This week the Miss Universe organization has found itself immersed in controversy once again when the Miss Universe Canada pageant disqualified transgender beauty queen Jenna Talackova for not being born a woman. After a huge backlash from Jenna's supporters, including a petition that currently has nearly 50,000 signatures, the Miss Universe organization has reversed its decision and is allowing Read more

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Break out your finest swimsuit and flashiest smile because OPI is set to launch its Miss Universe collection in August — just in time for the Miss Universe Pageant. The lineup of lacquers includes four sparkling, shimmery shades that will undoubtedly look gorgeous, even if pageantry isn't your thing. Check them out up close now. Read more

At only 28 years old, former Miss Venezuela Eva Ekvall has died from breast cancer. Eva was just 17 when she was crowned Miss Venezuela in 2000, and then the following year she was third runner-up in the Miss Universe pageant. But Eva was much more than a pretty face, as she went on to be not only a wife and mother, but a model, actress, television news anchor, and author before her life was cut Read more

Last night Miss Venezuela Ivian Lunasol Sarcos Colmenares was crowned Miss World 2011. And while there were the expected pageant waves, tears, sparkly dresses, and plastered-on smiles, there's more to the 60-year-old beauty pageant than meets the eye. Here are some of the fun and juicy tidbits about Miss World that you may not know: Venezuela is the country with the most Miss World wins, Ivian Read more

Good news Fringe fans — this season is shaping up to be the best yet. Not only have the past two episodes blended everything we've been missing (and loving) about this series all Summer — weird cases, alternate universes, and "Walterisms" — but now we finally get to see what happens when we ask the question" "Where is Peter Bishop?" This week's episode of Fringe brings the goods — Read more

This week began with the Miss Universe pageant, then it was filled with celebrity birthdays, New York Fashion Week madness, the Toronto International Film Festival, and excitement leading up to Sunday's Emmy Awards. See what you might have missed these past seven days in our week in pictures! Read more

Tilda Swinton, John C. Reilly, Ezra Miller, and their director, Lynne Ramsay, debuted We Need to Talk About Kevin at Cannes this morning. It's the first very buzzed about movie of the festival, with it's unsettling and difficult look at the relationship between a mother, played by Tilda, and her son named Kevin who commits a massacre at his high school — read my We Need to Talk About Kevin Read more