Alison Prato
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How Marley, Cujo and other movie dogs gave Oscar-worthy performances
“Citizen Canine: Dogs in the Movies” by film journalist Wendy Mitchell, features 60 of the smartest, bravest and funniest pooches who’ve appeared on the big screen in the last 100...
How this NYC trendsetter fell from fashion icon to folding shirts at J.Crew
In the summer of 1985, Olga Liriano, a model agent, and her best friend Carey Lowell, the model-actress who would go on to marry Griffin Dunne and Richard Gere, were...
'Love, Actually' star Rodrigo Santoro goes rogue in Hulu's 'Reprisal'
Rodrigo Santoro walks into a cafe on New York’s West Side at 9 o’clock on a Sunday morning, wearing dark denim jeans, a NASA bomber jacket, sunglasses and bedhead. Seeing...
Fierce holiday gift finds for your fabulous fur babies
Pizza cat This refillable catnip toy gets Fluffy happy and donates 100 percent of its profits to animal-welfare charities. Food is love Because store-bought kibble won’t cut it for your...
Kate Bosworth anchors Netflix's castaway thriller 'The I-Land'
Kate Bosworth is universally regarded as a fashion darling, but in her new sci-fi show, “The I-Land,” she wakes up on a deserted island wearing something horrifically basic: a white...
It girl Alexandra Richards — daughter of Keith Richards and Patti Hansen — is rocking NYC
It's Fashion Week in New York City, and the see-and-be-seen café La Mercerie is lit. Every table is packed with beautiful people. Out front, on the corner of Howard and...
Rumer Willis doesn't care if you don't like her
Rumer Willis could use a nap. The 27-year-old daughter of Bruce Willis and Demi Moore has just wrapped her first eight-show week starring as Roxie Hart in "Chicago" on Broadway,...
'Blindspot' babe has 'had about enough' of sexy hot girl roles
Jaimie Alexander is hitting a pingpong ball — or rather, trying to hit a pingpong ball — to her fiancé, “Twilight” star Peter Facinelli. She whacks the ball with the...
Go rot, you fat-shaming skank, and let me eat my donut in peace
Darcy Barber loves her work as a fashion designer — but after 10 years in the biz, there’s still one thing the trendsetter hates about her industry: the widespread fat-shaming...
Meet Melanie Iglesias, MTV’s red-hot host
As the host of MTV’s “Guy Code,” “Girl Code” and “Guy Court,” Melanie Iglesias has learned countless things about relationships by talking to blabbermouthed, camera-hamming men and women around the...
Why Nina Dobrev's love life is the talk of Twitter
On the night of the Los Angeles movie premiere of her new movie, “Let’s Be Cops,” Nina Dobrev was getting dolled up in a colorful Zuhair Murad minidress, Salvatore Ferragamo...
Sleeper hit
Every parent knows how terrible it can be to get a whining, stalling, faux-thirsty, potty-jonesing child to go to sleep. But it wasn’t until one parent —Adam Mansbach, novelist and...
Loose Cannon
So what if he’s married to one of the most famous, five-octave-range-singing, Hello Kitty-loving superstar artists on the planet? For comedian Nick Cannon, 30, being Mariah Carey’s baby daddy means...
Michael Bublé swings for a new generation
If Hamm & Bublé, purveyor of “pork dishes and fine Champagne,” were a real restaurant and not a “Saturday Night Live” spoof, Michael Bublé’s fans would pack the joint. Especially...
LADY KILLER
Puny in stature but huge on attitude, 23-year-old English grime-scene rapper Louise "Lady Sovereign" Harman has been causing a ruckus since Def Jam released her debut album, "Public Warning," in...
CLOTHES MAKE THE BAND
Franz Ferdinand is indisputably one of the most electrifying live bands around, but there's one thing lead singer Alex Kapranos will never do onstage: Take off his shirt. Although prodded...
WHAT WERE THEY INKING!
Talk about lost in translation. The Sanskrit tattoo on Rihanna's right hip is misspelled, it emerged last week. It was meant to read "forgiveness, honesty, suppression and control," but the...