway go up (most likely because of robo-traders reacting to the Hathaway name in...

In a recent BBC interview, Sarah Palin claimed that "Rumors like I didn't know Africa was a continent, that's still out there, that's a lie." But this appears to contradict her own videotaped comments to CNN just days after Fox News' Chief Political Correspondent

Whatever you may think of how Anne Hathaway and her co-host James Franco did as hosts of the newer, younger, hipper Oscars, one thing appears to be certain: When Anne Hathaway makes headlines, the stock for Warren Buffett's Berkshire-Hathaway goes up....

When you live in tinseltown, the line between reality and fiction gets a little blurry. So for most of us denizens of Culver City, we've gotten used to seeing Courtney Cox's ABC show Cougar Town filming in the middle of downtown. More than a few of us even considered listing...

Christina Aguilera just can't get a break: She had a lyric malfunction at the Super Bowl. She finalized her divorce on Valentine's Day. And sorry to break it to her, but her film Burlesque won't win an Oscar at the Academy Awards. Burlesque won the Golden Globe for Best Song,...

The story of how George Clooney got my sloppy seconds starts with a faceless couple having sex in a real estate open house.

Four years ago, while a big Broadway agent in New York named Chris was getting his shoes shined, he passed the time reading a GQ article about...

With news of Lou Dobbs taking a job at Fox Business News, it's worth wondering if he will now continue to sell himself as a speaker to the highest bidder through the Washington Speakers Bureau, which lists him as a client. Sure enough, I just confirmed...

Perhaps one reason MSNBC's Phil Griffin suspended Keith Olbermann has to do with their new boss being a big contributor to the National Republican Campaign Committee -- the very committee that was helping to defeat the candidates that Olbermann was supporting. Steve Burke, the Comcast exec...

The whole Olbermann flap over political contributions misses the point of the unholy alliance of money, the media and the punditocracy. The question isn't who are news correspondents giving their money to - which is all in the public record if you look hard enough at

As Lindsay Lohan prepares for her 90-day stay in jail, she might do well to consider the infamous 90-day sentence of another famous celebrity, Roman Polanski. Now that the Swiss government has denied Polanski's extradition, it's worth remembering one incident in the Polanski case that arguably is what...

Remember Sarah Palin's overly paid makeup artists from the presidential campaign - Amy Strozzi, Heather Cummings, and Tifanie White - well they all secured another Emmy nomination yesterday for their work on "So You Think You Can Dance" (this is their third...

Tiger Woods may have lost the Masters, but this past week he did walk away with an even bigger win: the First Annual Harding Prize for Best Crafted Apologies of the year. Winning in the Sports category, Tiger joined fellow winners Rahm Emanuel (Politics), Usher (Entertainment) and Adam...

As most of us start to fill out our Oscar-pool ballots this week, it's worth remembering that there's one category that we won't have to rack our brains over: Best Original Musical. What? Never heard of it? Doesn't exist? You're crazy! Not exactly.

You see, under Rule 16...

Two recent articles in Entertainment Weekly about the Sundance Film Festival failed to mention that EW is one of Sundance's biggest sponsors, and has been for 19 years. One was a photo essay of celebrities that appeared in the Feb. 5, 2010 issue, and the other a roundup...

Despite what you may have read about how Martha Coakley ran a bad campaign, or how Massachusetts independents were upset about the health care bill, I think we all know the real reason Scott Brown won his Senate seat: the nude Cosmo photos. Will evidence of this turn...

In light of Sarah Palin's upcoming job as a regular contributor to Fox News, I thought she might need some tips on now becoming a member of the Punditocracy:

1. The Pundit Express. Even if a plane is faster or cheaper, always take the Acela between New York and...