Goodbye to Nora Ephron.

She was 71. In the late 1960s Ms. Ephron turned to magazine journalism, at Esquire and New York mostly. She quickly made a name for herself ...

Streep as Thatcher.

The new trailer:

"The pearls are absolutely non-negotiable."

Exiting through the door marked 2007.

The NYT Magazine has its annual "Lives They Lived" issue , with short essays on a wide range of individuals who died in the past y...

Oscar nominations...

Did you watch the announcement live? I did. Poor Salma Hayek was devastated that "Volver" didn't get a Best Foreign Language F...

"Effort to 'Humanize' Clinton Is Underway."

That's the hilarious teaser on the home page of the Washington Post, leading to this article . The effort to "humanize" Clinto...

Golden Globes!

Hey, watch the Golden Globes with me! Comment away. I'll be adding to this post, with each update indicated by a number. 1. And they sta...

Simulblogging the Oscars.

7 (Central Time). A slow-moving intro for Jon Stewart, showing Oscar hosts of the past declining to re-host. We see Billy Crystal and Chris ...

"American Idol" -- songs of the past few years.

The "theme" tonight is songs of the past few years, and with only six contestants left, we're going to while away the extra mi...

Day three.

My summer Conlaw class, after three days, is actually already one-sixth of the way through (not counting the exam day). It's been intere...

The Manchurian Hillary/Streep.

Fly on the Wall reports: Paramount Pictures is worried that Meryl Streep's edgy, chilling performance as a U.S. Senator in The Manchuri...

Howard Dean will have his own talk show. (Cheap humor: scream show.) I'll believe it when I see it--where's Clinton's talk show...

TiVo lifestyle. The TiVo website also provides officially downloadable "lifestyle images," and here's one of them. Possible fi...