Another interview with formerly reclusive Guns N' Roses mastermind W. Axl Rose has debuted on the Internet, and this one is kind of a doozy: It's a lengthy chat that appears on AOL's Spinner between Axl and his longtime confidant/road manager/video-trilogy inspirer Del James. If you think that the e...

Jeremy Piven convinced five other actors his mercury poisoning is real, deadlocking a union hearing and sparing Piven penalties for leaving Speed the Plow. How did he do it? Maybe with some crying. The Entourage star was certainly in tears after the hearing, when he sat for an interview at the offic...

In today's Anna Wintour image rehabilitation news, the Vogue editor is reportedly filmed at yet another charity ball and gives the WSJ an interview. But she called the reporter huge. Whoops! It's so hard to keep the nastier side of your monster-editor personality in check when you go from "no interv...

Wanda Sykes will perform at this year's White House correspondents dinner, the first (we think) openly gay person to headline the 89-year-old event. Change. Unfortunately the White House Correspondents Association event should be as clubby as ever, the press corps eagerly sucking up to the administr...

Isn't it a hoot—an ironic hoot—that Obama press secretary Robert Gibbs has a combatative relationship with the press, even though as we all know the press are all liberals who worship Obama? This is what Gibbs said about the cable news, today: But I mean, you know, I think David talked t...

Did you know that financier Steven Rattner's wife Maureen White, the former national finance chair of the Democratic Party, had a hilarious drunk driving arrest last October? Nope, because no one reported on it! Rattner, a former Times reporter and future Obama appointee (probably), has a wonderful ...

The Rod Blagojevich scandal has dominated several news cycles, so the Obama team seems to have decided the time is right to distance, distance, distance itself from the corrupt Illinois governor.   The Washington Post managed to score interviews with Obama's old political chums in Chicago,...

Security guards shot dead a man swinging samurai swords at the Church of Scientology's Celebrity Center in Hollywood. The fortysomething man with tatooed arms had gone back and forth to his car before getting "close enough to hurt" the security guards. Sure, Tom Cruise's cult has a history of turnin...

newVideoPlayer("/andrea_mitchell_clip.flv", 506, 423,""); Barack Obama's advance staff confused everyone when they told journalists not to wear green during their trip to the Middle East. Obama's staff claimed green is the color of Hamas, which is actually isn't really. Though it is the color of Isl...

After the New Yorker ran its controversial Barack Obama cover satirically mocking smears against the candidate, the presumptive Democratic nominee acted like it really didn't bother him all that much. "It's a cartoon," he told CNN. That seemed very reasonable! But it sounds like Obama was more angry...