Archive | December, 2011

Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber and George Clooney better have received something nice from Santa this year, because they certainly weren’t on his naughty list. Those three toplined DoSomething.org’s Top 20 Celebs Gone Good, the organization’s annual roundup of the most charity-friendly stars in the business.

This is Gaga’s second year in a row at the #1 spot. In 2011 she dedicated much of her time to putting an end to bullying and even started a new charitable organization called Born This Way. The “Marry the Night” singer did plenty more to help out those less …

Ben Affleck’s a man of action now, isn’t he? A few years ago, his career relegated him to romcom barf fests like “Gigli” and “Surviving Christmas.” Not anymore — he’s built up plenty of critical momentum and box office success through gritty dramas like “Gone Baby Gone” and “The Town,” enough to allow him to take on more heady roles, like next year’s “Argo.”

That’s the one where he’s a CIA operative posing as a member of a film crew in order to rescue diplomats who’ve been taken hostage, all in 1979 Tehran. The movie …

It’s almost that time to ring in the new year, and what better way to do so than with MTV? “NYE in NYC 2012″ will air live at 11 p.m. ET on Saturday from Times Square, hosted by Demi Lovato and Tyler Posey of “Teen Wolf.”

Also on hand to count down will be some of music’s biggest stars, including J. Cole, Mac Miller, Selena Gomez and Jason Derülo, who will be performing in our Times Square studios.

“I cannot think of another way to bring the new year in than with MTV.” Derülo told …

There are a lot of movies in the world, some of them even very good. It’s a hard task keeping track of all of them, but that’s what big government is for — specifically, the Library of Congress’s National Film Registry, which every year selects a list of films deemed worthy of preservation. For everyone but the most arduous cinephile, it’s a mix between films known and films obscure, the stuff we’d like to tell our kids about assuming Western civilization doesn’t collapse in the near future.

This year’s list stuck to the script, as …