Glee, Lea Michele and Chris Colfer
The Glee waiting game is over. At least a little. When announcing Fox's 2012-2013 TV schedule, entertainment president Kevin Reilly finally gave Gleeks a glimmer of what Season 4 will look like following the New Direction seniors' graduation. Instead of selfishly making Rachel (Lea Michele) and Kurt (Chris Colfer) hang around McKinley next year like Lima losers, the show will follow the duo to a performing arts school in New York — where they'll run into the likes of Kate Hudson and Sarah Jessica Parker — while also still keeping up with New Directions. But will the show be able to pull it off? We look at why this approach may or may not succeed...
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Gwyneth Paltrow and Amanda de Cadenet
Lifetime's The Conversation breaks every conventional rule we know about celebrity interviews.
On the series, which premieres Thursday at 11/10c, A-listers like Gwyneth Paltrow, Lady Gaga and Eva Longoria open up to host Amanda de Cadenet about issues we rarely see them address elsewhere: death, drugs, body image, relationships and their sex lives.
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Gwyneth Paltrow
It might not be the most dramatic change in hair color history, but Gwyneth Paltrow debuted a new two-toned style on Friday in Los Angeles.
The actress, who tends to play it safe with her platinum-blond locks, has...
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Gwyneth Paltrow, My Father's Daughter: Delicious, Easy Recipes Celebrating Family & Togetherness
Did Gwyneth Paltrow actually write her cookbook?
That's the big question after The New York Times reported that the Oscar-winning actress used a ghostwriter to pen her first cookbook, 2011's My Father's Daughter.
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In the story titled "I Was a Cookbook Ghostwriter," published Tuesday, Paltrow's book was included in the main photo with a caption reading: "Gwyneth Paltrow's ghostwriter is Julia Turshen." In the piece itself, it said that Turshen is...
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Beyonce and Jay-Z
Beyoncé and Jay-Z welcomed a daughter Saturday in New York, the couple confirms in a statement obtained by E! Online.
"Hello Hello Baby Blue! We are happy to announce the arrival of our beautiful daughter, Blue Ivy Carter, born on Saturday, January 7, 2012," the 30-year-old singer and 42-year-old rapper said in a joint statement Monday. "Her birth was emotional and extremely peaceful, we are in...
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Gwyneth Paltrow
Gwyneth Paltrow and Tia and Tamera Mowry are among GQ Magazine's Least Influential People of the Year.
Paltrow, who came in at No. 16 on the list that "salutes the great artisans of utter uselessness," was chosen for spending most of 2011 performing on awards shows, promoting her blog Goop, and releasing an "awful cookbook."
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Gloria Estefan
An international superstar might be moving to Lima Heights Adjacent.
Grammy winner Gloria Estefan is in negotiations to guest-star on an upcoming January episode of Glee, EW reports. She'd play the mother of Santana (Naya Rivera), who recently came out of the closet. Santana claimed that her parents -- unlike the disapproving abuela we've already met -- were supportive of her.
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Glee
Ryan Murphy's got a plan for Glee this year. It includes a full-time writing staff and a focus on stories over artist tributes. He even knows how it all ends for the McKinley High School seniors (though not all of the kids in New Directions are seniors.)
"The season ends with the core group, with many of them graduating and figuring out what their futures are," Murphy told reporters Thursday after a screening of the Season 3 premiere. After acknowledging that he made the mistake of prematurely talking about which actors he thought about writing out after graduation — "I've learned my lesson! I'm never doing that again!" — Murphy said he's refocused.
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"I have my passion for it back," he said. "Things took a bit of a nasty turn and now I feel great about it again." No word on who is coming or going, you'll just have to wait and see where things end up in the finale. And that spin-off you heard about is still on the shelf — and if resurrected, it might not be what you thought (originally, it centered on Rachel and Kurt making a go of it in New York.) "I don't know what it would be and I don't know who would be on it," Murphy said.
But let's talk about this season already! Spoilers from the premiere and beyond... read at your own risk:
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Contagion
Steven Soderbergh's virus outbreak thriller Contagion fittingly topped what was a pretty sickly weekend box office.
The film, which stars Matt Damon, Laurence Fishburne, Gwyneth Paltrow and Jude Law, pulled in $23.1 million, according to Box Office Mojo. That was enough to topple three-time champ The Help, which fell to second place with an additional $8.7 million (for a total of $137 million after five weeks).
All told, the box office gross for the weekend's top 10 films was only $66.4 million, the lowest weekend gross this year....
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Steve Buscemi
A sign of things to come? Boardwalk Empire won a leading seven awards at the Creative Arts Emmys.
HBO's freshman drama took home statuettes Saturday night for casting, makeup, art direction, editing, visual effects, sound editing and cinematography. Game of Thrones and Mildred Pierce were also among the HBO programs recognized, bringing the cable channel's total tally to 15 wins.
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Boardwalk, which has already earned Golden Globes for the show and leading man Steve Buscemi, could do even more damage at next weekend's prime-time Emmy Awards, where the show looks to keep Mad Men from being named Outstanding Drama Series for a fourth consecutive year.
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