@gahblah: I do agree on the significance of someone from the pop-country machine coming out. However, I disagree with the notion that lang wasn't a country artist. She released 4 albums that were country western top to bottom, steel and slide guitars and all, and even her later releases had a lot of country thrown…

k.d. lang not only came out almost 20 years before this, but was more authentically country than Chely Wright ever was. The high note on her cover of "Western Stars", delivered in the gentlest, lightest, most ethereal way possible (as opposed to the usual desperate bravura singers accord high notes), remains a wonder…

Country singer Chely Wright's reasoning was sound. "There had never, ever been a country music artist who had acknowledged his or her homosexuality," she tells PEOPLE. "I wasn't going to be the first."

This law is extremely unlikely to survive a court challenge. It outright violates multiple parts of the Constitution and directly contradicts a host of rulings. That does not absolve the Arizona lawmakers from passing this law, of course. And there is the chance that the conservative majority on the Supreme will…

If this was actually a surprise or a big celebrity, there'd be no need to hype this coming out so much in advance. This is going to be some zzz-lister that we already know is teh ghey.

Whoa, Mister Sister needs to dial back the makeup.

For people who don't understand how the Back-Up Plan is a flop: 35 mil budget to make the crappy film; 20 mil for promotions; split receipts with theaters, and you're left with a movie that has to make 100 mil+ at the box office + home video to just break even. And 12 mil on an opening weekend? Being beaten by a movie…

Gabby could really take some Jamaican nurse imitation lessons from Jon Hamm.

When first I skimmed this entry, I thought that picture of August Diehl was one of those "if they mated" composites of Tom Cruise and Angelina Jolie, or at least some guy and girl. But he's a real person? Radical!

Great, Japanese chicks have discovered their own version of Renn Faire / Civil War Reenactment. No good has come out of such exhaustive nostalgia in the US, and I don't see any good coming out of it in Japan. Let's face it, the past sucked. It's bad enough when we repeat it unknowingly, but on purpose? As I like to…

Macy Gray's one-hit-wonder status befuddles; she kept churning out delicious, groovy and lyrically-inspired songs, but none of them caught on beyond "I Try". I suppose her voice is just too much of an acquired taste, but if people tried "I Try", why not give the rest of it a chance? Some personal faves:

SNL just slammed Jay Leno so hard and long and deep his chin grew 3 inches.

Is her Jamaican accent slipping back in?

They just shoved Mrs. O into the uncanny valley. Nothing she can't climb out of with just one arm, but still, not cool.

Hey little girl, is your daddy home? Did he go away and leave you all alone? I've got a bad desire...

I feel the video. I find it poignant and poetic. People who stick their necks out, or in Ms. Badu's case, a lot more than a neck, get shot down in a variety of ways. JFK was shot by a lone lunatic, but that only happened because his stuck his neck out and took the most high profile job in the world. Anytime someone…

This was not Photoshopped, either.

Obligatory: Obama mind melds with cow.

@Edie Spencer: @crustaceangirl: I would hope human trafficking is already illegal in Iceland. So either enforce existing laws, or make human trafficking illegal. Forcing performers to cover up certain parts of their bodies? About as relevant to stopping trafficking as the war in Iraq is to 9/11.

This isn't feminism, this is censorship based on erotophobia. People objectify themselves and others for monetary purposes all the time. Is Iceland rushing to ban modeling? Pop stars? Reality shows? No, they're going after the one time it's done nude and semi-nude. Are they doing it because women are mistreated at…