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Reality is setting in for many in the Baby Boomer generation whose former favorite actress and poster girl is battling cancer. What once was vicarious joy is now vicarious pain, as Farrah Fawcett has spent many of her final days making perhaps her most important television show ever: a special designed to document her battle…

If a friend goes through relationships like toilet paper, would you go to her for relationship advice? If your child-less sibling offers you parenting tips, would you take him seriously? If someone loses their shirt in the stock market, would you let him plan your portfolio? Willie Aames, former star of “Eight is Enough,” “Charles…

Miss California, Carrie Prejean, certainly made ripples a few weeks ago at the Miss USA pageant when she took a stand against gay marriage–whether these were positive or negative ripples she sent outward depends on your politics. And yesterday Donald Trump, the owner of the pageant, decided not to strip Prejean of her crown. Even…

CNN (as well as just about every news agency and tabloid under the sun!) is reporting that Miss California USA Carrie Prejean will be allowed to keep her crown, despite the recent controversies surrounding her title, her contest answer to a politically charged question, and modeling photographs that are showing up on the internet. The…

Over at Entertainment Weekly, a writer is now calling shenanigans on “super-skinny actresses who insist they eat like lumberjacks and never get off the couch.” The hook for this particular declaration is Kate Winslet’s lawsuit against the Daily Mail for libel, stemming from an article that “claimed that the star had underplayed the amount of…

Miss California Carrie Prejean has enjoyed her share of controversy over the past few weeks. From the initial backlash over her stance on gay marriage (as opposed to “opposite marriage) to the release of some sexy photos to her breaking her contract as Miss USA runner-up by lobbying for an anti-gay-marriage group, Prejean now faces…

Have you seen the newest “Star Trek?” If so, you may want to chime in on Time.com’s poll which asks your opinion on the best Enterprise captain of all time. Would you choose William Shatner as Captain Kirk, Patrick Stewart as Jean-Luc Piccard, Scott Bakula as Captain Archer, or Chris Pine in the new J.J.…

The movie version of Dan Brown’s Angels and Demons, opening May 15, follows symbologist Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) in a desperate dash through Old Rome. A secret society called The Illuminati are executing Catholic Cardinals in brutal and meaningful ways, leaving behind clues that point to a coming catastrophe. Langdon must decipher messages left behind…

Nia Vardalos, star of “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” and the upcoming “My Life in Ruins” became a mother for the first time last year when she and her husband adopted a 3-year-old girl. In a People.com essay that ran on Saturday, the actress wrote about the joy of becoming a mother–literally overnight. Shortly after…

This weekend, Terrence Rafferty of The New York Times looks at the tension that flares up whenever faith and cinema clash–“The awful thing about these religious-movie dust-ups is that there’s no resolving them to anybody’s satisfaction, either believers’ or nonbelievers'”–and argues, in his article, “Separation of Church and Film,” that movies like “Angels & Demons”…
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