entertainment - "celebrities"

Why do universities think students want to hear celebrities make commencement speeches? And do the stars get paid?-Denise, BostonIf you're asking how much Oprah got...

If you were to ask me who Kourtney Kardashian is, and why she qualifies as being a celebrity, I would tell you that she’s the sister of Kim Kardashian, who has her own reality TV show on the E! Channel. Other than that, um, I have no Earthly idea why either one of these ladies [...]

A big complaint among a lot of casual fans of the WSOP is that a large number of the people winning bracelets are about as high profile as the losers who show up on the American Idol blooper reel. While many poker fans love watching new stars arise during the WSOP, you do have that class of people who are like the hockey fans still crying in their beer because Cindy Crosby didn't lift the Stanley Cup this year. In short, they aren't entertained unless a celebrity player is in the mix. While we have had some star powered final tables, those who get most of their poker from their television sets should have been in ecstasy during Event #20.

Last Thursday night, 1.127 million viewers watched Bravo's first shot at an awards show, the A-List Awards, which were hosted by Kathy Griffin. In a press release, the network noted the show's strong performance, saying that '[v]ersus the prior four week time period average,' it 'posted increases of 54 percent among adults 18-49 (663,000 vs. 431,000) and 72 percent among total viewers (1,127,000 vs. 654,000).' What it doesn't mention, however, is that those increases were over the finale of Step it Up and Dance, which aired in the same timeslot last Thursday night and obviously didn't do all that well (as a lack ratings information in its finale press release also demonstrated).I really wanted to like the special show, even though it was one of those awards shows where only the winners show up, and so you know who's going to win in advance because they are in the audience, shown in cutaways, and introduced at the beginning. Worse, the celebrities in attendance were mostly Bravo rea

Christopher Knight will be seen lighting himself on fire for his second week act on the new U.S. competition series Celebrity Circus, ...