Hey, speaking of the Dillon boys, Matt is interested in getting back together with Cameron Diaz, says OK! Magazine. According to them, brother Kevin told Matt to reach out to her and see what happens, and that that's precisely what he did. However, since being spotted at Chateau Marmont on March 15, the two, who [...]

I can't say that my opinion of celebrities has ever been swayed much by the cars they drive, but, understandably, the folks over at Celebrity Cars blog take that it all a little personally. And when Mamaroneck native Kevin Dillon shows himself in public, driving a dirty old Lincoln—well, that's apparently enough to negate all [...]

Celebrity restaurants are nothing new. But celebrity organic restaurants, now they're all the rage. Now that Pound Ridge's Richard Gere's has unveiled phase one of his Bedford Post dining destination, and Sandra Bullock showed Oprah biodegradable utensils and sugar-cane take-out containers at her restaurant (Austin's Bess Bistro), it looks like Jake Gyllenhaal is ready to [...]

On the podcast this week: George Clooney comes to Pelham, Mary J. Blige launches her own women's center, and DMX gets arrested two times in one week. Yes, seriously, two times in one week.

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Chappaqua's Vanessa Williams finally got her college diploma over the weekend … 25 years after she dropped [...]

Is Bonnie Fuller era as the queen of tabloids officially over? It would seem so, now that Bonnie Fuller is no longer running the Star shop over at American Media Inc.

According to FishbowlNY, Fuller, who lives in Hastings, said the decision to leave was "100 percent" hers and that she's currently "thinking about the next [...]

It's a question you've no doubt asked yourself countless times before: Where does Justine Bateman stand on the whole "Net Neutrality" debate?

I'm sure Lawrence Lessig and Kevin Martin have perfectly good arguments on the topic, too, but during late April's Senate Committee Hearing on the Future of the Internet, it was Bateman, a Rye native [...]

Nyack resident Bill Irwin is about to premiere of his own ensemble show, "The Happiness Lecture," down in Philadelphia. And much as I kid with the title, from the description on the Philadelphia Theatre Company's website, "Happiness" actually has next to nothing to do with Pausch's now-famous Carnegie Mellon speech, "The Last Lecture"—other than both [...]

More than seven months after after the story that DMX had three dead dogs buried behind his Arizona house, and 12 more that were malnourished and possibly the victims of animal cruelty, Arizona law enforcement finally arrested the rapper on Friday. This comes on the heels of yet another DMX arrest earlier in the week, [...]

I realize that an appearance on The Tonight Show—especially an off-camera appearance—doesn't necessarily translate into full-fledged celebrity status, but, well, it's close enough for me to post here. Especially when the person appearing is Journal News colleague Shawn Cohen, and the appearance is in the form of a vacation video of him and some awfully [...]

Vanessa Williams wasn't the only local speaking at Syracuse's graduation ceremonies over the weekend. Rye resident and medical miracle Bob Woodruff was also there, delivering the commencement address. Speaking to a crowd of 14,300, he reminded the 4,600 graduating students that (a) he actually went to Colgate, (b) Syracuse is really much better at lacrosse [...]

Chappaqua resident Vanessa Williams headed back to Syracuse over the weekend to deliver the convocation address … and pick up her diplomma 25 years after dropping out of the university. Wearing a blue cap and gown with orange trim, Williams told a local reporter, "It's been 25 years since I was a student here. It [...]

Oprah, look out! You're not the only one opening women's centers and schools anymore. Mary J. Blige is following suit in her old hometown of Yonkers.  The singer visited Roosevelt High on Friday to announce the the new outreach facility—The Mary J. Blige Center for Women—which will be run as a partnership between her (and [...]