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We have the perfect storm of scandal, and a new era of media to cover it. A former governor of the most populous state in the United States, and arguably the world's most well known movie star/hero discloses that he has had a child out of wedlock with his loyal wife, who happens to be a Kennedy. Not only is this front page in every newspaper in the world, it's the highest trending story on the Internet and every form of social media.

For years I have been talking to teenagers about personal health issues driven by peer pressure, self-esteem, and bullying. Web Wise Kids, an organization that focuses on educating kids about online safety, provides another opportunity for me to help encourage...

Is there something in the stars that caused Dominique Strauss-Kahn to so publicly self-destruct on 14 May?

Four powerhouse film talents are joining forces to create a Broadway comedy. Will it have four times the laughs? We'll have to wait and see. Actor John Turturro is set to direct Relatively Speaking, a trio of short plays, one...

Holding court at a picnic table outside the studio screening room, Bay, dressed in baseball cap and tee shirt, offered a straight-shooting recap of his career up to and including Transformers: Dark of the Moon.

Here is some advice to Lars Von Trier or anyone else who decides to walk the tightrope of funny. Dude, don't go there. It's just not worth it.

May 19 Happy birthday to guitarist, vocalist and songwriter with The Who, Pete Townshend, born today in 1945 in Chiswick, London.  After repeatedly watching the 1956 film Rock Around the Clock, 12 year-old Townshend was given his first guitar...

Is there a doctor in the house? Bad Religion's Greg Graffin, who earned his PhD in zoology in 2007 from Cornell University, is eschewing the road during the week to teach evolution at his old alma mater this fall, in...

For some men of power, the plantation mentality hasn't changed much in 200 years. For all his sublime gifts and lofty rhetoric, his vision of America as an "Empire of Liberty," Thomas Jefferson, it would appear, fathered some or all...

Sony's attempt to rekindle customer faith after a near month-long service outage seems to lean favorably for Sony, not gamers.

Have you ever heard a piece of music that instantly felt familiar to you, even though you knew you'd never heard it before? I mean the kind of feeling you get when you make a new friend and immediately feel like you've known them all your life.

How does a modern teenager in our over-stimulated, over-scheduled, over-electronic-addicted-judging-bullying-bomb-setting-suicidal-anxiety-ridden society...connect?

When a key character leaves a series there is a level of audience uncertainty about what is to come.