A gunman police shot to death after he took hostages at Discovery Channel's headquarters said he hated the company's shows because they promoted population growth and didn't do anything to help the planet.
Nicolas Cage has reached a settlement in dueling lawsuits with his former business manager that will keep potentially embarrassing details about his lifestyle and lavish spending out of court.
Bristol Palin may be ready to dance on the upcoming season of 'Dancing with the Stars', but she won't be slipping into any of the show's famously skimpy costumes.
In his long awaited memoir, Tony Blair says he cried for soldiers and civilians killed in Iraq even though he doesn't regret invading the country to topple Saddam Hussein.
Season eleven of 'Dancing with the Stars' will include the mother of 'The Brady Bunch', a former NFL quarterback, 'Jersey Shore' star Mike Sorrentino and the daughter of Sarah Palin.
Levi Johnston, the father of Sarah Palin's grandson, says he wishes he hadn't apologized to the former Alaska governor because he's "never lied about anything."
An AIDS activist group has filed a complaint against Larry Flynt, accusing the porn king of creating an unsafe environment for his adult film stars by not having them use condoms.
Days after Simon Cowell's British singing competition 'The X-Factor' came under fire for using vocal enhancement processes to make contestants sound better, 'American Idol' producers want it to be known that they've never used the technique.
'The Amazing Race' host Phil Keoghan says while he would like to eventually do the celebrity edition of the show that fans are always asking about, the logistics of the race make it difficult to accomplish.
A 'Scott Pilgrim vs. the World' fan has created a trailer for the flick using footage from 'The Matrix' trilogy, while keeping the audio from the original trailer.
The producers of 'X Factor' have admitted to using vocal enhancement processes after thousands of fans noticed contestant's pitch and off-key notes had been corrected.
A week after going on the attack against Jennifer Aniston for suggesting that a woman didn't have to settle down just to have a child, Bill O'Reilly is now setting his sights to Kim Kardashian and Justin Bieber.
Betty White, Neil Patrick Harris and John Lithgow were among the winners at the Creative Arts Emmy ceremony that is a precursor to the main event next weekend.
Janice Dickinson doesn't believe Tyra Banks is sincere in her apology for using a girl with the 'smallest waist' to promote the upcoming season 'America's Next Top Model'.
As if a wearing a polka dot tie with a checkered shirt wasn't bad enough, Chris Harrison also sported a combination of brown and purple on this week's 'Bachelor Pad'.
'American Idol' producers remain tight-lipped about rumors that Steven Tyler will join the show's judging panel, but Aerosmith bassist Tom Hamilton says the gig is already a done deal.
Jennifer Aniston says she was taken aback when Bill O'Reilly attacked her for suggesting that women didn't have to settle with a man just to have a child.
Dr. Laura Schlessinger, who recently apologized for repeatedly saying the N-word to a caller on air, says she will end her radio show when her contract is up at the end of this year.
Just a few days after returning home from a fishing vacation with his sons, Mel Gibson is uninjured after crashing his sports car into a Malibu hillside.
Reality TV star Tila Tequila is complaining that audience members pelted her with stones and bottles during an outdoor music festival in southern Illinois.
Laurence Fishburne's 18-year-old daughter, who has decided to enter the world of adult films by releasing her own sex tape, says she's always known what she wanted to do.
A Houston Astros fan has earned the nickname 'The Bailer' after he jumped out of the way of an incoming baseball and let his girlfriend get hit instead.
CBS has announced the twenty castaways that will be on 'Survivor: Nicaragua' this season, and two-time Super Bowl winning coach of the Dallas Cowboys and current Fox NFL Sunday commentator Jimmy Johnson is on the list.
Days after Wyclef Jean confirmed his plans to run for Haiti's presidency, Sean Penn stopped just short of saying the musician was taking advantage of the situation.
During Will Ferrell's appearance to promote his latest movie, 'The Other Guys, he and Fallon reminisced about a little soap opera they shot together many years ago called 'Jacob's Patience'.
Wyclef Jean officially announced his bid to be president of Haiti to a roaring crowd of supporters on Thursday, thrusting himself into a race to lead the country still reeling from a devastating earthquake.
Charlie Sheen won't be going to jail. The 'Two and a Half Men' actor was sentenced Monday to 30 days in rehab, after pleading guilty to misdemeanor third-degree assault charges.
In her first interview since Mel Gibson's rants against her were leaked on to the internet, Oksana Grigorieva tries to explain why she taped their conversation in the first place.
When CBS debuts 'The Talk' this fall, with a panel of six celebrities talking about modern motherhood and life, it will have its sights clearly set on 'The View's daytime audience.
Valerie Bertinelli says losing 40 lbs. helped her slip into a bikini, nearly three decades after she last wore a two-piece, but there's one thing that didn't change.
To promote the UK premiere of 'Knight and Day', Cruise and Cameron Diaz made an appearance on the BBC's 'Top Gear' to race Kias in a segment called 'Star in a Reasonably Priced Car'.
Kings of Leon are used to getting showered with adoration and the occasional female undergarment. But on Friday night, they became familiar with a whole different kind of fanfare.
One of the best moments at the 'Green Lantern' panel this weekend was when a young boy asked the film's star, Ryan Reynolds, what it was like to say the superhero's oath.
The Virginia man who warned 'South Park' that they risked death for an episode that showed prophet Muhammad in a bear costume, has been arrested for his attempts to join the Al Qaeda-linked terrorist group Al-Shabab.
After accepting the first woman linked to Tiger Woods to compete on the fourth season of 'The Celebrity Apprentice', Donald Trump has changed his mind.
After playing a prostitute in the Lifetime movie 'The Client List', Jennifer Love Hewitt says she understands why some women turn to selling their bodies for a living.
ESPN reporter Erin Andrews, who was secretly videotaped nude, has filed a lawsuit against seven hotels and the suburban Chicago man who admitted to making the tapes.
Spanish singer Enrique Iglesias is ecstatic his home country finally won its first World Cup -- even if it means water skiing nude in front of the entire city of Miami.
A Michigan couple has been found guilty of trying to extort $680,000 from John Stamos by threatening to sell old photos of him with strippers and cocaine to the tabloids unless he paid up.
Sometimes there's a fine line between excitement and lunacy and this guy experiences both in the matter of a few minutes after he witnesses a double rainbow.
Jewel, disguised as a mild-mannered businesswoman, drops by a local karaoke bar and performs some of her classic songs to a completely dumbfounded audience.
A woman charged with conspiring to bilk actor John Stamos of hundreds of thousands of dollars says she had a brief romantic fling with him when she was a 17-year-old.
Mel Gibson has been dropped by his talent agency of more than 30 years after a clip of the actor using a racial slur and calling his ex-girlfriend a 'whore' leaked out.
After getting blasted by fans for making out with Eddie Cibrian with her bikini-clad bottom in his young son's face, LeAnn Rimes says she doesn't want to listen to any more criticism.
The Prestonsburg, Kentucky golf course has been emblazoned with a topless photo of Ashley Judd on a poster that mocks the actress' outspoken opposition to mountaintop removal mining.
A week after Mel Gibson's N-word tirade against former girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva leaked out, the actor is being investigated over a possible domestic violence incident between the two.
CNN has fired Octavia Nasr, an editor responsible for coverage of the Middle East after she posted a message expressing admiration for a cleric who was widely known as an ally for Hezbollah.
A jury has awarded the creators of 'Who Wants to Be a Millionaire' $269.2 million in damages because they didn't receive their fair share of profits from the popular game show.
After hearing it from some fans who are growing tired of seeing LeAnn Rimes and Eddie Cibrian kissing in public, the singer says they shouldn't hold their breath for an apology.
Jason Segel's appearance on the 'Tonight Show' may have been just another day on his busy calendar but it will forever be remembered by Abbe Thorner and Jason Wood.
Jake Pavelka and Vienna Girardi's first interview together following their split hit the ABC airwaves last night and the meeting was definitely just as 'emotionally charged' as promised.
Japan's public broadcaster has cancelled its television coverage of a sumo tournament after a gambling scandal that has sullied the sport's reputation.
A judge has ordered band 'Men at Work' to pay a portion of the royalties from their hit 'Down Under' after ruling that it was copied from a campfire song.
After Melissa Etheridge filed to formally end her nearly nine-year relationship with Tammy Lynn Michaels on Friday, the 'L Word' actress says she was 'blindsided' by the move.
After his bizarre tirade to police about Jews during his drunken-driving arrest, Mel Gibson said he was ashamed of his behavior and entered rehab. The conviction was eventually expunged from his record.
Judges hearing the case of former Liberian President Charles Taylor have subpoenaed supermodel Naomi Campbell to testify, despite her repeated refusals.
Jeremy London has filed for an injunction against his mother and twin brother demanding that they stop giving interviews, which he claims are hurting his reputation and career.
When 'Big Brother 12' premieres next week, contestants of the reality show will have to deal with a another level of treachery as a 'saboteur' lives among them.
After more than two decades of interviewing newsmakers in primetime, Larry King has announced that he will be stepping down from his nightly CNN show this fall.
Rapper Method Man of the Wu-Tang Clan pleaded guilty to a tax evasion charge on Monday after failing to pay income and personal taxes to New York State between 2004 and 2007.
David Letterman has booked Gary Faulkner, the American man detained in Pakistan while on his own mission to kill Osama Bin Laden, for Monday night's show.
Jay-Z didn't appear too pleased last night when David Letterman told him that LeBron James should stay with the Cleveland Cavaliers because he wouldn't have any better chance of winning with the New Jersey Nets.
Lindsay Lohan has been ordered to provide more details about the 2007 car chase that landed her in jail, including specifics about her drug use at the time.
When kindergarten through fifth grade students return to class at in Provincetown, Massachusetts, they will be able to ask the school nurse for free condoms.
According to an ancestry website, Robert Pattinson is related to 15th-century Transylvanian leader Vlad III Dracula, aka Vlad the Impaler, who is widely cited as the inspiration for Bram Stoker's Dracula.
A mini-tent city is growing outside the Nokia Theatre in downtown Los Angeles as fans camp out to make sure they see tomorrow's premiere of 'Twilight: Eclipse'.
Even though 'Deadliest Catch' Capt. Phil Harris couldn't speak in his final days, he reminded his sons to keep filming to provide viewers a conclusion to his story.
Sony has released the first trailer for Michel Gondry’s big screen adaptation of 'The Green Hornet' starring Seth Rogen, Jay Chou, Cameron Diaz, Christoph Waltz and Michael Pena.
'Toy Story' was the favorite plaything for moviegoers as the animated feature returned to the box office for a third installment with a $100-million-plus opening weekend.
Soon after Heidi Klum stripped down to her underwear and got her groove on for 'Guitar Hero', there were reports that supermodel Marisa Miller would soon be doing the same for Activision.
Craig Ferguson's puppet Shark took over 'The Late Late Show' last night to announce that the comedian would be hosting Discovery Channel's popular 'Shark Week'.
Not wanting to change anything from their Game 6 win, the Los Angeles Lakers have invited back Christina Aguilera to sing the national anthem for the deciding game.
Ellen DeGeneres, who is in Chicago to tape her TBS comedy special 'Ellen's Somewhat Special Special', decided to drop by the NBC 5 news station -- while they were broadcasting the 5 o'clock news live.
Katy Perry has never been one to shy away from attention and it appears to be working -- her latest single 'California Gurls' is currently the top song on the Billboard Hot 100, making it all the way to the top in just four weeks.
Michael Jackson's doctor, Conrad Murray, will not have his medical license revoked during the run up to his trial for involuntary manslaughter over the pop icon's death.
A man accused of stalking Ryan Seacrest was sentenced Monday to two years in state prison and ordered to stay away from 'American Idol' host for 10 years.
Legal documents signed by Gary Coleman in 2006 have revealed that the actor specifically stated that he did not want anyone to pull the plug on him, in the event he was incapacitated.
'Harry Potter' isn't the only feature that will be broken down into two parts, Summit Entertainment has announced that the next installment of its vampire romance 'The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn' will be released as two films.
In an interview with 'The Los Angeles Times', Courteney Cox reveals that while filming 'Friends' she and the rest of her female co-stars had the same lunch everyday for ten years.
During Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference in San Francisco on Monday, Steve Jobs attempted a demo to show off the new iPhone but things didn't go exactly as planned.
At the MTV Movie Awards on Sunday night, Sandra Bullock made sure her first live television appearance since she split with husband Jesse James was a memorable one.
Shannon Price says she took Gary Coleman off life support after he suffered a brain hemorrhage because she didn't want to see him left in a vegetative state.
Miley Cyrus is standing by her risque 'Britain's Got Talent' performance, in which a leotard-clad Miley simulated a lesbian kiss on stage to 'Can’t Be Tamed'.
