The headlines these days can make you want to crawl back into bed with wine milk and cookies, and a new episode of Ghost Whisperer (hello, my Friday night), but this one on Variety.com just hit me especially hard: Sesame......

The latest in the curious case of a 23-year-old dude just doin' his best to jumpstart a ferocious appetite: Eight people who partied with Michael Phelps have been arrested because one of them attempted to sell that damn bong on......

In an admittedly shameless act of self-promotion, hip-hop mogul Diddy has offered New York mayor Michael Bloomberg a $1 million charitable donation to change the color of the Times Square New Year's Eve ball to blue, matching the one on......

What is this s---? American Girl has revealed its 2009 Doll of the Year: a contemporary tween with the not-a-real-name "Chrissa." I know I'm out of touch with toys these days, but I liked my American Girls a little more......

Mike Fleiss, creator of The Bachelor, has signed an exclusive eight-figure development deal with Warner Bros. TV, Variety reports. "Despite the hard times in our business, you know the kind of shows we produce will continue to be produced," he......

One of my favorite laughably awful aspects of Oxygen's mean-girls-in-a-house series The Bad Girls Club is the completely shameless orchestration of two-percent-baked "plots." During the day, there are no bars or clubs for the bitch brigade to get thrown out......

My heart sank when I read here that Alex Cox is planning a sequel to Repo Man (his second, if you count the recent comic book follow-up), a movie to be called Repo Chick, which will not include the characters played by Emilio Estevez (left) and Harry Dean Stanton but will include a more blunt and po...

I had heard about Isabella Rossellini's new role as a "insect-sex (insex?) advocate" on Sundance's educational Green Porno series, but it wasn't until a friend sent me a link to the website — which has posted the short films for streaming — that I really got uncomfortable. (And of course had to ...

As our Hollywood Insider blog has reported, negotiations between the Screen Actors Guild and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers are not going well. With the June 30 deadline approaching, the media coverage will be increasing. Today, for instance, The Hollywood Reporter  has...

Ever get pissed at one of those "In order to love you, I have to let you go" endings? (See: The Bodyguard. There's no reason that Whitney Houston and Kevin Costner couldn't be together since he's no longer protecting her, and we've already suspended belief enough to see them together in the first pl...