As its name suggests, the new television show "Portlandia" is set in Portland, that rainy bastion of free public transportation, adult kickball leagues, and thriving feminist bookstores. The show satirizes the peculiar combination of self-seriousness and prolonged adolescence that's come to be identified with Portland, in the same way grunge...

Mean girls, beware: Kelly Bensimon is coming after you. The model, sometime-writer and star of "The Real Housewives of New York City" launched a bizarre anti-bullying campaign this week, starting with a so-called public service announcement posted to YouTube on Thursday. In the 36-second video (seen below), Bensimon claims that...

Gwyneth Paltrow has always been high on any list of celebrities people love to hate, but since launching the unfortunately-named lifestyle website "Goop" a few months back, she has been subjected to heightened levels of internet derision. Paltrow dismisses the backlash, claiming that "people get a hit of...

MTV recently announced that Brody Jenner, the less than entirely convincing Lothario from "The Hills," has scored his own spin-off reality series called "Bro-mance," wherein he searches for a new best friend to replace the hole left in his heart by Spencer Pratt. Given the fact that virtually everyone in...

Against my better judgment, I have been watching E's utterly execrable Living Lohan, a genuinely tedious and self-aggrandizing reality show that makes The Hills seem like gritty cinema verite by comparison. Living Lohan is well and truly about nothing, and the only Lohan we really want to see -- Lindsay...

I never thought that I could love/hate anyone, at least not any group of middle-aged fame whores, as much as I love "The Real Housewives of Orange County." For three seasons now, I have watched the "RHOC" flaunt yards of wrinkly, surgically-enhanced cleavage while wearing age-inappropriate rhinestone-encrusted tops, and I...

Dear J.J. Abrams-

Hi, how are you?

Based on all the hullaballoo, I am sure you are very, very talented. Maybe even "prodigiously talented," if I were the type of person to say that.

But to be honest, except for the first 2 seasons of "Felicity" (until the episode...