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Adrian Grenier doesn't mind if you call him Vince. But he'd also like you to call him a community builder who has some big ideas about turning media culture into a positive way to engage teens. Oh, and he thinks you should try a little of his retro-inspired beer

The Academy Awards are a good reminder to keep your thank-you speeches heartfelt, poignant, and--most of all--short. Or...cue the music! The 84th Academy Awards will air this Sunday to much fanfare

Is $3.5 million for 30 seconds of fame worth it? These businesses are putting it all on the line during Super Bowl XLVI. Some make you laugh , others (attempt to) make you cry.

The more difficult your company is to replace, the longer you'll survive and the more money you'll make.

Michael Rooker only needed a handful of scenes to turn Merle Dixon into a fanboy favorite. But it was his real-world commitment to bringing the character to life that gave the AMC series its watercooler buzz.

The actor led a $4 million seed round and joined the company's board of advisers.

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In acting they call it a "cattle call." Hundreds of up-and-coming actors file in to the same audition in hopes of being chosen for a role. It's quite a demeaning process. Kind of hard to tell with a name like "cattle call," but the process goes something like this: The actor stands in the center of a cold, uninviting room and faces a table with what is essentially a panel of judges, similar to a firing squad.

Lady Gaga Comes Out! Gwyneth Goes Topless! (Fwd: Photos.) Why do we fall for these and other trick headlines and email subjects over and over again? Click and read through this story for the answers you've been looking for! Made you look! You're not alone.

[youtube O5MgeJwhOgU] Sir Ian McKellan has found lifelong success, but it could have turned out very differently. In a PSA released last night, the actor portrays himself as a homeless man sleeping on the street and being cruelly tormented

They aren't exactly bootstrappers, but these stars ventured outside their celebrity comfort zones to start their businesses. The “Sex and the City” star opened The Cutting Room in 1999 with business partner Steve Walter

You might want to start. At only 23 years old, Eric Kuhn has trail-blazed many media empires into the social space--now he's eyeing nothing less than the future of entertainment. Eric Kuhn isn't old enough to rent a car, but as the former head of social media for CNN, and the digital architect of @KatieCouric's viral interview with Sara Palin , he's already experienced many watershed moments for social media

An enterprising team of animators has hacked Microsoft 's Kinect sensor suite to do something tangibly amazing: They're using the cheap hardware as a motion-replication system to power CGI characters.

One the same day Warner Bros. officially fired the actor from the popular sitcom, Sheen was spotted on the roof of the Live Nation building in Los Angeles waving around a machete.

Twins Bob and Max were removed from the actor's home after a judge granted estranged wife Brooke Mueller a temporary restraining order