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Michael Douglas is fully aware of the uproar his comments linking oral sex and HPV to cancer have caused, and he'd like to clear something up. It's not like he was saying oral sex, and the contracting of HPV, definitely leads to cancer. He was just s...

After announcing his leave of presence, Roger Ebert passed away today in Chicago after a long battle with cancer. It's a sad day for movie geeks, writers, and New Yorker caption hopefuls. Bust out your old Mad magazines and dim the lights. See you at...

Roger Ebert, Pulitzer Prize winner and national treasure, is taking a "leave of presence" by cutting back on his workload as he faces cancer treatments again. He will continue to write selected reviews as well as essays addressing his illness. "It re...

As a stand-up, Anthony Jeselnik has carved out his own space with punchy one-liners that play verbal ping-pong with topics most others wouldn't touch: disease, rape, cancer, death, baby death. Nothing was off-limits. The idea was, "Fine. If no one el...

People die on television every day. They die of old age or cancer on tear-jerking dramas; occasionally they tumble down elevator shafts. On cable, they're bitten to death by vampires and zombies or gunned down by mooks and molls. Even high school sho...

In 1974's Emmanuelle, the Dutch actress Sylvia Kristel — who died in Amsterdam on Wednesday, at 60, of esophageal and lung cancer — plays a young model who moves to Thailand with her husband, a French diplomat, and embarks on a journey of...

Lance Armstrong was never really about cycling - not really.

Here's Louis C.K., tweeting about Tig Notaro's stand-up comedy set at L.A. club Largo on Saturday night: "[I]n 27 years doing this, I've seen a handful of truly great, masterful standup sets. One was Tig Notaro last night at Largo." What exactly went...

The scandal at State College infects an entire system in the aftermath of the Freeh Report.

We lost Adam "MCA" Yauch of the Beastie Boys on Friday to cancer. While this has pained fans of the man and his music, it's been wonderful to witness the various tributes across the cultural landscape. From great writers penning great words about Yau...

Adam Yauch died today. It wasn't completely unexpected. He'd been first diagnosed with cancer, in his parotid gland and a lymph node, in 2009, and underwent surgery and radiation at the time. The then-upcoming Beastie Boys album Hot Sauce Committee, ...

After losing acting titan Ben Gazzara, 81, to pancreatic cancer the morning of February 3, the entertainment world took another hit when legendary softcore director Zalman King passed away Friday after his own battle with cancer at age 70. Gazzara an...

Is there any way to separate the Internet hatred of Lana Del Rey from her (sort of surprisingly good) album?

Last night, the New York Times Arts & Leisure Weekend event series came to a close with a conversation between Seth Rogen and screenwriter Will Reiser. The two collaborated on the cancer comedy 50/50, but go back a little ways farther than that. ...

I produce movies for a living, which used to be the best job in the history of jobs. Not the actual "making them" part, but more importantly the "talking about them" part. Everywhere I went, I was the belle of the ball. I'd go to a benefit for cancer...

Headed to the movie theater this weekend? Here are the new trailers you might miss while waiting in line for popcorn. 50/50 (September 30) In 50/50, Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays an urban twenty-something battling cancer. This is the film's second t...