By Drew Grant 2/10/12 12:32pm

Bill O'Reilly

Bill O'Reilly defends Ellen

Bill O’Reilly Supports “American Citizen” Ellen Against Fundamentalist Mom Group In JCPenney Firestorm (Video)

Is ole’ Bill getting soft in his old age? Back in the day, the conservative Fox host would take up the cause with the fundamentalist Christian group One Million Moms (“Who Hate Everything” is usually left off their title) in their boycott of JCPenney for using Ellen DeGeneres as a spokesperson.

Instead, in an editorial in today’s New York Post (as well as a recent episode of his show) Bill O’Reilly defends Ms. DeGeneres, scolds the Moms, and even suggests that they set their sights on a non-gay pop culture icon more deserving of their scorn. Read More

By Matt Haber 10/09/08 3:36pm

The Importance of Being on Ellen

Today on Salon, Rebecca Traister looks at how daytime television—particularly The View, Ellen, and The Rachael Ray Show—is impacting the election.

Writes Ms. Traister:

Credit Sarah Palin, or Hillary Clinton, or unprecedented excitement over the historic candidacy of Barack Obama and appreciation for his exceptionally appealing wife. Maybe it’s the panic about the financial Read More

By David Foxley 11/15/07 3:11pm

Ellen Cancels New York Taping Trip

Not long after Ellen DeGeneres beckoned bile from Writers Guild members for crossing picket lines, the talk show host has killed plans to tape The Ellen DeGeneres Show in New York next week. Among those “delighted” with her decision—Michael Winship, president of the Guild’s East Coast arm. “She knows that the Writers Guild Read More

By David Foxley 11/12/07 3:53pm

Ellen’s Iggy Stars in Commercial

Iggy, the dog that launched a thousand tears, is doing fine. In the wake of Ellen DeGeneres’ on-air breakdown over the pup’s forced return to an animal shelter, the Affenpinscher mix is following the TV host’s lead by hitting the airwaves to promote pet adoption awareness. According to an attorney who represents Mutts Read More

By Andrew Sarris 3/05/07 12:00am

Stars Align in Zodiac: Cast Saves Fincher’s Shaggy-Dog Psychodrama

David Fincher’s Zodiac, from a screenplay by James Vanderbilt, based on the book by Robert Graysmith, provides the latest installment of Mr. Fincher’s curiously perverse career, spent in the indulgence and exploitation of baroque forms of depravity and evil. He began uneventfully enough with the inauspicious derivativeness of a sequel to a sequel in Alien Read More

By Andrew Goldman 3/13/00 12:00am

Grab the Popcorn, Ladies, for Sapphic Super Bowl!

“It’s like a Super Bowl for lesbians!” shouted Marie Fiorino into the phone at Henrietta Hudson, the West Village lesbian bar she manages. “People are into this thing like crazy.”

She was referring to the Ellen DeGeneres-produced HBO movie If These Walls Could Talk 2 . Among lesbians in New York, no television event of Read More