What does it mean to create new life when one parent is dying?
For couples who confronted grim diagnoses before the turn of the millennium, the option to preserve their fertility was much harder to find and less likely to succeed. But the...
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‘Simpsons’ producer says the show rejected Donald Trump’s request to voice a character
Donald Trump has always been quick to boast that he usually gets what he wants. But when the real estate developer and TV celebrity once asked the producer of "The...
A white artist responds to outcry over her controversial Emmett Till painting
When American artist Dana Schutz decided to paint the mutilated face of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old African American boy who was tortured and lynched by two white men in 1955,...
Mariah Carey’s ‘All I Want for Christmas Is You’ is becoming a movie, and we have questions
If you thought you could escape Mariah Carey's infectious holiday standard "All I Want for Christmas Is You" just because it happens to be March, you're wrong. The Christmas-dominating pop...
Why both of the Oscars accountants won’t be back next year
Three days after a spectacular error marred the final moments of the 89th Academy Awards, the president of the film academy declared that the two PricewaterhouseCoopers accountants responsible for the...
Chris Matthews is America’s greatest champion of ‘Love Actually’ — so we watched it with him
On a crisp morning in the waning days of a punishing year, Chris Matthews sits in his office at MSNBC's Washington studios, sharing his thoughts about "the politics of life,"...
Mila Kunis writes a livid letter about Hollywood sexism: ‘I’m done compromising’
In a scathing open letter this week, Mila Kunis condemned a Hollywood producer who threatened her when she refused to pose semi-nude -- and joined a rapidly growing list of...
Why stop at Channing Tatum, merman? Here are other female roles we’d like to see men play
When news broke Monday that chiseled It-boy Channing Tatum would play a merman in a gender-swapping remake of the 1984 hit movie "Splash," a lot of people got very excited....
‘He’s picking his nose’: How volunteers help the blind ‘see’ a theater performance
On the brightly lit theater stage, the first scene of Robert Schenkkan's Tony award-winning play "All the Way" is in full swing: President Lyndon B. Johnson is pontificating behind a...
25 years ago, ‘Thelma & Louise’ was a radical statement; sadly, it still is
It's been 25 years since Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon hit the desert highway in "Thelma & Louise," Ridley Scott's rollicking road flick that dared to put women in the...