Tina Fey is A Good Comedy Thing, obviously. But sometimes – just sometimes – there are parts of you that need refreshing which a good girl from Pennsylvania just can’t reach. And for those times, there’s Chelsea Handler. Handler is a New Jersey-born stand-up comedian with three comic... 

Mel Gibson and Oksana Grigorieva have been leading separate lives in Los Angeles since their ugly split. (X17Online.com) A text message sent by Mel Gibson to his ex-girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva in which he allegedly admitted he “wasn’t safe for you” has become key evidence in the domestic... 

Marilyn Monroe: the star among stars who brought ‘new radiance’ to the concept of celebrity. Photograph: SAM SHAW / Rex Features Academics today are required to be popular: new funding criteria for universities measure the “impact” of their staff. What better way for academics... 

AP Lindsay Lohan needed an Oscar-winning performance in her probation hearing to avoid jail time. She did not deliver. “I did the best I could,” Lohan tearily told Superior Judge Marsha Revel in her own defense in Beverly Hills, Calif. on Tuesday. But Revel, citing a litany of Lohan’s... 

Gregory Woo in The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, part of Family Friendly Film Festival Photograph: Robert Zuckerman Family Friendly Film Festival, Manchester Summer holiday’s sorted for Manchester parents for the next fortnight. And you don’t even need to feel guilty about plonking...