This is the best video I could find of Jennifer Aniston and Jack Black presenting the award for the Best Animated Film at last night’s 81st Oscars. Proving that we as a public are still fascinated by the Brangelina vs. Jennifer Aniston saga, the show presenters panned to Jolie during the prese...

I used to be way into the Oscars.  I know oodles of Oscar history.  One of the best birthday presents I've ever received was the 60 Years of the Oscar. Tom and I used to throw Oscar parties for years in Chicago and out here in LA.  But, over the past few years, my interest has ...

It's human nature to label things, to mentally organize your surroundings.  This is safe, this isn't, etc.  The problem is when you attach this to people. Human beings tend to be far more complex than a simple tag or label.  Like any adult, I view myself as several things a...

My episode of Bones is on tonight on Fox 8pm/7pm CST. I play a nerd at a sci-fi convention, and I have one line, which ends a scene.  Pay attention and I'll totally make you laugh....

Last week, I had two auditions and two callbacks, both for commercials.  I was put on avail for one of them last Thursday. Usually, you get notice about an avail within two days.  Today, Wednesday, after pestering by my agent, I finally found out I didn't get the commercial.  B...

When I first moved out here to Los Angeles almost 10 years ago, I was being managed by Evil Swine.  He had a small group of actors and we would hang out together a good deal. We'd do casting director workshops together, help Evil Swine with some office stuff, give each other lots of suppor...

When I was a wee little lass and considered becoming a famous, ahem, celeb blogger, I would read all the gossip rags fervently, but one of my favorite guilty pleasures was the “Blind Item” pieces. It was always a fun challenge to try and figure out which celebrity knucklehead was caught ...

newVideoPlayer("/Bush_Babs_awk.flv", 506, 423,""); Neither the White House nor Barbra Streisand were much inclined to release a proper photo of the beloved entertainer kissing beloved soon-to-be-former president Bush at the Kennedy Center Honors yesterday, so America will have to make due with these...

Aren’t we all ready to move on from the Brad, Angelina, Jennifer saga? Clearly Brad Pitt Angelina Jolie, and Jennifer Aniston are not. So here we go again. As we reported two days ago, Jennifer Aniston is quoted in the December issue of Vogue as saying she thought her ex-husband’s curren...

Every postmodernist worth his or her salt knows Don DeLillo's award-winning novel White Noise, and its chief technological horror. But a merry band of dark indie poppers from Los Angeles' fertile Silver Lake hood has adopted The Airborne Toxic Event as its own, in order to communicate bleeding-heart...