Leveson inquiry: Paul Dacre, Heather Mills, Max Clifford appear

• Dacre won't withdraw Grant 'mendacious smears' comment • Says Grant obsessed by trying to drag Mail into scandal • NoW head of news: culture of bullying came from editor • Did not draft emails to women in the Max Mosley case • Editor told him not to tell McCanns' PR the paper had her diary • Max Clifford: I introduced Simon Cowell to Murdochs • Could never justify Freddie Starr headline as in ...

Face Off Recap: Getting Naked

Hopefully your kids were in bed before tonight’s episode of Face Off began because there was nudity all over the place. So much nudity that the censors didn’t even bother blurring out any bare butts. None of ‘em. The reason for all the naked flesh? Artwork, duh! Just like we saw last season, the remaining [...]

Big Winners at the Golden Globes: Clooney and Streep, The Artist and The Descendants

George Clooney and Meryl Streep, as close to movie royalty as this post-star era can get, solidified their front-runner status in the Oscar race by taking the trophies for Best Actor and Actress in a Drama at Sunday evening's 69th Golden Globes awards, presented by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. On a night for old stars (Christopher Plummer) and new stars (Michelle Williams), the big ...

Senseless censorship

My daughters watch TV programs and movies on DVDs, on smart phones, streaming from Netflix through our Wii, on video Web sites, on our DVR and on demand from AT&T U-verse. They don’t know or care what “broadcast TV” is, and they certainly don’t perceive a distinction...