Hollywood celebrities, political bigwigs and journalists shared dinner and laughs last night at the 2013 White House Correspondents' Dinner. Conan O'Brien hosted the evening but the highlight of the night was the 20 minutes President Obama joked about himself, the second term, Republican leaders, and even Jay-Z.
Hometown hero, Will Smith and a long-time friend have come to the aid of West Philadelphia high school, which was targeted by computer thieves in February.
Over the last three months, living in a chilly tent on the roof of a vacant South Side Chicago motel, Rev. Corey Brooks kept up his vigil against gun violence. On Friday, he was triumphant after a pledge of $98,000 from filmmaker Tyler Perry provided the final push for reaching the pastor's goal of raising $450,000 to buy and demolish the decrepit motel, a haven for drugs and prostitution.
Phyllis Diller, the first woman to make it big as a comedian, was an American pioneer. She created a stage persona of a wild-haired, eccentrically dressed housewife. She made self-deprecating jokes about her age and appearance, her terrible cooking and housekeeping, and her fictional husband named Fang. She died peacefully in her sleep, her longtime manager said, with a smile on her face. She was 95.
Christian Bale answered the Bat-signal this week for a 4-year-old cancer patient who wished to meet his hero. Jayden Barber wanted to meet the real Batman, so friends and family organized a Facebook page in hopes of attracting Bale's attention. The 38-year-old actor answered the call and earlier this week flew Jayden and his entire family out to Disneyland for an intimate lunch.
Christian Bale, the hero in the latest Batman film, The Dark Knight Rises, on Tuesday visited victims of last week's mass shooting in a Colorado theatre where the movie was premiering.
New York Universtiy alum Alec Baldwin, whose home in the Lower Manhattan neighborhood also lost power on Tuesday, walked room-to-room lifting the spirits of students who had been evacuated from their dorms earlier that day. The 30 Rock star also had been quietly helping his neighbors, like the elderly in his building who couldn't use the stairs.
Stars from Hollywood to Virginia are pitching in with money and their time for helping New York and New Jersey recover from Hurricane Sandy. A celebrity auction has even been launched to accept bids on exciting opportunities to rub elbows with the stars.
George Clooney has once again shown himself to be the perfect gentleman. Fearing that he and his party had been too loud while dining at the Grill Royal restaurant in Berlin, the actor picked up the $120 tab for a nearby table.
As a boy, Wendell Pierce dreamed of leaving his hometown one day for the world stage. Today, the veteran actor with global credits has returned on a mission: rebuilding neighborhoods, brick by brick, aisle after aisle.
After the finale of Friends in 2004, Matthew Perry has been in and out of rehab programs trying to overcome addiction to alcohol and pain medication. Now sober, Perry is on a mission to help other addicts find a path to recovery.
The Ellen Show has followed in Oprah's path to become daytime television's second 'angel network'. Sometimes with help from corporate partners like JC Penny or Target, Degeneres frequently features a deserving family or person with an incredible story and gives them the surprise of their lives. Here are four great 'De-generous' moments.
The eve of the fourth anniversary of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, Sean Penn's friends came out to support his Haitian relief organization's 3rd annual Help Haiti Home gala. Stars like Goldie Hawn, Julia Roberts, Gwyneth Paltrow and Penn's new girlfriend, Charlize Theron, helped him raise six million dollars in a single evening.
High school senior Alisa Finely from Kansas was diagnosed with stage 4 brain cancer. Finey created a bucket list and her #1 wish was to kiss actor Channing Tatum. The Hollywood star found out about it and posted a video he recorded especially for her on his phone.
Actress Amy Poehler showed off her kind side when she gave up her first class-seat on a flight from Los Angeles to New York to a mother with an infant. Amy headed for an aisle seat in coach.
Macaulay Culkin, the former child movie star of the Home Alone films, apparently tweeted this photo of himself creating a meta "Inception" moment with Ryan Gosling. You gotta love it!
The book The Happiness Project is in development to become a new NBC TV show based on the best-selling memoir by Gretchen Rubin about her year-long quest to find ways to become happier person.
The 86th Academy Awards will be a celebration of movie heroes, the producers announced this week. The theme for the March 2 live broadcast, hosted by Ellen DeGeneres, will honor big-screen real-life heroes, like "Gandhi" and "Erin Brockovich," as well as super heroes and animated heroes, both past and present.
In this delightful family movie based on a true story, a family of gray whales, stranded beneath the ice near the northern-most Alaskan town of Barrow, brings together old foes in an inspiring rescue operation that catches the attention of the whole world.
Comedic genius Jim Carrey is one of the world's biggest names in entertainment, having starred in films like Liar, Liar, Bruce Almighty and won Golden Globes for Man on the Moon and The Truman Show. Now, add children's book author to his varied list of credits. His self-published book, How Roland Rolls, about a young ocean wave who is afraid of hitting the shore, will be available on book shelves and e-readers September 24. Carrey wanted to help kids feel safer and not so alone by offering them the notion that all life is interconnected through the metaphor of a wave as part the ocean.
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