Another fab book meme, this one pinched from Claire. 1) Which book do you irrationally cringe away from reading, despite seeing only positive reviews? Any political biography or autobiography. I find Bill Clinton interesting and I've had his autobiography for years, but I can't bring myself to pick it up. 2) If you could bring three characters to life for a social event (afternoon tea, a night of clubbing, perhaps a world cruise), who would they be and what would the event be?

?He?s Just Not that Into You? A big ensemble cast inlcuding Jen,?Ben, and Scarlett?highlight this new romantic comedy? Watch the ?He?s Just Not that Into You? trailer at trailerspy.com Scheduled release: October 24, 2008 Starring: Ginnifer Goodwin, Scarlett Johansson, Jennifer Aniston, Jennifer Connelly, Ben Affleck, Drew Barrymore, Justin Long, Kris Kristofferson, Bradley Cooper, Kevin Connolly Genre: Romantic Comedy Plot: The Baltimore-set movie of interconnecting story a

Oh, I know this is small and incidental and fluffy and who cares, but a reader sent this in Thursday morning and it stuck in my craw and it's the day before a holiday weekend and so why not get a little ruffled over some stupid coverage of celebrity sex lives? In the recent tabloid brouhaha about the "possibly ending but no one really knows because no one really knows them" demise of Madonna's marriage to Guy Ritchie, ABC News Thursday morning published this uplifting little item

Co-op City: The Bronx's new, fairly speedy bus-only lane spanning from here to Inwood seems to be working, with one watchdog's ride cut down from the old 65 minutes to 48. Not bad! But some dumb-ass delivery trucks are still clogging the lane. [Streetsblog] East Harlem: Behold this very long story that repeats the same point about eleven times: The riverside Target store set to open next year (in a new complex also including a Best Buy, Marshalls, and, possibly, a Costco) will attr

Derober has an interesting feature on "6 Crazy Hollywood Stories You Probably Haven?t Heard," which are amusing and interesting enough, but the one that caught our eye and the most probable one given all we've learned about Bill Murray lately. You'll recall his recent divorce news in which he was accused of a serious ill-temper problem (beating his wife) and the fact, very-much like his surly 'Life Aquatic' character Steve Zissou, he enjoys the doobage and going on many an offshore

In a wicked critique of an ad for the World Food Programme, Cause-Related Marketing envisions a BS-laden speech by an "artsy creative director" ... We'll put actresses like Rachel Weisz Drew Barrymore in PSAs, in print ads and on Oprah. Imagine stark, beautifully-shot images of Drew feeding darling doe-eyed kids in Kenya in haunting black and white. The images will underscore that issue of hunger in the Developing World is black and white... See: Keep Artsy Creative Directors

We've noticed some of Hollywood's finest wearing some of our favorite trends for summer, so we just had to point them out! First of all, you can never go wrong with a flowy white sundress. Paris' white frock is tres chic, so it's no wonder that Halle Berry was spotted wearing the same dress several days later! Other leading ladies have followed suit, including Kim Kardashian and Kate Hudson. This is where the next trend comes in - a white dress or a neutral-toned outfit needs a spla

Guess the 4th of July Beach Body! 2 hours 14 min ago by PopSugar 22,349 Views - 18 comments Every year, the 4th of July holiday gives our favorite stars a chance to hop in a swimsuit and head to the beach. What better way to get ready for the long weekend than by testing your knowledge on what bikini celebrities wore while celebrating in years past? Take our quiz and try to match the beautiful bodies with their famous faces. For more fun quiz action, check out all of our Pop

Greetings, everyone. Here comes the wandering column interested in taking the temperature of arthouse film releases. Well, if there's no doubt my colleague Shrykespeare is in the middle of a season where every week brings its "columning challenge" (Iron Man! Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull! The Dark Knight!), the story is different for your humble host, as I have to dig deeply to find, once in a while, an independent film taking a chance at confronting the summer

A Quickie: Wall-E (Some Spoilers) Just got back from Wall-E. This movie is so sweet almost everyone in the audience cried out when they thought the roach (Wall-E?s bestfriend) was dead, and people who live in roach territory know there is nothing cute about roaches. This movie?s premise is a little bit over the top in its execution but not in its point which is simply that the more consumption driven society is the less sustainable our lives will become. The film is replete with

What could make a film about women's roller derby that stars Ellen Page and is directed by Drew Barrymore even cooler? Think hard. I'll give you a second. OK, time's up. Have you gue

Helena Bonham Carter Joins Terminator: Salvation I am beginning to look forward to the new, re-imagined Terminator Trilogy set to begin in 2009. In addition to Helena Bonham Carter, who is rumored to play a small but pivotal role, we have Christian Bale, one of my new favorite actors, and Bryce Dallas Howard, an alluring redhead who brought to life the lovely but doomed Gwen Stacy of my misspent youth reading comic books. Somehow or another McG has managed to assemble a fine cast th

What do Marcia Gay Harden, Kristen Wiig, Juliette Lewis and Zoe Bell have in common? They are mixing it up with Ellen Page and Drew Barrymore in the roller ring. Barrymore is set to play Page?s teammate the roller derby comedy Whip it! ?She?ll then skate behind the camera between takes to make her feature directorial debut. Go Drew!! Harden plays a domineering ex-beauty queen who prefers to see her daughter, Bliss (Page), in pageants than skates. ?Wiig (?Saturday Night Live?) play

This is where we take all the pop culture news of the day, strip out all the extraneous hoobah surrounding it, then shove it into a burrito and hand it to you. Eat it. It's delicious. X-Files fanatics take note: really, really good actress Gillian Anderson is going to be in a production of Ibsen's A Doll House in London next spring. Start saving your pennies now. I hope the new movie makes lots of money for her sake if nothing else. Have you seen The Mighty? Damn, she's good.

I still feel stupid about it, but the first Charlie?s Angels movie actually caught me by surprise. I enjoyed it, I thought it was fun, lighthearted and Crispin Glover rocked in it. Now, everyone knows that the sequel completely sucked, so it?s for the best that Bill Murray wasn?t there to reprise his role as Bosley. I?ve heard several explanations gives for why he wasn?t there? but while surfing around the web this evening I came across this: Bill Murray and Lucy Liu didn?t get alo

Meet Paul Balthazar Getty, a married actor who is rumored to be having an affair with Sienna Miller. See his biography, photos and video here. Balthazar Getty and Sienna Miler have been spotted on what News of the World and other media outlets are saying are secret dates. Being that Getty is married, the two are reportedly trying to keep a low profile. Balthazar Getty Biography Balthazar Getty is a 33 year old actor, who was born in Tarzana California, on January 22. At the age

Saturday night found me ? where else? ? on a crowded dance floor, surrounded by fourteen-year-olds. Yes, it was multistake dance night. Youth dances are a memory that years of effort have only partially managed to repress. Ahh, those moments, my back to the cultural-hall wall, asking myself impossibly angsty questions like, ?is she looking at me?? Fifteen years later, M. and I were returning to the scene of some of my most excruciating teen memories ? this time, as chaperones. I

More Ladies are Ready to 'Whip It!' by Monika Bartyzel Jun 30th 2008 // 2:02PM Filed under: Comedy, CastingAt the beginning of this year, there was news that Drew Barrymore and Ellen Page were setting their sights on Whip It! -- a flick about snarky chicks, toughness, and roller derby action. It sounded like a whole wackload of fun. The rumored March start date came and went without a sound, but now, luckily, things are on track for this summer. Even better: The Hollywood Reporter po

There are a lot of Hollywood stories out there that fact or fiction, have lived on for a long time. The following are six stories that you might not have heard, but appear to be true: Behind the Scenes of Basic Instinct Basic Instinct grossed over $350 Million and made Sharon Stone a household name. Basic?s writer, Joe Eszterhas wrote a tell-all book about the film Hollywood Animal in which he writes of Sharon: (Stone) was so despised by co-workers that on one of her films,

We have news today about Drew Barrymore? s roller derby comedy Whip It! We get the saucy scoop from our friends at comingsoon: Marcia Gay Harden, Kristen Wiig, Juliette Lewis and Zoe Bell are joining Ellen Page and Drew Barrymore in Whip It!, the Mandate Pictures? roller derby comedy that marks the feature directorial debut by Barrymore. The Hollywood Reporter says Harden plays an overbearing ex-beauty queen who would rather see her daughter, Bliss (Page), in pageants than ska