Buzzfeed’s Matt Stopera posts some Facebook updates from people who, for some reason, could not tell Oprah Winfrey and Whitney Houston apart. This one is may favorite: I’m really not sure what to say.

Whitney Houston, once one of the biggest stars in American popular culture, has died.

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Was Clint Eastwood’s Chrysler ad a political message, or just a well done commercial?

This week we learned that even breast cancer can become politicized. Is there anything that can’t at this point?

One wonders why any Republican politician would want to be associated with this image.

Virtually everything Stephen Colbert is doing was legal before Citizens United.

The DC government’s incompetence knows no bounds.

Soul Train’s Don Cornelius has been shot to death. He was 75. CNN (“Coroner: ‘Soul Train’ founder dead of gunshot wound“): Don Cornelius, the founder of “Soul Train,” has been found dead in Los Angeles, Lt. Larry Dietz of the Los Angeles County Coroner’s Office said Wednesday. He died of a gunshot wound at a [...]

Stephen Colbert’s super PAC, Americans for a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow, has raised a little over a million dollars.

Shockingly, Paula Deen, the morbidly obese woman who fries Twinkies on television, has diabetes.

Tim Tebow has been at the center of a culture war battle, but he seems to have a more balanced view of the whole thing.

Cee Lo Green caused on New Year’s Eve by changing the lyrics of Imagine from “And no religion, too” to “And all religions true.”

The trailer for the next Batman movie, “The Dark Knight Rises,” is out.

Andrew Sullivan‘s posting of Team America’s depiction of a puppet Kim Jong Il singing “I’m So Ronery” naturally sent me to look for other snippets from the flick. Apparently, I’m not the only one. NY Daily News (“‘Team America: World Police’ surges as Twitter topic following Kim Jong Il’s death“): The death of Kim Jong [...]

The constantly changing face of Superman, the iconic comic book superhero, over the 73 years since he debuted in Action Comics #1.

Fareed Zakaria thinks we’re wasting too much time playing Angry Birds.

Rolling Stone’s “100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time” for 2011 is much different than their “100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time” for 2003.

I was reminded this afternoon on Twitter that it was 33 years ago last night  that The Star Wars Holiday Special aired for the one and only time. It was, well, you’ve probably heard the stories by now. And here it is, including commercials. I had honestly forgotten the thing was two hours long. Then [...]

William Shatner loves deep-fried turkey, but over many Thanksgivings and Christmases he’s made mistakes, burned himself, and nearly burned down his house. In this dramatic retelling, Bill shows us how dangerous turkey fryers can be.

A trailer for Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr. Fox using dialogue from Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds

A new report from the General Accounting Office reveals that a number of very wealthy people who have next to nothing to do with farming as a profession are nonetheless receiving farm subsidies: Wealthy celebrities including Bruce Springsteen, Jon Bon Jovi, Quincy Jones and Ted Turner have received federal subsidies, according to “Subsidies of the [...]

Rick Perry’s “oops” moment may have closed the door on his presidential ambitions but it has opened the window for a promising career as a comic.

Paul Hsieh dubs this, “by far the best 2-cello version of “Welcome to the Jungle” that I’ve ever heard.”

The producers behind MTV’s Jersey Shore have a new idea: Imagine Sean Hannity and Rachel Maddow living in the “Jersey Shore” beach house with a bunch of rowdy friends of all political persuasions. That’s the idea behind the reality show “Party Politics.” Doron Ofir Casting, the Hollywood-based agency behind the eponymous “Jersey Shore” and “Millionaire [...]

Rick Santorum says Saturday Night Live is bullying” him  for “standing up for the traditional family.”

Herman Cain sings an ode to pizza to the tune of “Imagine.”

Breaking news: There’s a gay man in Hollywood.

Robert Downey, Jr. goes out on a limb for Mel Gibson, returning a favor.

Marvel Entertainment has done a brilliant job of building up to the Avengers movie since Samuel L. Jackson’s cameo as Nick Fury at the end of the first Iron Man movie in May 2008. Now, they’ve released a trailer: It looks true to the current vision of the Marvel universe, at least the movie version: [...]

Despite his apology yesterday for comments equating the President and Hitler, Hank Williams Jr. and his rowdy friends will no longer be asking if America is ready for some football: Having pulled his iconic Monday Night Football introduction song following his comments on Fox News comparing President Obama to Hitler on Monday, ESPN has announced [...]

Hank Williams Jr. has offered an apology for calling the Obama administration “the enemy” and comparing the president to Hitler:

As James Joyner noted earlier today, Hank Williams Jr. raised more than a few eyebrows when he referred to President Obama and Vice-President Biden as “the enemy,” among other things, on Fox News Channel this morning. This afternoon, the other shoe dropped: “While Hank Williams, Jr. is not an ESPN employee, we recognize that he [...]

Jon Stewart describes how “The Daily Show” comes together while wearing a 1st Cav baseball cap. “The best shows are made of the smallest moments,” says Stewart. “Donald Trump eating pizza with a fork, and making that into eight minutes of a completely overblown sanctimonious rant on the apostasy of eating pizza with a fork.”

Country music legend Hank Williams, Jr. is not a fan of the current administration.

Dirk Benedict, who played Lt. Starbuck in the classic Battlestar Galactica, with Katee Sackhoff, who played Kara “Starbuck” Thrace in the modern Battlestar Galactica, in a Starbucks coffee shop.

Every episode of every live action Star Trek series is now free for streaming from Amazon.

The treasurer behind “Rick Parry with an ‘A’ for America” has left to work with Rick Perry

Not that there’s anything wrong with that.

Watching the news and reading the op-eds makes it clear: America is doomed.

Marvel has created an alternate universe in which Spiderman is a half-black, half-Latino teenager. Some people are angry.

Kurt Vonnegut on teaching a computer to write a story.

Fascinating exchange from the late 1970s.

TMZ (“Amy Winehouse Found Dead“): Amy Winehouse was found dead in her apartment in London today … this according to several reports. A press release from the Metropolitan Police, which doesn’t specifically name Winehouse, says: “Police were called by London Ambulance Service to an address in Camden Square NW1 shortly before 16.05hrs today, Saturday 23 [...]

What I find amusing is less that there is going to be a new version of Dallas (the mega-hit 1980s prime time soap), but that it made the front page of the BBC News page:  New Dallas series given go-ahead. Of course, as I recall, the show was quite big in Europe (especially Germany).

More people are chasing careers in film than there are careers in film. And not just in front of the camera.

It’s often said that 1950s sex symbol Marilyn Monroe was a size 12. It just isn’t so.

Ann Coulter explains why she’s not a fan of the late Princess Di: “”I find it a little baffling when Americans get so gaga-eyed over a princess. In particular Lady Di, who was just this anorexic, bulimic narcissist.”

The Stephen Colbert Super PAC that began as a satire has now been blessed by the real FEC. What exactly this means is not yet clear.

Is it worse for a child to see pornography or graphic violence?