Author MichaelLiss

Sean Penn, Jim Carrey and Benicio Del Toro may be appearing as the Three Stooges in an upcoming Farrelly Brothers pic. Variety reports that MGM has signed Penn to play Larry, with negotiations under way for Car...

Colbert Nation may have successfully launched their hero into outer space.NASA recently held an online contest to name Node 3 on the International Space Station. While the top vote-getter of the agency's four s...

When Peter Griffin sang the song "I Need a Jew" on Family Guy, not everyone was amused. The song, which begins with Peter singing out the window while gazing longingly at the nighttime sky, is an arms...

After nailing the intersection of music and young lives in The O.C., it made perfect sense when creator Josh Schwartz (Gossip Girl) announced a Web-only series for the WB.com that would take place completely in...

Bob Dylan's 33rd studio album is set to drop next month. Together Through Life will follow up 2006's Modern Times, his first album to hit #1 since 1976 and first ever to debut there.Dylan began the record when ...

Heeb came up just a wee bit short in a media trivia night earlier this week. The event was round two of a series of nerdy sporting contests sponsored by Saucony Originals.The stakes were high, with Team Heeb co...

The Israeli modern dance troupe Batsheva Dance Company has been met with protests during its North American tour. Currently performing at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, a BAM spokewoman said a "small group...

Blogging. It's not just for those pesky kids anymore. Now even retired dictators are getting into the act.Apparently Fidel Castro is now padding a resume already stuffed with revolutionary and el presidente. A ...

Sarah Silverman may be quitting her own show over a budget dispute with Comedy Central. She and the series' other two executive producers are holding out on agreeing to participate in the third season of The Sa...

Javier Bardem traded barbs with Penelope Cruz in a Woody Allen film and Cruz got herself an Oscar out of it. Now Antonio Banderas is set to be the next Spanish actor to join a Woody ensemble.The still-untitled ...

Jane's Addiction have announced they're releasing a box set titled A Cabinet of Curiosities this spring. The three CD, one DVD collection includes unreleased demos from as far back as 1986, live tracks, unedite...

The subjects of Philip Roth's next two novels have just been announced. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt says it will release The Humbling this fall and Nemesis in 2010, Roth's 30th and 31st books.According to the pub...