How Do You Part Your Hair?
D. Darby in Pinehurst, North Carolina, writes: Regarding your column about the connection between handedness and the side on which one parts his or her hair (February 15, 2015), I recall hearing that...
View ArticleExclusive Clip: Watch Benedict Cumberbatch Bark While Making Penguins of...
Picking up where Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted left off, DreamWorks Animation’s latest hit Penguins of Madagascar follows the black and white birds on a top secret spy mission that leads them to...
View Article9 Memorable Lines from Clifford Odets’ Classic Play Rocket to the Moon
Have you ever discovered a great piece of art, dress or writing from the past that is so great it continues to resonate so deeply? Take Clifford Odets’ play Rocket to the Moon. Although it first...
View ArticleCarrie Ann Inaba’s DWTS Blog: Expect Big Surprises for Season 20
It’s midnight on the night before the Dancing With the Stars premiere and I can’t believe that in just a few hours I will be back in the ballroom, doing what I love to do with people that I love to do...
View ArticleGetting Around a Red Light
Varancia Cox in Vestavia Hills, Alabama, writes: I witnessed a driver circumventing a red traffic signal in the following manner. First, the driver stopped at the red light. Then he made a right turn...
View ArticleCarrie Ann Inaba’s DWTS Blog: Rumer Willis Rocks Premiere
Season 20 of Dancing with the Stars kicked off with a bang! Last night was an incredibly exhilarating show. Waiting for the music cue to do our kick line This year’s cast is energetic with lots of...
View ArticleExclusive Clip: See Star Bill Macy Break Down Discussing Maude’s...
Before you could watch Bea Arthur in her nightgown every evening in Golden Girls, she made a name for herself carrying one of Norman Lear’s legendary TV creations: Maude. A spin-off of the classic...
View ArticleShowbiz Analysis with Country Music Legend Jim Ed Brown
Some our greatest music and inspiring stories come from country music legends, so I was honored to catch up with Grand Ole Opry star, CMA winner, radio host, and country music icon Jim Ed Brown for my...
View ArticleNew Documentary Brings ‘Humpback Whales’ to Life in Stunning 3-D
Barbara MacGillivray/Copyright 2015 MacGillivray Freeman Films and Pacific Life Humpback Whales at Sunset An adult humpback whale breaches off the coast of Maui. 1 of 15 Shaun MacGillivray/Copyright...
View ArticleWhat’s a Bored Senior To Do?
D.M.T. in Vancouver, Washington, writes:I am 80 years of age, active and in good health. I have no family except church members, 40 chickens, two dogs and two cats. I have about $75,000 in savings. I...
View ArticleHappy 9th Birthday Twitter! 11 Memorable Twitter Moments
On March 21, 2006, Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey posted the world’s first Tweet: “just setting up my twttr.” he declared. The company’s mission? To give anyone who wanted the power to share thoughts,...
View ArticleExclusive Video: Martin Short, Matthew Broderick and Other Stars Celebrate...
In John Guare’s dazzling 1990 Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, Six Degrees of Separation, Stockard Channing famously played Ouisa Kittredge, a private art dealer living in a fancy Fifth Avenue apartment...
View ArticleThose Mischievous Washing Machines
Barry Panson in Monroe Township, New Jersey writes: You once answered a question about why clothes turn inside out in the washing machine. The other day, as I was turning my shirts the correct way so I...
View ArticleCarrie Ann Inaba’s DWTS Blog: Is ‘Bachelor’ Star Chris Soules Doomed?
Week 2 of Dancing with the Stars Season 20 was incredible! It was the best second night of competition ever! I was shocked by the amount of improvement I saw in all of the contestants. In general, this...
View ArticleAngelina Jolie’s Shocking Surgery
Just two years after she had a preventative double mastectomy, Oscar-winning actress Angelia Jolie revealed Tuesday in the New York Times that she has had her ovaries and fallopian tubes removed, too....
View ArticleNew ‘X-Files’ Series Gets Green Light
Getty Images david-duchovny-and-gillian-anderson-x-files David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson star in "The X-Files." 1 of 4 gillian-anderson-star-x-files 2 of 4 david-duchovny-x-files-star 3 of 4...
View ArticleSNL Alum, Weeds Star, and Stand-Up Comic Kevin Nealon on Laugh Lessons and AFib
Kevin Nealon (Dana Patrick) Kevin Nealon and Parade magazine go way back. Only we didn’t know it until recently. “When I was in high school, I used to memorize the jokes in the back of Parade. It was...
View ArticleHow Much of Your Brain Do You Use?
Vernon Cavin, Jr., in Auburn, Washington, writes: I’ve read that we use only ten percent of our brains. Is this correct? It seems to me that we must use all of our brains, or head injuries wouldn’t be...
View ArticleThe Breakfast Club Turns 30 and Returns to the Big Screen
It’s true. One of the most amazing movies about teen angst is hitting early middle age. The Breakfast Club has officially turned 30. Originally released in February, 1985, this John Hughes classic was...
View ArticleWill Ferrell Joins Hollywood Elite with Star on Walk of Fame
From his hilarious portrayal of Ron Burgundy in Anchorman to Talladega Nights: The Legend of Ricky Bobby, Elf, and countless Saturday Night Live skits, Will Ferrell is etched in our minds as one of the...
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