People Magazine’s sexiest man of the year, Matt-Damon, is also the face of the ONE Campaign; a non-profit organization that raises public awareness about the global issues of hunger, poverty, and disease.

The Creative Coalition, a nonprofit organization of well-known entertainment figures, is sending contingents to both the Democratic and Republican national conventions again this year.

It turns out the real life of the actor who plays The Dark Knight is, well, dark.

It certainly doesn’t hurt to have a star in the family, if you’re gunning for an internship with Rolling Stone.

In her fifth year of organizing the annual Women’s Conference, California First Lady Maria Shriver has managed to pull in some big names.

Christie Brinkley’s fourth divorce has finally reached a settlement.

Absolut Vodka and Kanye West are testing the power of viral marketing by releasing a spoof infomercial online.

The Times of London reports today that Madonna has lined up famed divorce lawyer, Fiona Shackleton, fueling rumors that she is splitting with her husband, Guy Ritchie.

Ed McMahon has become the celebrity face of the rampant housing crisis affecting many working-class Americans.

Despite all he’s done to build up the New York’s Tribeca neighborhood, Robert DeNiro is having a run-in with the city Landmarks Commission.

Max Liron Bratman is making his public service announcement debut at age five months. The son of Grammy-winner Christina Aguilera and Jordan Bratman will join his famous mother in the Rock the Vote campaign this August.

Nonprofits, no matter how serious their mission, understand that famous names attract money, connections and high attendance at organization events.

Frank Sinatra is as cool as ever.

Jay-Z has had a big week. The rapper is expected to finalize a contract with Live Nation records soon worth $150 million. If that weren’t enough to celebrate, last night he reportedly married his superstar girlfriend, Beyonce Knowles.

Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston are now business competitors.

How is the father of psychoanalysis connected to the founder of the Beatles?

Sex, money and marital dysfunction: It’s all there in the Paul McCartney-Heather Mills divorce settlement, splayed out in 58 revelatory pages that read more like a British tabloid story than a legal decision.

As media reports suggested, it was a case of The Terminator taking on Dirty Harry and The Terminator winning.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice are only the latest of a long list of Americans who have reached out to besieged Tibetans.

Cascadilla Creek cuts through one of Ithaca, New York’s famously gorgeous gorges and then moseys through residential downtown. On its northern bank, as it passes under North Aurora Street, sits a large, slate-roofed, circa-1913 house. In the 1970s it was Teen Challenge, a faith-based drug treatment center. Then, it passed into the hands of the Sherman family (including this writer), who sold it to an architect, who sold it, indirectly to the Dalai Lama.