When the news first came out in 2012 that the late Amy Winehouse’s father Mitch wanted to erect a statue of his celebrated daughter, who died in 2011, the Internet’s immediate reaction was “Yikes!” A statue of Amy sounds like a hot mess waiting to happen, no? But now the artist who will be creating the statue has spoken out, reassuring fans that his interpretation of the tragically fated “Back to Black” singer will not be the disaster some are anticipating. Sculptor Scott …More

The Autry National Center’s new exhibit, entitled “Jews in Los Angeles Mosaic,” will highlight the Jewish community's contribution to the city since the 1800s. [Daily News] Scarlett Johansson will make her directorial debut with an adaptation of Truman Capote’s novel, “Summer Crossing.” [Screen Daily] Destination bar and bat mitzvahs are becoming common practice among American families. [Tablet] A devout Jewish man and former “American Idol” contestant is suing …More

"Glee" on-and-off-screen lovers Lea Michele and Cory Monteith had two very good reasons to celebrate this weekend. Not only was it Monteith’s 31st birthday (yes, he is over 30 and plays a teenager on TV… oh, America), but he is also freshly out of rehab. It was only weeks ago that Monteith made the startling announcement that he would be entering a rehabilitation center to deal with substance-abuse issues. At the time his rep said, "Cory Monteith has voluntarily admitted himself into a treatment …More

“Jews don’t believe in hell, but I’m telling you there is a Jewish hell. This is it. I’m Dave and I’m a waiter at Katz’s Deli.” Though most pastrami-loving diners would call the New York deli’s mountainous sandwiches and mouth-watering meats more heavenly than hellish, one of the establishment’s waiters seems to disagree. In what can only be assumed is a direct effort to get fired, David Manheim has created a YouTube-posted “talk show” during which …More

Last week Aly Raisman had to say farewell, at least on TV, to one of her closest friends on the show, Sean Lowe. “I'm really sad Sean's gone. He'll still be in LA, so I'll see him. And it's funny because in the beginning, I never expected to get close with Sean, but he's such a nice guy and so down-to-earth. We always hung out on set. He's like an older brother,” she said about his departure. The semi-finals of “Dancing with the Stars” brought out more of Raisman’s competitive edge, …More

The “Teen Mom” saga continues. Here’s a rundown of what you may have missed: MTV reality star Farrah Abraham recently filmed a steamy sex video with porn’s Jewish boy-next-door, James Deen. While she first insisted that the flesh flick was for her own personal use (so she could watch it when she was 80 and say, “Man I used to be a whore!”), Abraham then claimed that she’d sell it… for the right price. Soon she was accepting an almost $1 million payment from Vivid …More

After 37 years at ABC, Barbara Walters is retiring, the network announced Sunday evening. She broke the news herself yesterday on her national daily morning show, “The View.” “It’s time,” Walters said. “I keep thinking of the line from ‘Cabaret.’ ‘When I go, I’m going like Chelsea.’ When I go there is not going to be any, ‘Please can I have another appearance?’ I don’t want to do any more interviews. I don’t want to do any …More

“Mean Tweets” is back! In case you’ve missed it, every so often Jimmy Kimmel has his celebrity guests read rather heinous tweets about themselves on camera, to remind us that they’re real people with real feelings just like us. The fourth installment of “Mean Tweets” got pretty Jewy thanks to appearances by Zach Braff and Andy Samberg, with Samberg taking some heat for his big schnoz. Catch up on more installments of “Mean Tweets,” featuring Jews like David Cross, …More

Who’s excited for the upcoming season of “Arrested Development?” Obviously, that’s a rhetorical question, as the only legitimate answer is—everyone. To satiate the masses before the May 26 premiere of the cult classic on NetFlix, a trailer was finally released over the weekend. The clip gives passionate fans the first real glimpse of what’s to come for the Bluth family when the long awaited fourth season launches, and from the looks of it, everything seems to be business as …More

Bethenny Frankel has always been the kind of no-nonsense woman who will tell it like it is, as viewers learned when she starred on Bravo’s “Real Housewives of New York.” But who’d have thought that she would get so candid about something so personal when she wasn’t being interviewed on a reality TV show? Yep, Frankel has spilled the beans about her very nasty divorce from Jason Hoppy and it is not pretty. Frankel reveals how unhappy she was in her marriage, saying: “I felt …More

Get ready for some Hulk-like rage, readers, because this news is going to make you want to smash something. Yet again, a celebrity has gotten away with breaking the law thanks to some smooth work from an overpriced lawyer. Amanda Bynes, who has been spiraling into a very Lindsay Lohan-esque disaster for months now, got a charge of driving with a suspended license dismissed along with another charge… and this is after she missed two hearings about the charges! Yes, she didn’t show up to the first two …More

The annual Costume Institute Gala, thrown by Vogue Editor-in-Chief Anna Wintour at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, is the height of glamour and sophistication. Celebrities and designers from all over the world come to show off the most daring couture available. This year, with the Met Gala’s punk theme, the fashion was even more over-the-top than usual. Here was Sarah Jessica Parker’s look: Some may be completely baffled by this, but SJP was one of the only celebrities to really embrace the punk …More