Topic: queen latifah

10 Things I’m Not Sorry I Missed While Away On Vacation

10 Things I'm Not Sorry I Missed While Away On Vacation

So I just got done with two weeks of traveling around Europe, during which time I read nothing but various leftist newspapers that my boyfriend would leave lying around our couchette as we took romantic train rides to and fro across the land. As you can imagine, the first thing I did when I got back to civilization was catch up on all the important news I missed, like what Kim Kardashian has been up to. To my extreme shock and awe, many of these things were dumb, worthless and/or otherwise utterly missable. Here are ten news items I’m not sorry I missed while visiting all of my international comrades. More »

Queen Latifah Goes Back Into The Closet

Queen Latifah Goes Back Into The Closet

After Queen Latifah performed at a Long Beach Gay Pride event, the internet was full of speculation that the long-rumored lesbian had finally decided to publicly come out. The singer and actress told the audience she was proud to be among ‘her people’, encouraging the crowd to ‘conquer hate with love’ and ‘let their inner light shine on the world’. Pretty standard stuff for a Pride event, right? Well she also finished up by saying, “I’ve been waiting to do this for a long time.” Is Queen Latifah finally coming out? Well, no. More »

Celebrity Reading List: 15 Celeb-Written Children’s Books

Celebrity Reading List: 15 Celeb-Written Children's Books

Last week we discovered that celebrities like to write novels. But you know what they like to write even more than novels? Children’s books! And what better way to introduce your wee ones to the hilarity of celebrity culture than with these 15 kid’s books penned by the likes of Ricky Gervais, Julianne Moore, Bob Dylan, and Perez Hilton? Here’s what I want to know: When is the Britney Spears children’s book about haircare appreciation happening? More »

Gallery: Celebrities Dressed as Beloved Disney Characters

Gallery: Celebrities Dressed as Beloved Disney Characters

There’s something, dare I say, magical about the Disney Dream Portrait series, where photographer Annie Leibovitz reimagines well-known celebrities as memorable characters from our favorite animated movies. Disney has just released three new images, featuring Olivia Wilde, Penélope Cruz, and others. I’ve also included as many as I could find from the original series (released in 2008), in case you didn’t get to see them the first time around. More »

Crush This: ‘Robin Hood’, Rom-Coms Rule This Week

Crush This: 'Robin Hood', Rom-Coms Rule This Week

Welcome to Crush This, your weekly guide to what’s new in movies, music and TV. We’ve navigated the inner reaches of our entertainment-obsessed brains in search of all the pop culture landscape has to offer. This week, we’re getting into the summer movie season in earnest, with big releases like Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood with Russell Crowe in the lead role and romantic comedies Letters to Juliet and Just Wright. And don’t miss this week’s season finales of some of your favorite TV shows like Vampire Diaries — especially if they haven’t been renewed by the networks yet. More »