Why Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi’s Marriage Was Meant to Last

E! News/August 16, 2018 For Portia De Rossi, being in the presence of Ellen DeGeneres was like a love song come to life. “She took my breath away,” de Rossi recalled of running into her future wife at a 2004 photo shoot in an interview with The Advocate a year later. “That had never happened to me in my life, where […]

All She Has: How Jennifer Lopez Set a New Bar for the Modern Superstar

E! News/August 19, 2018 “Watch me.” In a trailer for her upcoming comedy, Second Act, Jennifer Lopez‘s character, a grocery store clerk, confidently tells a doubting boss just that when he insinuates she can’t get a new job because of her age and stature. In a clear moment of art imitating life, the sentiment is just as […]

There’s Something About Mary Turns 20: Inside the Debate Over Cameron Diaz’s Infamous Hair Gel Scene

E! News/July 15, 2018 It was 1998. Bill Clinton was in the midst of a history-making scandal involving Monica Lewinsky. Jaden Smith had just been born. Shawn Mendes had not yet been born. Google was months away from being formed. And Cameron Diaz was winning over audiences all over the country in a romantic comedy called There’s Something About Mary. Following the global success of […]

The Tangled Web of the Disney Class of 2008: How Selena Gomez, Miley Cyrus, Demi Lovato & the Jonas Brothers Are Forever Linked

E! News/July 28, 2016 If you looked at the current entertainment headlines, you’d think it was 2008 again. Demi Lovato and Nick Jonas run a record label together. Selena Gomez and Joe Jonas‘ band, DNCE, are on tour this summer—as are Demi and Nick. Plus, all four of them have singles steadily holding high spots on the music charts. However, it’s really eight years later […]

Remembering Kate Middleton and Prince William’s Fairytale Royal Wedding

E! News/April 29, 2018 Before there was a third royal baby and tours around the world, Prince William and Duchess of Cambridge Kate Middleton sealed their love with a kiss on the world’s stage. That stage was the balcony of Buckingham Palace. But, to the tens of millions of fans watching around the world, it was the picture-perfect close to the eagerly […]

How the Real Man of the Woods Silas Timberlake Brought Out the Best in Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel

E! News/April 6, 2018 While parenthood got off to an unpredictable start for Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel, their firstborn son, Silas Timberlake, changed their world all for the better. After two years of marriage, the star couple was expecting their first child together—a baby boy—in the spring of 2015. As they just recently revealed, the first-time parents had […]

Beyoncé and Jay-Z: A Love Story That Was Destined to Last

E! News/April 4, 2018 “I live so I can die with you.” It was this day last year that Beyoncé commemorated her wedding anniversary with a song dedicated to her partner, husband, right-hand man, Jay-Z. “I don’t have a reason to be, if I can’t be with you and I don’t need air in my lungs, if I […]

Garry Marshall, the Actor’s Ally: How the Legendary Director Launched A-List Careers

E! News/July 20, 2016 Julia Roberts, Robin Williams, Anne Hathaway. All Oscar winners. All once strangers to the silver screen. Still, the most prominent common thread in their prolific careers was Garry Marshall. With a career spanning nearly five decades, the late director, writer, producer and actor had seemingly endless films and television episodes to his name by […]

Different Religions, Money Problems and Parental Strife: On-Screen Couples That Represent a Slice of Real Life

E! News/ February 14, 2017 When it comes to the complicated world of love, even the movies can sometimes get it right. In the sea of googly eyed couples born and bred on Hollywood sound stages, it can get frustrating trying to separate romantic fact from movie studio fiction. From Lloyd Dobler’s iconic boombox serenade in Say […]

How Dakota Fanning and Abigail Breslin Navigated Fame Scandal-Free

E! News/October 20, 2016 In 2002, an 8-year-old girl made history when she became the youngest actress to be nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award. That girl was Dakota Fanning. The accolade was in honor of her performance in I Am Sam, the first major film role in Fanning’s early career. As the only daughter of […]