Oscars 2012: "The Help"

A young writer and a housemaid secretly collaborate on a book exposing the treatment of hired help by their employers in 1960s Mississippi

• Feb 23, 2012
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Mick Jagger calls Obama's blues singing "courageous"

Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger said President Barack Obama did a pretty good job singing the blues earlier this week

• Feb 23, 2012

Princess Estelle of Sweden

Princess Estelle Silvia Ewa Mary of Sweden, Duchess of Ostergotlan, is the first child for Crown Princess Victoria and Prince Daniel

• Feb 23, 2012
• 22 photos

Portman, Firth, Bale, Leo to present at Oscars

Last year's Academy Awards acting winners will be among the presenters at Sunday's ceremony

• Feb 23, 2012

2012 Award Season's best dressed

See the best red-carpet looks of the current awards season

• Feb 23, 2012
• 30 photos

Raise a glass with these Oscar-themed cocktails

Recipes for drinks inspired by the red carpet and some of this year's Academy Awards nominees

• Feb 23, 2012

Aretha Franklin: No rift with Cissy Houston

The singer says Cissy Houston raised her daughter Whitney well and a comment she made on the "Today" show was taken out of context

• Feb 23, 2012

Palin aides denounce HBO's "Game Change"

Current and former aides to Sarah Palin lashed out at the HBO film, which stars Julianne Moore as the former Alaska governor

• Feb 23, 2012

Couple risks nest egg for movie, gets Oscar nod

Andrew Bowler and Gigi Causey invest in their short film "Time Freak," instead of apartment and get Academy Award nomination

• Feb 23, 2012

Analyzing Lisa Kudrow's "Web Therapy"

Series about therapist with limited patience draws big names like Meryl Streep, Jane Lynch "to play" with ex-"Friends" star

• Feb 23, 2012

Kate Walsh shows off her nude "Shape"

"Private Practice" star Kate Walsh leaves little to the imagination in the March issue of Shape magazine

• Feb 23, 2012

J.K. Rowling to publish first novel for adults

"Harry Potter" author inks deal for a new book; Title, release date and details were not announced

• Feb 23, 2012

Star Jones returns to "The View"

Star Jones, one of the show's original co-hosts, returned to the show after her highly-publicized falling out with co-host Barbara Walters

• Feb 23, 2012

Jennifer Aniston gets her star

Actress Jennifer Aniston was joined by her father, John, and boyfriend, Justin Theroux, at the Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony

• Feb 23, 2012

"Survivor: One World" focuses on a divided tribe

See who was ousted in the second episode of "Survivor: One World," which pits men against women in a series of challenges

• Feb 23, 2012

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