What It Would Look Like If The Dowager Countess Leaves ‘Downton Abbey’
With the Season 5 finale of “Downton Abbey” on Sunday night, we said farewell to our vaguely high brow soap opera. It was a bumpy season, one that started off…
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‘The O’Reilly Factor’ Ratings Soar Amidst Controversy Over Host’s War-Reporting
LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) – “The O’Reilly Factor” has long been the most popular program in cable news, and the controversy surrounding host Bill O’Reilly’s war-reporting experiences has only helped elevate…
Obama defends immigration policy in Telemundo town hall
READ: DHS impasse down to the wire in Congress “Instead of trying to hold hostage funding for the Department of Homeland Security, which is so important for our national security,…
Obama defends immigration policy in Telemundo town hall
READ: DHS impasse down to the wire in Congress “Instead of trying to hold hostage funding for the Department of Homeland Security, which is so important for our national security,…
Korean Band Tries To Hypnotize Viewers With Truly Strange Music Video
Korean pop duo Norazo released a music video for their new song “It’s Your Fate (Ni Pal-jah-yah)” on February 22 with one goal: hypnotizing their audience. – This post originally…
For Bill O’Reilly and Fox News, a Symbiotic Relationship
The Fox News host Bill O’Reilly aggressively defended his Falklands coverage earlier in his career after reports surfaced that he had embellished stories about his war reporting. Hours after the…
For Bill O’Reilly and Fox News, a Symbiotic Relationship
The Fox News host Bill O’Reilly aggressively defended his Falklands coverage earlier in his career after reports surfaced that he had embellished stories about his war reporting. Hours after the…
Will Smith Crushed The ‘Fresh Prince’ Theme Song On ‘Ellen,’ Because Dreams
Will Smith is using his “Focus” press tour to remind fans of his rap career. After blessing us with a throwback version of “Gettin’ Jiggy Wit It” during an appearance…
Rebirth of the Cool: American Music Makes a Return to Iran
TEHRAN — The audience members in Tehran’s Vahdat concert hall rose from their seats, clapping wildly as the frontman Bob Belden, a fun-loving New Yorker with a predilection for loud…
Latino Actors Weren’t Snubbed At The Oscars — But That’s Not A Good Thing
It’s been 14 years since a U.S. Latino actor last took home an Academy Award. No one knows when that will happen again, but it certainly won’t be this Sunday….
Chris Christie in New Hampshire: Bring it on
“There will be times where I will say things that will make you shake your head,” he said. “But what you’ll never say is that I don’t know who he…
Note to GOP: Steer clear of UK
Most recently, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker visited Chatham Housea gorgeous foreign policy study center in Westminster. There he was asked if he believed in evolution or not. Why, I cannot…
Begala: The day Jon Stewart blew up my show
From my perspective, the show that day was a debacle. I was unprepared for the onslaught since Stewart had recently been on “Hannity & Colmes” (Fox News’ truly awful knockoff…
Santorum on tour: Backs vaccinations, opposes Common Core
Promoting their new book, “Bella’s Gift,” both Santorum and his wife, Karen, gracefully worked the sizable crowd with ease, calm and authenticity on Tuesday night. By revealing the challenges and…
Why Obama’s moving past the evening news
Chatter on cable news merely panders to a self-selecting audience, he’s said many times over. Newspaper headlines, he claims, highlight only negative trends while ignoring diplomatic wins and economic gains…
Both ‘Fifty Shades Of Grey’ Sequels Are Coming
Even though its stars seem to have zero chemistry, “Fifty Shades of Grey” will get two sequels, “Fifty Shades Darker” and “Fifty Shades Freed,” both based on novels by the…
Kid Rock: ‘There’s No Winning That Battle’
Talk Interview by JEFF HIMMELMAN – You recently did a tour with $20 tickets and $4 beers. Is it your goal going forward to keep it affordable? Yeah. Even if…
‘Me And Earl And The Dying Girl’ Sweeps Sundance Awards
Sundance breakout “Me and Earl and the Dying Girl,” a quirky, heartfelt story about a pair of high school film lovers who befriend a girl with cancer, won both the…
Calling female designers! Join CNN on International Women’s Day
We asked our audience, our journalists and our partners around the world to select the quotes by women that inspire them. We’ve been inundated with quotes — and now we…
‘Lionboy,’ a Fairy Tale Set in a Dystopian Future
The Disney feline that has bestrode Broadway for well over a decade has a lot going for it, obviously, but at “Lionboy,” playing a few blocks south at the New…
As Last Paid Editors Depart, Modern Farmer’s Future in Doubt
Modern Farmer, the quirky 100,000-circulation quarterly and website that tried to link effete urban farmers’ market culture with the practicalities of actual farming, became a magazine without an editorial staff…
This Is Why Everyone Is Talking About ‘Mommy’ Director Xavier Dolan
Xavier Dolan may be 25 years old, but the French-Canadian filmmaker already shares two things with cinema legend Jean-Luc Godard: the 2014 Cannes’ Jury Prize and an audience erupting into…
The Mooch: Deflation ‘Death Star’ firing lasers at the economy
“Erm, that’s kind of dramatic,” responded Harvard economic professor Ken Rogoff, trying to calm things down. But his words were hard to hear over the delighted laughter of the Davos…
Season Your Inner Nerd With Lord Of The Rings Salt And Pepper Shakers
Calling all Lord of the Rings fans, you can now re-write the epic trilogy while having dinner at your very own dining table. As many times as you like. Every…
Macklemore ‘pops some trash’ on Sesame Street
Though the Sesame Street version parodies Dumpster diving as a fetid way to thrift of sorts, the lyrics like “I’m going shopping / Looking for some rubbish” are decidedly cleaner…
Brand new Congress, same four problems
In his talk, he criticized the President’s response to Russia’s takeover of Crimea, asking the group “Does anybody think that Vladimir Putin would have gone into Crimea had George W….