Media coverage surrounding the death of the pop star and singing sensation Whitney Houston could be described, at best, as schizophrenic. One moment a nation weeps for a lost and beloved singing legend; the next they decry her drug abuse, poor choice of marital partner and public misbehavior. If there...

As loathsome and absurd as it may seem to many, Mel Gibson's plan to produce a movie about the Maccabees is not an existential threat to Jews -- unless, of course, he decides to change the ending so that the Maccabees lose.

Of course, that a man who, in 2006,...

Many have wondered why a beautiful, blonde journalist with two young children would walk into a foreign mob in the middle of a revolution.

For journalism? For democracy? For the unadulterated rush?

Lara Logan, CBS News' chief foreign correspondent, would probably say she was just doing her job....

Julian Schnabel must have known that screening a film about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict at the United Nations General Assembly would be scene-stealing. To set the town talking, the event would unite all the trappings -- provocative subject matter, prestigious venue, Hollywood glamour.

In fact, the March 14 screening of Miral...

It's no surprise that after someone passes, many and various stories of their life begin to surface -- stories that haven't been uttered in ages, stories almost forgotten, if not for the moribund trigger that whisks them back into the light.

So yesterday, when I awoke to the news of...

I had this fantasy about Aaron Sorkin.

It's probably only natural that I should want to know him, because, after all, he is the most intelligent and sharp-witted writer working in Hollywood today. His prestige began when A Few Good Men (1992) surged alongside The West Wing, which he...

Mark Zuckerberg, the 26-year-old CEO of Facebook, took on a Warholian idea -- that anybody could be famous -- and created a Web site that allows users to cast themselves as stars of their own lives.

Never again would the line between what is public and what is private be...

A different picture of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is emerging than the one Aaron Sorkin would have you see.

Instead of the fictional Zuckerberg who comes off awkward, insensitive and ruthless in The Social Network, the real Mark Zuckerberg is turning out to be -- well, a mensch.

Last week,...

Breaking up is hard to do.

Just ask Nora Ephron, whose divorce from journalist Carl Bernstein (of Watergate fame) in 1980, apparently scarred her for life.

First she poured the emotional energy of her grief into the novel Heartburn, an acerbic tale of Bernstein's affair -- while she was...

It was fitting, in that Hollywood way, that the last time Ronni Chasen was seen alive was at a movie premiere. She had been in all her Hollywood glory -- stylish and smiling, effortlessly working the room, among friends.

It was after midnight, a short while later, when the...

In this month's GQ magazine, there is a racy photo spread featuring the stars of 'Glee' by lecherous fashion photographer Terry Richardson. The two actresses who were photographed, Lea Michele and Dianna Agron seem to be having a grand ol' time flaunting their fortunate Hebraic genes all around the school...

In the film The Social Network, writer Aaron Sorkin insinuates that one of the central drives in Mark Zuckerberg's development of Facebook was the hot-blooded pursuit of women.

A little embarrassed, Zuckerberg denies this. And to counter the claim, he has publicly promised not to see the film. When he...

From the nape of her neck to just below her collarbone, Victoria Beckham has a famous line of Hebrew scripture inked onto her skin: "Ani ledodi vedodi li haro'eh ba'shoshanim."

The verse, from the Hebrew poem Shir Ha'shirim, or in English, Song of Songs, means "I am my beloved's and...