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Ellen DeGeneres Celebrated in D.C. as Winner of Mark Twain Prize for American Humor
On Monday night, Ellen DeGeneres took to the red carpet inside Washington D.C.’s Kennedy Center dressed in her trademark blazer, sweater and slacks. She had...
Ellen DeGeneres Addresses Anti-Gay ‘One Million Moms’ Group
Ellen DeGeneres has publicly responded to the anti-gay group “One Million Moms,” which recently called for JCPenney to remove the openly gay talk show host as...
Ellen DeGeneres Fans Fight Anti-Gay Group Over JCPenney Gig
An anti-gay group has launched a campaign to remove Ellen DeGeneres as JCPenney’s spokesperson because she’s “not a true representation of the type of families”...
Michelle Obama Bests Ellen DeGeneres in Push-Up Contest
Ellen DeGeneres should have known not to challenge Michelle Obama to any sort of fitness competition. The woman is seriously in shape.
Homeless Science Whiz Gets State of the Union Invite, Scholarship from Ellen DeGeneres
After becoming a semifinalist in a prestigious national science competition, a homeless Long Island teen has earned an invitation to the State of the Union...
Ellen's Pooch Problem — and Ours
From her sobbing, you'd have thought state child welfare agents had just removed adopted children from Ellen DeGeneres's home. But the buckets of tears the...
Ellen DeGeneres: The Bravest Comedian In Show Biz
Hearing from her appearances on talk shows that Ellen DeGeneres considers me an influence in her early stand-up fills me with a great deal of pride. When I was...
Q&A Ellen Degeneres
Ellen DeGeneres has been cast as God in a remake of the 1977 George Burns film Oh, God! But the comic will stay down-to-earth for her talk show, resuming Sept...
TELEVISION: LOOKING FOR AN OUT
Ellen DeGeneres made the rounds of the hipper talk shows last week in what appeared to be the coyest exercise in trial ballooning since Colin Powell's book tour...
TELEVISION: ROLL OVER, WARD CLEAVER
Different media have different thresholds for scandal. Controversy in the movies might mean making a film that glorifies one of the nation's most repugnant...
TELEVISION: ELLEN DEGENERES: YEP, SHE'S STILL GAY
It's the oldest problem in show business: What do you do for an encore? Last spring Ellen DeGeneres, the star of the ABC comedy Ellen, revealed that she was a...
How Sesame Street Counted All the Way to 1 Billion YouTube Views
The popular children's show has become a hit on YouTube by staying current with pop culture trends.
Charlie Sheen to Fugitive L.A. Cop Killer Christopher Dorner: “Call Me”
The former "Two and a Half Men" star reached out to the suspected LAPD cop turned murder suspect
Anti-Gay Group Slams JCPenney’s Over Father’s Day Ad
Here we go again. Just a few months after anti-gay group One Million Moms launched a campaign to remove Ellen DeGeneres as JCPenney’s spokesperson because of her...
Milestones
DIED Horst Faas, 79, Pulitzer Prize--winning war photographer, who as an editor for AP published two of the most brutal yet iconic photos of the Vietnam War...
Maybe Shoppers Don’t Want ‘Fair and Square’ Prices After All
At some level, all shoppers know that a game is being played in every aisle of every store. Original prices, weekly promotions, clearance racks, coupons, Black...
JC Penney and Ellen, Lowe’s and All-American Muslim: A Tale of Two Bigotries
The contrast between how Ellen and All-American Muslim were treated shows that, once viewers make friends with another group on TV, bigotry becomes bad business...
Not So Fast.
When Daniel Radcliffe introduced Saturday Night Live musical guest Lana Del Rey on Jan. 14, most viewers probably wondered who she was. An online starlet thanks...
