• acting

    Can Jon Hamm Become A Movie Star?

    Oh, swoon. Just when we thought we couldn't like him any more, Mad Men star Jon Hamm has to go and do a guest-spot on funniest show ever 30 Rock. As a potential love interest for Liz! So that's pretty great. He ably hosted Saturday Night Live last weekend, so we're confident he'll bring the funny. Is this guy on track to be the next George Clooney or what? He's charming and amiable but stern at times, has rugged good looks, and a relaxed but assured masculinity. He's got it all! Or does he... More »

    11:41 AM on Fri Oct 31 2008
    By Richard
    13,295 views, 97 comments

    Most discussed Winston Smith: He should play Superman in a re-boot of the franchise. more »

  • Listicle

    5 Celebrities Who Really Hate the Paparazzi

    Actor Tobey Maguire has had another confrontation with the ever-dogged paparazzi, this incident ending in bloodshed. Apparently, his friend punched some photographer and was hauled off to jail. This is the second such outburst for the Spider-Man star, but he's not the only one to lash out at the wicked, prying photogs and their gaggle of flashing lights and inane questions. After the jump take a took at five other celebrities who have stood up and barked "No!" at the insidious rabble. More »

    3:13 PM on Mon Oct 13 2008
    By Richard
    7,351 views, 19 comments

    Most discussed KarenUhOh: I've met the kid in the Dillon video. He's a pud. A well-spoken, energetic little rascal. But a pud. more »

  • Listicle

    Cosmo Elects Johnny Depp Sexiest Man in the World

    Cosmopolitan (I'm assuming the British version because Gordon fucking Ramsey made the list too) says that 21 Jump Street star Johnny Depp—who's also in movies—is the hottest male on earth. Usual suspect George Clooney is runner up. And (what?!) Jake Gyllenhaal comes in third place. Gyllenhaal? Like, from Bubble Boy? The rest of the list after the jump. Spoiler alert: Manshark Michael Phelps didn't make the cut. More »

    6:38 PM on Sun Oct 12 2008
    By ian spiegelman
    4,256 views, 73 comments

    Most discussed Ogiri W Surie: And, why didn't Jamie Lee Curtis make the list? (Jab Ian) more »

  • new establishment

    The 50 Biggest Losers

    Vanity Fair's annual new establishment rankings—a highly subjective guide to status within editor Graydon Carter's universe—has always been more interesting for the losers more than the winners. The magazine's arbiters are too tactful to dole out many down arrows to the moguls, financiers and stars on the list; but the rankings themselves can't be fudged. Here's a list of last year's and this year's contenders ordered by the number of places they've fallen. (Those who've been dropped entirely are assumed to have been relegated to 101st place.) More »

    5:40 PM on Wed Sep 3 2008
    By Nick Denton
    6,934 views, 20 comments

    Most discussed PandoraSpocks: I'm still celebrating that the Coen Brothers made the top 100.And I hear Denton can get us all into the more »

  • celebrity science

    The Obama Celebrity Cabinet

    Dave Matthews, Kanye West, and Sheryl Crow are all performing like monkeys for VIPs in Denver this week. Also expected to be skulking around Denver this week are Ben Affleck, Josh Brolin, Annette Bening, Spike Lee, Anne Hathaway, Susan Sarandon and Charlize Theron, according to AFP. Oh, and Bruce Springsteen and Jon Bon Jovi are performing before and after Obama's acceptance speech, at that stadium! Soooo many celebrities! Because America loves its celebrities, except that it also despises and resents them. More »

    4:43 PM on Mon Aug 25 2008
    By Pareene
    5,855 views, 65 comments

    Latest by Stirge: Is that Gwyneth Paltrow on the far left as secretary of labor? If she's in Obama's cabinet, he gets my more »

  • advertising

    George Clooney Gets Women Drunk For A Mere Kiss

    Did you know that in the UK it's actually illegal for liquor companies to imply that their product will help you achieve “seduction, sexual activity or sexual success"? Crazy, right? But the byproduct is that even George Clooney—the sexiest man alive (according to women or whatever)—has to play like a good boy in his European ads for Martini vermouth. Oh, he's so couth. He just wants to twirl that fake mustache and meet you later on to get to know the real you. Don't believe the hype, ladies; he can't love you like a blogger can. Scoff at his act, after the jump: More »

    4:50 PM on Fri Jul 18 2008
    By Hamilton Nolan
    3,347 views, 18 comments

    Latest by brionity: @TheMac: Hehe. I am. I'm just not techie in my aesthetic. Could you give me a cut and paste sort more »

  • celebrity science

    Steve Guttenberg's Many Lies, Dates And Drinks

    Actor Steve Guttenberg's insane interview in today's Observer kind of creeps up on you. In the beginning, you're thinking he's an amusing 1980s movie star with a bit of a chip on his shoulder about his faded fame. A once-deferential maitre'd is depicted shoving the actor aside to make way for Tom Cruise, "and I'm like, 'Holy fuck.'" A 120-year-old club for actor types sparks in Guttenberg's head the status-anxious thought, "Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, who cares? ...it's like time, the great equalizer.” Guttenberg is shown haunted by the memory of his peers shunning John Travolta when it seemed he'd never live up to Saturday Night Fever again. The actor says, referring to his dating exploits, "the Goot is on the loose," and you figure he must have been making a joke. But then he starts sounding weirder and weirder, and maybe kind of like a jerk, and the next thing you know he's talking about his compulsive drinking, lying and womanizing. More »

    8:16 AM on Wed Jul 16 2008
    By Ryan Tate
    14,454 views, 92 comments

    Latest by zkemeny: @VoxPopuli: I never thought I could be traumatized more by The Goot™ than I was by Police Academy 4, but more »

  • on beauty

    Matt Damon Joins Fat Actors Prestige Club

    Good Will Hunting actor Matt Damon has been spotted sporting some packed-on pounds while filming the movie The Informant. His character is, I guess, supposed to be just a "regular guy," meaning his abs aren't toned and washboarded and he maybe eats a cheeseburger every now and then. As actresses tend to ugly up their faces and put on prosthetic noses and teeth to get serious acting cred, it seems that actors often have to let themselves go in the waistline. I'm sure that says something about standards of beauty for men vs. women, but that's a whole exhausting topic that ends with yelling and a lot of Betty Friedan quotes. So instead we'll take a look, after the jump, at seven other guys who bulked-up for movie roles, with some mixed results. More »

    2:12 PM on Wed Jun 25 2008
    By Richard
    19,905 views, 87 comments

    Latest by SeeingI: Matt Damon? I thought it was Murray Hill! more »

  • gossip roundup

    Smothered Clooney Finally Free

    • Yes, George Clooney is single again. Ex-girlfriend Sarah Larson was "sweet" but "they had little in common." More revealing: she moved so much crap into his house during their brief relationship that he has to move out while she hauls it all away. [In Touch]
    • Kate Hudson is making Owen Wilson depressed again, this time by running around with Lance Armstrong. Wilson's drinking. [OK!]
    • Naomi Campbell was charged in connection with her Heathrow meltdown, in which she went after two airport cops: Three counts of assulting a constable, one count of disorderly conduct and two counts of threatening or abusing cabin crew. The supermodel faces up to six months as the vicious ruler of whatever jail they put her in. [BBC]
    • Supposedly rehabbed Kirsten Dunst is looking "wobbly" at a bar. Sigh. [Rush & Molloy]
    • Drunk-driving starlet Mischa Barton is running away from everyone, dropping out of press events in Cannes and London. [P6]
    • Apparently Harrison Ford never married Calista Flockhart. It's so easy to lose track. [Hollyscoop]
    • Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz are officially reproducing. The musicians said they wanted to wait until the end of the first trimester to announce. And, you know, until after the wedding two weeks ago. [People]

    9:53 AM on Thu May 29 2008
    By Ryan Tate
    2,061 views, 30 comments

    Latest by Tacobelle: Why would someone overtake another's home?larson-cloonWas she homeless when found?Did she take the fairy dust too? more »