Outside the Beltway

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

Daily Show host Jon Stewart spent 15 minutes on yesterday’s Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace trying to explain why he thinks Fox is a propaganda machine.

Where’s the line when a public figure interacts with a teenage fan?

James Arness, best known as the iconic Marshal Dillon on Gunsmoke, has died at 88.

Broadway actors are aiming a familiar lament at Hollywood stars: They’re taking our jobs!

Congress is getting complaints that calling the Osama raid “Geronimo” is offensive to Indians.

Zsa Zsa Gabor’s 67-year-old husband says he and the 94-year-old actress are seeking to have a child through a surrogate.

James Franco is a film director, screenwriter, painter, author, performance artist and actor. And working on a PhD at Yale.

Mike Huckabee channels Dan Quayle when he decides to comment on the pregnancy of Oscar winner Natalie Portman.

After five days of nonsense, President Obama’s address in Tucson last night struck exactly the right tone.

Shania Twain has married Frederic Thiebaud, former husband of Marie-Anne Thiebaud, the woman Twain’s ex-husband Mutt Lange had an affair with.

The editors of the Washington Post want you to know that “Fair Game,” the new movie about the Valerie Plame affair, is “Hollywood myth making.” Propaganda and lies is more like it.

A new survey shows that political ideology leads to different television viewing habits. This shouldn’t be surprising.

Peggy Noonan argues that Tuesday’s elections shows that Americans want to be led by accomplished grown-ups and will reject people who seem empty or crazy.

Jonah Goldberg has written a bad column. In this case, an op-ed in the Chicago Tribune headlined “Why is Assange still alive?”

Changing economic realities led to a role reversal: television is where you turn for smart entertainment, whereas the movies have become lowbrow.

Responding to the rant that got Rick Sanchez fired, Slate’s Brian Palmer investigates the question, “Do Jews Really Control the Media?” His short answer, “Maybe the movies, but not the news.”

The Obamawood Squares Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

The writer of the infamous “Fonzie Jumps The Shark” episode of Happy Days breaks his silence.

President Obama’s motorcade caused gridlock in the Los Angeles area last night, although one wonders how people could distinguish it form the average Monday.

The secret to getting big traffic on the Internet is to target bored office workers and crazy people.

Jon Stewart and “Senior Black Correspondent” Larry Wilmore eviscerate Maxine Waters’ claims that she and other corrupt members of the Congressional Black Caucus are being investigated for ethics charges because she’s black.

Is Google manipulating its search results to keep competitors down? And does its market dominance mean the government should step in?

Marvel Comics is suing the estate of its second most famous figure in order to keep the rights to its most lucrative properties.