Celebrities — Chelsea Clinton or Kim Kardashian — are paid what the market will bear

Talons drawn, the media have descended upon Chelsea Clinton. Again.
Not for her frizzy hair, now smoothed with a killer blowout, or for that preteen metal mouth, now braces-free and pearly white.

This time the attacks are over how much money she makes — for her network television fluff pieces and well-attended gigs on the lecture circuit — despite her stick-thin résumé.

Why are celebrities so drawn to Scientology?

This post is part of the Points Summer Book Club discussion of Lawrence Wright’s “Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief.”

When Tom Cruise is an active and outspoken member of your church, your church is going to make headlines. There’s no way around it.

World Cup Final: Celebrities who got in the spirit

David Beckham and his three sons Brooklyn, Cruz and Romeo pose for a family photo together at the World Cup final.

Well the excitement of the World Cup may now be all over, but that doesn't mean the celebrations are finished!

I never wanted to be a celebrity: Lohan

LOS ANGELES, JUL 16 - Actress Lindsay Lohan says if she had her way, she wouldn’t be a “celebrity”. “People have certain perceptions of me. For a long time, people looked at me as kind of a celebrity, which is something I never anted. That’s not what I got into this industry for,” she said in an nterview.

As tech moves beyond nerd turf, celebrities take note

The tech and entertainment industries have long had a close relationship

While tech has always enjoyed a reputation as the exclusive dominion of a certain nerd elite, it’s not immune to pop culture. It’s probably fair to say that tech expanded beyond nerd turf with the advent of the Internet and the rise of the Web video and YouTube, illegal music downloads via Napster, which led to streaming video and music services and more.