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And yes this is what passes for a gossip column in these parts
7-Dec-2014 · Olivia de Havilland dishes on Gone with the Wind — and is still alive ...
Sony's executive director of information security said in 2007 that the company's use of very weak passwords wasn't a big deal ...
How Miranda Lambert turned Danica Patrick into a country fan ...
Los Angeles cops are investigating complaints about Bill Cosby, even if the statute of limitations has passed ...
The New Republic celebrates its 100th anniversary by firing its editor and skipping an issue after dozens of staffers quit ...
Georgia town bans mosque ...
Beanie Sigel is in critical condition after being shot in the stomach ...
6-Dec-2014 · Tesla's next generation of batteries could take people off the electric grid ...
J. K. Rowling offers more stories set in Harry Potter's world ...
Class action lawsuit alleges that Apple deleted rivals' music from users' iPods ...
Barack Obama's first date with Michelle Robinson is going to be made into a movie ...
Netflix is producing a documentary on Nina Simone ...
US Supreme Court will decide whether the Sons of Confederate Veterans can put the Confederate battle flag on vanity plates in Texas ...
5-Dec-2014 · Court strikes down Florida's requirement for drug testing of welfare recipients ...
Vatican finds hundreds of millions of dollars "tucked away" ...
Spike Lee sees Radio Raheem in unarmed black man killed by New York City policeman ...
Benedict Cumberbatch will star as Doctor Strange ...
Tracy Morgan is walking, slowly and with aid, as his recovery continues ...
Inquiry finds no evidence that Gov. Chris Christie (R-New Jersey) was aware of politically-motivated bridge closure ...
Four new studies show that Obamacare is working well ...
Leaked documents reveal US National Security Agency plans to subvert mobile network security around the world ...
Bill Cosby countersues over alleged sexual assault … Former NBC boss says he never heard any complaints about Cosby's behavior ...
Is the US Patent and Trademark Office stifling innovation? ...
Mark Wahlberg seeks a pardon for 1988 assault conviction ...
James Watson sells his Nobel Prize for $4.76-million ...
Washington DC bans marijuana testing for job applicants ...
Hack reveals that Sony kept thousands of passwords in a folder called "Passwords" ...
Why some Republicans want to cancel the State of the Union address ...
Wages for Americans between the ages of 25 and 34, adjusted for inflation, have fallen since 2007 in every major industry except for health care ...
FBI seizes 20 boxes of documents related to Los Angeles School District's $1.3-billion iPad program ...
Chimp is denied habeas corpus rights in New York ...
University of Nebraska hires football coach Mike Riley from Oregon State University ...
4-Dec-2014 · North Koreans may be behind the huge hack of Sony, in retaliation for the upcoming Seth Rogen film that mocks Kim Jong-un ...
Daniel Craig says Austin Powers made James Bond turn serious again ...
Google offers a better alternative to that annoying and hard-to-read Captcha ...
Slaughterhouse foreman admits trying to circumvent USDA inspection and push tainted meat onto the market ...
Akshay Kumar doesn't endorse six-pack or eight pack abs ...
Bill Cosby drugged my close friend, and then had sex with her … Celebrity lawyer Gloria Allred asks Cosby to waive the statute of limitations and face trial … Cosby says thanks to Whoopi Goldberg and Jill Scott for standing beside him amidst swirling rape accusations ...
Leonard Nimoy notes the 50th anniversary of filming Star Trek's first pilot ...
Melissa Etheridge is marketing "cannabis-infused fine wines" ...
Mike Ditka doesn't want to hear about this "hands-up crap" ...
Kathy Bates has lost her head twice on American Horror Story, but she still wants to come back ...
Protests after New York City cop isn't indicted over chokehold killing ...
How can the TV show Route 66 be rebooted when the highway doesn't even exist any more? ...
Ariana Grande gets smacked in the head by a Victoria's Secret angel wing ...
Backstage with Johnny Carson and Bob Hope on The Tonight Show ...
Hedge fund honcho urges Jim Cramer to take a 70% pay cut or sell the company ...
Tinkerbell shills for Wal-Mart during NBC's Peter Pan ...
The nudge-nudge wink-wink story of Ferguson, MO, and other small towns near St Louis ...
More trouble for AC/DC drummer Phil Rudd ...
Justine Bateman goes to college ...
3-Dec-2014 · US Supreme Court remains completely clueless when it comes to modern technology ...
Jean-Claude Van Damme will play the mentor in a remake of his classic Kickboxer ...
Lawsuit alleges that Bill Cosby molested a 15-year-old girl … Janice Dickinson would appreciate it if Cosby would "at least acknowledge that he is a pig, that he is a monster, and he raped me" ...
Justin Bieber goes skateboarding in traffic ...
US Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) thinks the Republican-controlled investigation that debunked the Benghazi scandal is actually part of the cover-up ...
Britain bans female ejaculation, spanking, and watersports from porn ...
Let Charles Mingus help you with your cat poop problems ...
Arby's sure is sorry for forgetting to include Pepsi in its advertising ...
Chicago City Council raises minimum wage in the city to $13 p/hour ...
Kroll Show will end after its third season ...
Netflix executive is pretty darn excited to have snatched Tina Fey's new sit-com from NBC ...
Judge allows defamation lawsuit against radio wingnut Glenn Beck to proceed ...
Major League Baseball has its first openly gay umpire ...
Explorer sues National Geographic, says they stole his tunnel discovery ...
US Centers for Disease Control calls for circumcision as a defense against sexually-transmitted diseases ...
Nature will make all articles since its 1869 founding available free on-line ...
Mikhail Baryshnikov doesn't care that more people know him from Sex and the City than from dancing ...
Burt Reynolds wants you to know that he's not broke ...
Burger King brings back a sandwich from the 1970s ...
2-Dec-2014 · Physicist Stephen Hawking wants to play the villian in a James Bond movie ...
British politician loses bet, has to say "c*ck" several times in a speech ...
St. Louis cops want Rams players punished for "hands up" solidarity gesture ...
FIFA executive allegedly took a Picasso painting as kickback ...
NBC wants Parks and Recreation to be gone in a hurry ...
We still don't know a lot about what happened in Ferguson, MO, and we probably never will ...
European Union axes top science advisor ...
Chris Rock says talk about racial progress in America is all nonsense ...
Obama administration proposes spending $75-million for police body cameras ...
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak is making a reality show about testing futuristic gadgets hands-on ...
Bill Cosby resigns as trustee at Temple University … One in three Cosby ticket-holders want their money back ...
Kirk Douglas isn't dead ...
Girl Scouts of the U.S.A. will sell cookies on-line ...
Is Rosie O'Donnell about to crash and burn on The View? ...
Christian Bale prefers not to whine about the tabloids ...
McDonald's adds clementines to Happy Meals ...
Lauren Graham might get to fictionally break the late-night glass ceiling ...
Larry The Cable Guy gets dressed for success ...
1-Dec-2014 · Twitter users decode dead uncle's encrypted message ...
Actor from The Young and the Restless is hit by a car and beaten by drunks on Thanksgiving ...
Uruguay re-elects Former President Tabaré Vázquez on pro-marijuana platform ...
Introduce yourself to the insane theory that radio wingnut Alex Jones is really Bill Hicks ...
Mickey Rourke wins an apparently-fixed fight against a homeless guy in Russia ...
Freddie Prinze, Jr undergoes back surgery ...
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman proposes paying Arabs to emigrate ...
Busta Rhymes falls off stage during performance ...
Buyers from China are snatching up San Francisco area homes ...
Ridley Scott and Rupert Murdoch defend casting white people for all the main roles in Exodus ...
Steve Jobs has been awarded 141 new patents since his death ...
Shadowy groups spent millions of dollars on the 2014 US Congressional elections ...
James Watson, the world-famous biologist who was shunned by the scientific community after linking intelligence to race, is selling his Nobel Prize because he is short of money after being made a pariah ...
Analyzing Capt James T. Kirk's stupendous fighting skills ...
Bing Crosby thought of himself as "an average guy who could carry a tune" ...
David Beckham is shaken up in a car crash ...
30-Nov-2014 · New York officials block plans to provide free medical care for the un-insured ...
60-day psychiatric hold is sought for Creed frontman Scott Stapp ...
Canadian thanks the stranger who saved his life in 1949 ...
United Nations condemns torture tactics and police brutality in the United States ...
Germans honor woman beaten to death trying to protect women from harassment ...
Same-sex marriage comes to Finland ...
Charges dropped against former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak ...
Kid Rock helped bring Jason Aldean and Bob Seger together ...
How the FBI screwed over a former hostage of al-Qaeda ...
29-Nov-2014 · Burt Reynolds will sell memorabilia to avoid bankruptcy ...
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings predicts the demise of broadcast television ...
How a schoolteacher helped create the first black Peanuts character ...
Denver cops delete video of police brutality, but it had already been uploaded to the cloud ...
General Mills will stop making false claims that Nature Valley granola bars are "100% natural" ...
Ten things to know about the US Food and Drug Administration's new calorie count rules for restaurants ...
8 ways you can see Albert Einstein's Theory of Relativity in real life ...
28-Nov-2014 · Blind athlete runs tough 46-mile trail in the Grand Canyon ...
Melissa McCarthy will sell a line of big-lady clothes ...
Flurry of sexual assault claims against Bill Cosby is met with crickets in Hollywood ...
Catherine Tate and David Tennant want to work together again ...
Shia LaBeouf says he was raped during his February 2014 "art event" ...
20th Century Fox plans a sequel to Independence Day ...
National Review editor Rich Lowry wants the US Congress to block President Obama from delivering the State of the Union address ...
AC/DC drummer Phil Rudd goes a little bonkers in court ...
Pelé is hospitalized with a urinary infection ...
Russell Brand says he doesn't know who his ex-wife Katy Perry is ... |