A federal appeals court ruled Friday that the estate of the late Anna Nicole Smith will not receive any portion of the estate of her deceased Texas billionaire husband, according to The Associated Press. The ruling ends a 15-year legal battle between Smith and the son of oil tycoon J. Howard...

This week the rock world lost Alex Chilton, so we’re devoting our Flashback to covers of Big Star songs by artists ranging from Beck to Wilco to the Bangles, who perform the classic “September Gurls” in the video above. As Rob Sheffield wrote in his remembrance of Chilton,...

Kevin Smith was kicked off a Southwest Airlines flight from Oakland to Burbank, Calif., Saturday because he was deemed too fat for the seats, he wrote in a barrage of angry Twitter posts. The Clerks and Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back director said he was booted by the captain after he was...

And we’re back again with our (at least) daily announcement of a reboot, sequel, prequel; this time word comes from NY Mag’s Vulture that Fox’s Regency Enterprises is moving forward with Mr. & Mrs. Jones, a pseudo-prequel to the 2005 action comedy Mr. & Mrs. Smith...