celebrities

Scott Gilmore: The health of a democracy is inversely proportional to the likelihood a celebrity will win the next leadership race

Miley Cyrus visited Canada to protest the wolf cull and riled up the B.C. premier. But why do people get so annoyed at celebrities with causes?

In which the year’s biggest personalities make a PB&J sandwich in their own special way

Brian D. Johnson on the nature of celebrity from Meryl to the Bieb

1. Authors Margaret Atwood and Graeme Gibson: Atwood had just been passed over for the Governor General’s Award for poetry in 1970 when she attended a party for another slighted poet, Milton Acorn, at Grossman’s Tavern in Toronto. Acorn received the first People’s Poet award that night from supportive peers—including Atwood and Graeme Gibson. Gibson was another loser that year, in the fiction category, and Atwood reportedly said to him, “I thought your book should have won the Governor General’s Award.” In the ensuing years, he would photograph and interview her; they became lovers and partners after his marriage to Shirley Gibson had ended.

Jessica Allen on what’s shaping up to be Hollywood’s new standard of beauty

James Cameron is the King of the World, when it comes to money and fame

Why was the Oscar-nominated actor there?

Twilight Star Robert Pattinson makes his debut

How Stephen Harper ended up hobnobbing with the world’s megastars

Photos: This year’s film festival boasts some of the biggest names in the business

Some celebs just want an instructor. Others want a whole lot more. Can someone please get me a private ice cave?