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Whitney & Justin | Don Henley | Oprah Whitney Shows, Justin Doesn’t at Pre-Grammy Bash If the old adage is true — that 99 percent of life is just about showing up — then last night Whitney Houston at least scored some points, while Justin Timberlake failed miserably. You see, …

Tonight, we wrap up a week here in L.A. getting out of town just before the Academy Award weekend. By the way, here are my picks. “The Departed,” Martin Scorsese, Forest Whitaker, Helen Mirren, Alan Arkin, and Jennifer Hudson. But there’s little buzz here about the Oscars largely because there …

A lot of people talk about media bias — the idea that most reporters lean left, as if they suffer from political scoliosis. I have an alternative — some might say brilliant — theory: the mainstream media is biased, but it doesn’t lean left. It leans toward any idea that …

One reason—if not the main reason—we diet and exercise is that we want to look good to the opposite sex (or maybe the same sex). And, of course, one reason—if not the main reason—we want to do that is to be attractive to our (real or imagined) sexual partner. Now, …

I think Americans generally pay more attention to the gasoline they put in their cars than to the food they put in their mouths. We are a society of excess, and one of our more impressive excesses is the way in which we eat and what we choose to put …

The formation of strange flying-saucer-shaped moons embedded in Saturn’s rings have baffled scientists. New findings suggest they’re born largely from clumps of icy particles in the rings themselves, an insight that could shed light on how Earth and other planets coalesced from the disk of matter that once surrounded our …

So Iranian President Ahmadinejad has a new blog and it works in that “senile grandma in the attic” sort of way. But other than realizing how much it sounds like Olbermann, it dawned on me that when the elderly, squirrels and crazed dictators start blogging, then blogging is dead. The …

‘Harry Potter’ | The Police | Warner Music Group | Madonna Harry Potter’ Is Running Out of Magic I don’t read the books, so I can’t tell you if the fifth installment of the series, “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix,” is true to the book from which …

New images obtained by a sharp-eyed Martian satellite reveal that some Red Planet features once thought to have been carved by flowing water were in fact created by other processes. The images were taken during the first 100 days of the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) mission and are detailed in …

Britney Spears | High School Nude-ical | Birkhead’s Birthday Bash | Dumbest Man in America | Your GRRRs | Get the GRRR! Book So much to GRRR, so little time… Britney Flops Britney Spears’ much-hyped “comeback” performance at the MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday will go down in history …