The Celebrities Weblog

Backed by Clooney himself, he also has the support of Google and the United Nations. His hopes are that by filming the government led militant attacks on the Southern Sudanese, they will be able to do…

Rachel Maddow, among many other things, hosts, "The Rachel Maddow Show", weekday evenings on MSNBC.

What we have with Rachel Maddow is a combination of a very effective, wry sense of humo…

Republican politicians generally disdain celebrities and routinely refer to anyone in the limelight who opposes their views as "Hollywood Types."

Their reasoning is that celebrities are a …

Say what you will, but the celebrity A List doesn't get any more impressive than the candidates for the two top political offices in The United States, the President and Vice President.

It goes …

Say what you will about gossip columnists but for a while now you're likely to get more accurate news from supermarket rags than the mainstream media.

The 24/7 TV news cycle has devolved into no…

A quick answer to the question of whether or not to put any faith in what celebrities have to say about politics and politicians is: "No more or less than anyone else."

These days, like it…

Hey, Paris Hilton, seen here listening for oil in her backyard, may be smarter than people think, her recently unveiled "energy policy" is at least as viable as is any of the experts'.
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You know you're a star when you steal the show without even being part of it.

That's what happened at the "BET Awards" where the person generating the most interest was the presump…

Even if you're not a fan of politics, certain politicians are always worth watching, for a variety of reasons.

These days I view politicians more as entertainers than anything else because they&…

How's that for a headline, Barack Obama is a distant cousin to Brad Pitt.

Once you get beyond grandfathers and so forth I get pretty mixed up with this "once or twice removed" business…