E! News/November 20, 2017 “There was a time not very long ago…” With those eight words, Anastasia opened to audiences around the country. It was November 21, 1997 and Fox Animation Studios had just nationally debuted its first film, headed by director/producer duo Don Bluth and Gary Goldman and featuring a star-studded cast of voices, including Meg Ryan, John Cusack, Kelsey Grammer, Christopher Lloyd, Hank Azaria and Angela Lansbury with […]

Read More Once Upon a November: Behind the Scenes of Anastasia 20 Years Later

E! News/October 30, 2017 Camille Grammer once called 2010 the worst year of her life. The mother of two had been shooting the first season of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills while simultaneously facing the end of her 13-year marriage to star Kelsey Grammer. “My whole life was falling apart,” she told Katie Couric of that time in her life two years […]

Read More Camille Grammer Is Engaged: How the Reality Star Endured a High-Profile Divorce and Found Love Nearly a Decade Later

E! News/January 4, 2017 When a star successfully belts it out on the silver screen, they might as well prepare their Golden Globes speech. After 73 years, the annual awards ceremony continues to honor Hollywood’s risk takers who test their professional fate with a movie musical. While projects in the genre are not frequent nor […]

Read More A Career High Note: How Singing Led These Stars to Golden Globes Glory

E! News/March 22, 2017 Magazine covers are often dedicated to it. Products are promoted around it. Britney Spears even sang a lyric about it. We’re talking about celebrity weight loss. In Hollywood, what begins as a highly personal process can snowball into a month-long tabloid beat, a red carpet obsession and, for many female stars, a winding […]

Read More The Catch-22 of Losing Weight in Hollywood, as Told by Lena Dunham, Jennifer Hudson, Jessica Simpson and More

E! News/October 2, 2017 The show of a generation is ushering in a new era. TRL, MTV’s flagship live show and the program that played a part in the careers of the millennium’s biggest stars, is on its way back into the pop culture zeitgeist. During the show’s decade on television, it gave up-and-coming stars […]

Read More Behind the Scenes of TRL With the Man Who Helped Create It

E! News/September 28, 2017 Of the many women to come in and out of Hugh Hefner‘s life, Holly Madisonis one of the most famous. The late magazine mogul’s girlfriend for seven years—a majority of them as the “#1 girlfriend”—Madison was a prominent fixture in Hefner’s life for nearly a decade. Having frequently visited the mansion while a 20-year-old college student […]

Read More Revisiting Hugh Hefner and Holly Madison’s Complicated Relationship

E! News/August 10, 2017 “There’s a freedom and a joy. It’s about food, clothing, style. It’s about life. That’s why I love Italy.” Rob Marshall spoke those words during a New York Times interview in 2009. At the time, the Oscar-nominated director was awaiting the debut of his latest silver screen work, Nine, one of the many American films […]

Read More Hollywood’s Endless Amore for Italy: A Celebrity Guide to Europe’s Boot

E! News/September 28, 2017 Hugh Hefner was a man on a mission to make a change. As people all over the world mourn the loss of the late visionary, who died of natural causesWednesday at the iconic Playboy Mansion, some may be wondering how his iconic contribution to pop culture—Playboy—began. In short, the then-25-year-old Esquire copywriter saw a need […]

Read More Determination, $8,000 and an Idea: The Story of How Hugh Hefner Started Playboy