At the Tribeca Film Festival on Monday evening, celebrities descended onto the red carpet at the Borough of Manhattan Community College theater for the New York premiere of “Before Midnight.” The film's stars, Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy, who also collaborated on its script, were chipping away at...

These days, our knowledge of celebrities too often originates with paparazzi images and snarky quotes by anonymous "insiders." After a while, it's easy to forget that stars are real people. That's why HuffPost Celebrity decided to launch its all-new #nofilter quick-fire question-and-answer series. Because how well do you know someone...

My parents have never expressed much interest in my job, let alone American pop culture, which I write about daily for a living. They're South Korean immigrants, in their 50s, and generally banned television for my brother and me while we were growing up in the suburbs of Baltimore (imagine...

Last week, we asked whether Kanye West's popularity was at risk of decline, now that girlfriend Kim Kardashian is pregnant with their baby. A so-called "Kardashian curse" sounds silly, of course, but not when real data taken from Nielsen showed a dramatic drop in popularity for the Kardashian...

She's pregnant with his baby. But what does Kanye West's much-publicized relationship with reality TV maven Kim Kardashian mean for his popularity? If Reggie Bush, Kris Humphries and Lamar Odom are any indication, the rapper could be facing a downturn in broad appeal and marketability.

We talked to SVP...

The sordid saga of Chris Brown and Rihanna has captivated audiences since 2009, when news of Brown's assault of his then-girlfriend was splashed across the cover of every tabloid. After three years apart, the couple appear to have all but fully reconciled, releasing a duet entitled "Nobodies Business"...

Ricky Martin is sitting in his dressing room backstage at Marquis Theater in New York. Black sneakers unzipped, he sprawls out on the carpet floor in front of a handful of seated journalists before reconsidering and hopping into a velvet armchair instead. On the walls of his dressing room, otherwise...

Justin Timberlake is apologizing for a video that features homeless and incoherent people in Los Angeles congratulating Timberlake and his new bride, Jessica Biel. The eight-and-a-half-minute video, produced by Timberlake's close friend Justin Huchel, is called "Greetings from Your Hollywood Friends Who Just Couldn't Make It."

An excerpt...

Time for another video that proves that Willow Smith is way cooler than most? Here it is: The 11-year-old daughter of Will and Jada Pinket Smith covers Adele's "Skyfall," the new James Bond theme song that's been heralded as the best since "Goldeneye."

Smith...

Rumors of Rihanna and Chris Brown rekindling their controversial romance have been brewing since they split in 2009, but new reports that the ex-couple were kissing at New York's Griffin nightclub Monday night have brought out strong reactions in readers.

"She shows classic signs of battered woman's...

News last week that country crooner LeAnn Rimes had entered treatment for anxiety and stress echoed that of another celebrity's distress, several thousand miles away.

One day prior to Rimes' announcement, Australian television personality Charlotte Dawson was hospitalized after a suicide attempt in the early hours...

On Feb. 11, 2012, on the eve of the Grammy Awards, Whitney Houston fell asleep in a bathtub at the Beverly Hilton hotel in Los Angeles and never woke up. Two months later, the Los Angeles County coroner ruled that she had drowned, but it's been well established...

Big news at the box office: The film pegged as the anti-Obama documentary has outsold all other movies opening this weekend, according to early reports. "2016: Obama's America" raked in $2.2 million on Friday, outperforming other openers "Premium Rush" and the indie comedy "Hit and Run." The earnings...

No, kids these days are not unusually obsessed with a particular brand of frozen yogurt. Drake fans and millennials alike know that "YOLO" stands for "you only live once" -- an acronym ripped from the popular Canadian rapper's song "The Motto" and meant to be an updated version...

Of all the rumors about Tom Cruise, one has stuck harder than all the rest.

In 2005, four years after splitting from actress Nicole Kidman, the world's biggest movie star supposedly approached several young Hollywood actresses with an offer of a five-year marriage contract. Among those approached, the rumor...

While I was watching "America's Got Talent" last night, a hopeful contestant vying for a ticket to Las Vegas stopped me cold in my tracks. It's not because the aspiring comedian's "talent" -- fairly entertaining impersonations of Freddy Kruger and Al Pacino -- was hilarious, or by any means worthy...

Forget the oddly medicated behavior, sartorial penchant for bandage dresses, that never-quite-recovered forehead line -- Britney joining Team "X Factor" as its newest judge is the best thing to have happened to the 30-year-old pop princess' career. It's Britney, bitch! Here's why.

Shows like "X Factor" historically have not done...

Kanye must like Kim, because Kanye doesn't do publicity for publicity's sake. Or, to put it another way: Kanye's fling with Kim couldn't possibly be a publicity stunt, because Kanye has no idea how to manipulate the press. What?

Let's take Kanye's peculiar brand of jack-assery, to quote Obama. After...