“Oscar” on The Daily Caller

Since she revealed her amazing body transformation in April, Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Hudson has lost an additional 20 lbs. “I didn’t expect to go as far as I did!” the Weight Watchers spokesperson told PEOPLE in New York City, where she launched the Lose for Good campaign, which teaches families how to prepare healthy low-cost meals in an effort to help fight hunger and obesity. (more)

Juliette Binoche is the most glamorous, the highest paid and the best-loved actress in France. She is so revered that newspapers now simply refer to her by her surname. (more)

Has Queen Amidala turned to the dark side? (more)

LOS ANGELES — In the glory days of the 1990s, Ben Affleck and his friend Matt Damon, a couple of struggling actors, startled Hollywood by writing brilliantly conceived roles for themselves into a screenplay called “Good Will Hunting,” and picking up an Oscar for their effort. (more)

Patricia Neal, the molasses-voiced actress who won an Academy Award and a Tony but whose life alternated surreally between triumph and tragedy, died at her home in Edgartown, Mass., on Sunday. She was 84 and lived in Manhattan and Martha’s Vineyard. (more)

At 13.5 inches high, and with the heft of a bag of oranges, an Oscar can go just about anywhere. (more)

Grab your pipe, your silk pajamas and a pneumatic blonde . . . or seven. We’re all living in Hef’s world now. “It has been suggested that in social-sexual sense we now live in a Playboy world, and I think there’s some truth to that,” says Hugh Hefner. “You can now have sex outside of marriage, nice moral kids can now live together outside of marriage, birth control is legal now, abortion is legal now. All those things were part of the sexual revolution that Playboy played a major part in.” (more)

The “world’s oldest profession” has long been a favorite subject in novels, plays, films and television. Real-life madams such as Sydney Biddle Barrows, a.k.a. the Mayflower Madam, and Heidi Fleiss, the Hollywood Madam, have captured the attention of the media and filmmakers for decades. (more)

Germany’s publicly-funded international broadcaster Deutsche Welle held its third annual “Global Media Forum” last week in Bonn. According to the conference website, this year’s event drew some 1500 participants from 95 countries. The topic: “The Heat is On: Climate Change and the Media.” (more)

The new feet are custom-made implants that “peg” the ankle to the foot. They are bioengineered to mimic the way deer antler bone grows through the skin. (more)

Bristol Palin is going Hollywood, making her acting debut on ABC Family’s ‘Secret Life of an American Teenager.’ In the episode, which airs July 5th, the 19-year-old mother of one and abstinence advocate tackles the thespian challenge of playing none other than herself. (more)

US TV host Oprah Winfrey has has been named the most powerful celebrity in the world by Forbes magazine. (more)

Sandra Bullock and Jesse James are no longer legally married. (more)

First an Oscar, now a Grammy in the cards for Sandra Bullock? (more)

“All that getting sanctioned by authority, settling down and doing the right things—well, I can’t say it appeals much,” Helen Mirren once said to a reporter. “What I really fancy is getting a bit notorious … ” (more)

It may be true, as “The A-Team’s” Col. John “Hannibal” Smith insists, that “overkill is underrated,” but you wouldn’t know it from this film. (more)

Her new movie may be called “Grown Ups,” but Salma Hayek had an infantile reaction when an unwanted snake paid her a visit during the film’s press junket last Friday. (more)

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Former Vice President Al Gore and his wife, Tipper, are separating after 40 years of marriage. (more)

Several weeks ago, Courtney Love revealed that the secret of her stellar ability in bed was, strangely, her homely appearance. While we don’t know many men who would risk communicable diseases for a chance with the rocker, it looks like the Hollywood crowd is fearless. (more)

Leigh Anne Tuohy, the no-nonsense adoptive mom who Sandra Bullock played in her Oscar-winning turn in The Blind Side, has met the actress’s 4-month-old son, Louis – and it was love at first sight. (more)