Golden Globe-nominated Lost star Naveen Andrews has admitted he inadvertantly fathered a child while on a "break" from his girlfriend, actress Barbara Hershey. While Andrews and Hershey were briefly separated last year, Andrews' publicist says, he had a sexual encounter with another woman and recently learned that - surprise! - he's now the father of a baby boy. That's kind of how ...

Hey kids! Do you have mad video skills? If so, hop on over to sister blog Cinematical, where they're running a contest for who can design the best intro video for Cinematical's upcomining daily video podcast from Sundance! You only have until 12 noon on Wednesday, January 11 to get your entry in, so put on your thinking caps and get those creative juices, er, flowing. Or something like that. ...

Our good friends over at Cinematical are reporting that the Oscars, rejected by everyone from Chris Rock (well, to be fair, he wasn't actually asked to host) to Billy Crystal (too busy) to Steve Martin and Whoopi Goldberg, may finally have a real live host....The Daily Show's Jon Stewart! Okay, it hasn't actually technically been confirmed yet, but we knew you'd be as excited as we are to hear ...

Macworld opens January 9 in San Francisco, and rumors are swirling that Steve Jobs will be accompanied by The Simpsons in his much anticipated January 10 Keynote Address. Macenstein predicted awhile back (see prediction #7) that the animated icons would be keynoting with the Apple kingpin as part of an announcement by Apple and Fox they are licensing Fox content, in particular episodes of The ...

It's official: everyone's favorite 2005 nutcase celebrity, Tom Cruise, has generated the "Slang of the Year", awarded by the venerable editors at the Historial Dictionary of American Slang. Cruise's insane couch jumping antics on Oprah earlier this year have netted the top gun of slang terms: "jumping the couch", or "exhibiting strange or erratic behavior". That ...

How much would you pay to get your wedding video back from the hands of evil videonappers? The guys who stole Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony's wedding video thought they'd get a cool mil off the famous couple, but all they're getting for their troubles is some time in the slammer. Apparently the bad guys snagged the video after they found it on Marc Anthony's laptop, which was stolen along with ...

Remember how actor Lillo Brancato (The Sopranos, A Bronx Tale) was involved in the shooting death of Daniel Enchautegui, the off-duty Bronx police officer who attemped to stop Brancato and a friend from burglarizing the house next door? Well, now he's sorry. Really, really sorry. According to a story in the New York Post (registration required), the actor was breaking into the house with Steven ...

Let me start with a confession: I was a huge fan of The Partride Family when I was a kid. I had a Partridge Family lunchbox, I had a massive crush on David Cassidy (and quite a few posters), and Shirley Jones, as the hip family matriarch, along with the ever-sunny Florence Henderson as Carol Brady, were my visions of maternal  perfection. I can't really blame ...

Bo Bice is having a busy time of it lately. He had a new baby boy last month, he had major surgery and then ended up back in the hospital with complications from the surgery, and on top of that, our own Anna Johns thinks he's one cool cat. As if that weren't enough for one guy,  his new album "The Real Thing" is being released, and the singer is ...

Well, it's been a great 36 years, ABC, but, as Jonathon reported the other day, like a middle-aged man with a mid-life crisis dumping his faithful wife for the hot young secretary, Monday Night Football is running off with a new love - ESPN. Tonight's game between the New England Patriots and New York Jets marks the long-running sports juggernaut's last hurrah on ABC. Next season, if you want your ...