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Aaron Sorkin wrote a moving letter to his teenage daughter and her mother, Julia Sorkin, on Wednesday after Donald Trump won the presidential election.In the letter, addressed to “Sorkin Girls” and published on Vanity Fair, the creator of The West Wing and The Newsroom wrote that he felt powerless as he watched Trump defeat Hillary Clinton, and that his daughter’s tears spurred him to action.“Well the world changed late last night in a way I couldn’t protect us from. That’s a terrible feeling for a father. I won’t sugarcoat it — this is truly horrible,” Sorkin wrote. “It’s hardly the...

Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz took time on Saturday to wish Cher a Merry Christmas, even after the legendary singer offered the Texas senator a less Christian holiday message. Earlier on Thursday, Cher said on Twitter to her nearly 3 million followers, "As Judas was to Jesus, so is Ted Cruz to America. Read what he's written and watched what he's said, for years. He ALWAYS TERRIFIED ME." In response, Cruz wrote back to Cher, "Cher, thanks for the kind sentiments. And I wish you a Merry Christmas and a blessed New Year." Cher often airs out her political thoughts...

Wow, did anyone see this coming? Does this mean she will have to give up her fake English accent?

BISSAU, Guinea-Bissau (AP)-When the government of one of the world's poorest nations learned that Whoopi Goldberg had taken a DNA test showing her ancestors hair from here, the news reverbrated through the halls of parliament.It was, the country's leaders decided, a chance to change the image of this West African nation plagued by coups since wrestling independence from Portugal in 1973. If the world could only grasp that a Hollywood celebrity traced her roots to this forsaken corner of the globe, it could bring goodwill from afar-even fame for Guinea-Bissau, they reasoned.

In this photo obtained from tv news magazine, Inside Edition, actor Tom Cruise surprised Yahoo employees by bringing his girlfriend Katie Holmes on stage and showing off her very pregnant belly at the company's Influential Speaker's Event, Tuesday March 21st, at Yahoo's Sunnyvale, California headquarters.

NEW YORK (AP)-"South Park" creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker vowed vengeance last week in their running battle with Scientology-and Wednesday night's new-season premier appears to be the start.Issac Hayes may have left the animated satire in a huff over what he described as religious "intolerance and bigotry," but his Chef character, which he's voiced since 1997, isn't forgotten.The Comedy Central cartoon begins its 10th season with an episode titled "The Return of Chef!" The character's return follows by just a few days Hayes' statement that he was quitting because he could no longer accept the show's satirical blasts at...

January 20, 2006 -- Size doesn't matter — at least not in the war on terror, according to Star Jones. Yesterday, the co-host of "The View" told viewers that the war on terror was nothing more than a clash of male egos between President Bush and Osama bin Laden. "You know what? At some point, one of these men has to put it back in his pants and zip up the zipper," she said during a discussion of bin Laden's latest audio tape Jones, a former Brooklyn prosecutor turned TV star, has a long history of speaking her mind —...

When he walks on to a movie set, he usually gets star treatment.But as Tom Hanks arrived at the Lincoln Cathedral yesterday, he found himself somewhat upstaged.A handful of protesters were making their feelings known about the decision to film scenes from The Da Vinci Code in the historic building.

MALIBU, Calif. (AP)-A photographer was shot in the leg with a pellet gun outside Britney Spears' home on Saturday evening, authorities said.It was unclear who fired the plastic pellet as the photographer was staking out an event at the pop singer's Malibu home, Sheriff's Department Lt. Steve Smith said. He said firefighters bandaged the man's leg and he went to a hospital.

NEW YORK-Lauren Bacall tells TIME Tom Cruise is not a great actor. "When you talk about a great actor, you're not thinking about Tom Cruise," Bacall says."His whole behavior is so shocking. It's inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially, but I think it's a kind of sickness."

Barbara Streisand is urging members of the news media not to forget about presidential advisor Karl Rove now that he's been bumped from the headlines by the selection of John Roberts as the next Supreme Court justice.On her website, the entertainer and liberal activist writes:How lucky for George Bush that his well-timed nomination of Judge Roberts to the Supreme Court has taken the heat off of Karl Rove. Let's hope that the press does not forget about Mr. Rove and the White House's role in the leak of undercover CIA agent Valerie Plame's identity. The Fitzgerald investigation and the Rove...

Sir Elton John is famed for his outbursts and diva-ish tantrums. So when he was invited to a presidential reception hosted by George W. Bush, the organizers must have been praying the Rocket Man would not explode.

It was meant to be a recreation of one of pop's finest moments, where the cream of the British music scene came together in the name of charity. Instead it turned into an egofuelled squabble between one of rock's elder statesmen and a flashy would-be pretender.

Flipping channels almost always ends up being a big mistake. If I stray too far from ESPN, or the serene comfort of the GLOF (Gorgeous Ladies of FOX), I almost always end up seeing something that is best left unwatched. Friday night was no different, as I ran across Meryl Streep talking Jesus with Katie Couric. It was a theological reactor meltdown, resulting in a verbal radiological release that would have had the real Silkwood running in fear of re-contamination. Having told myself months ago that I wouldn't encroach upon the frustrating subject of the Hollywood left in the foreseeable...

http://www.msnbc.com/news/897509.asp?0dm=O13NL Protesters attack Garofalo show April 9 — Will another anti-war celeb take a career hit? Bush supporters have been deluging ABC with calls and e-mails, complaining about a sitcom the network has in development starring outspoken war protester Janeane Garofalo. ABC HAS reportedly been working on the comedy, in which Garofalo plays a producer at a TV newsmagazine. The pro-war protesters are threatening to organize a major campaign against ABC, including a boycott of advertisers, if the network airs the show. “We do not wish to see the faces of liberal Hollywood, particularly those that provided aid and comfort...