Jen Chung

Mickey Rooney, whose show business career started when he was a toddler and who was the "most famous teenager in America from 1937 to 1944" as movie character Andy Hardy, died yesterday. Even though he was only 5'3", Rooney loomed high as a movie star during the 1930s and 1940s. Besides his Andy Hardy films, which showed him as a typical girl-crazy, car-crazy teen boy (he romanced Judy Garland in three of them), he also...

Franco writes in the NY Times, 'As an actor and artist I'm inclined to take an empathetic view of his conduct.'

Jay Leno said good-bye to NBC's The Tonight House last night, in an emotional final show. He choked up, telling the audience, "This has been the greatest 22 years of my life... I'm the luckiest guy in the world. I got to meet presidents, astronauts, movie stars… It's just been incredible. I got to work with lighting people who make me look better than I really am… I got to work with audio people who make me sound better than I really do. I got to work with producers," pausing to choke back from tears, "just all kinds of talented people who make me look smarter than I really am."

Fans of Conan O'Brien are already well-acquainted with his one of his show's producers, Jordan Schlansky, an inscrutable gentleman who's been mercilessly targeted by Conan as his "arch-nemesis." Schlansky loves fine food, fancy espresso and Star Wars, sensibilities that O'Brien has viciously skewered in numerous unscripted sketches. Last night, Conan surprised Schlansky with an organization expert—and it was pretty hilarious.

It's time to countdown to Tina Fey and Amy Poehler's second Hollywood smackdown—the Golden Globe Awards are on January 12 and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association just announced the film and TV nominees. And some frontrunners won a lot of nods, while others—like Lee Daniels' The Butler—were shut out. The full list is below, but here's the rundown: 12 Years a Slave and American Hustle both got seven nominations. 12 Years was nominated for Best...

At last night's American Music Awards, Katy Perry opened the show by performing her song, "Unconditionally"—while dressed as a geisha, complete with an elaborate Japanese-style set with cherry blossoms. And the whole thing upset some people. First, take a look:

Former President George W. Bush made a rare television appearance on The Tonight Show last night. Host Jay Leno told Bush, "You look a lot more relaxed." Dubya laughed, "No kidding!" Then he added, "Duh!" Aw, it must have been a lot of pressure ruining the America's middle class while also destroying Iraq. Then Leno asked him how he handled tough moments and decisions. He answered, "You have to believe in what you're doing...I...

Chris Brown at a performance in September (Getty Images) After getting arrested outside a D.C. hotel this past weekend, singer Chris Brown has checked into rehab facility in Malibu, for anger management. Brown's latest brush with the law, which saw him charged with assault (and accused of using a slur), in the nation's capital has very real repercussions in Los Angeles: He could be found in violation of his probation related to beating then-girlfriend...

Today's Google Doodle features sketches of dresses made famous from Hollywood costume designer Edith Head. Head, who won eight Academy Awards and is known for designing memorable dresses seen in All About Eve, A Place in the Sun and many Hitchcock films, would have been 116 today. Head died in 1981, and the NY Times noted in her obituary that her career spanned more than 50 years—"Miss Head, whose bangs, bun, tortoise-shell glasses and two-piece...

Tina Fey and Amy Poehler at the 2013 Golden Globes (Getty Images) Our awards show prayers have been answered! The Golden Globes, the loosest and booziest major back-slapping event around, will be even more watchable for the next two years: Tina Fey and Amy Poehler have agreed to host the 2014 and 2015 broadcasts. So it looks like they must have offended someone—one of Poehler's monologue jokes was, "We want to assure you that...