Celebrity Scene Archive

WHY SHE'S ON OUR RADAR: The 31-year-old seasoned thesp plays a newlywed whose interracial marriage inflames her nutty neighbor (Samuel L. Jackson) in the suburban thriller Lakeview Terrace.

Expecting twins with her fourth husband.

We shot the glowing beauty poolside at a palatial Laurel Canyon, CA, estate, in drapey gowns with cool palettes

Psychologists point out that the opposite of love is not hate, it's apathy. Indifference seems anathema to the bonds of caring that we call love. In a big family, the potential for more affection can result in a greater sense of securi...

Eva Mendes is tapping her inner girl's girl.

Typically, fundamentalist polygamists have tried to keep themselves exempt from the ways of "the wicked world."  But the alleged crimes of polygamous patriarchs have eroded their insular world, placing polygamists under scrutiny.  And pa...

People keep asking me how plural wives live together without getting in each other's way.  "I'd beat up a woman who messed with my house," said one woman.  "No telling what I'd do if she went to bed with my husband!"No wonder the mainstr...

Some people ask if early marriage is mandated for FLDS teens? The obvious answer is "no," many are allowed to reach the ripe old age of 18 before being "assigned."

Recently a young woman interviewed me for a paper she was writing on polygamy. One of her first questions involved incestuous marriages. People tend to equate polygamy with incestuous marriage partly because of the widely publicized Kingston cas...

The first time I met Josh, I thought he was a nice guy but a transient friend. The first time I met Si I fell hopelessly in love and prayed I'd somehow be able to convert him. But the first time I met Portia I thought I'd found my soul mate. She ...

Nick was never supposed to be The One, for God's sake. Even I knew that. And yes, I know those that are happily married often say you can't know, not immediately, but of course I knew. Not that he sounded wrong-Nick spoke the Queen's English sligh...

The love affair that started in New York continued in England for a couple of months. He was sweet, and young, and fresh, and even though I was very much in it for the moment, I loved spending time with him. He, on the other hand, would spend hour...

Merrill Jessop, a leader in the FLDS community and top dog at the YFZ Ranch, may not be in prison, but two of his namesakes have been arrested, along with three other patriarachs, with bail set at $100,000 each. Raymond Merrill Jessop allegedly as...

Principle Voices, an organization advocating the right to live the religious "Principle of Plural Marriage," disagrees with Senator Harry Reid's Victims of Polygamy Assistance Act 2008. Principle Voices fundamentally objects to the proposal that fund...

MC looks at the top grannies ever portrayed on television.

As the Radar editor, I read and watch a lot of celebrity news sites and shows in the pursuit of breaking news.  Apart from industry blogs and cruising through the tabloid/Page Six clip package that gets distributed each morning, I check in da...

As navigators know, if you start a journey a few degrees off, you must make a correction right away or miss your destination by miles. One would think that the Senate Judiciary Committee would realize this as they convene their inquiry into crimes...

On July 24, Utah state and local government agencies close up shop in celebration of "Pioneer Day"--when LDS Church President Brigham Young rose from his sickbed in a covered wagon, looked over the Salt Lake Valley and declared, "this is the place...