Cassandra Rose is a freelance writer and an avid bibliophile with a B.A. from Rutgers University in English and Medieval Studies. On the rare occasion that real life isn't getting in the way, she spends her free time being snarky under the Twitter handle yrchmonger and contributing to the literary blog Bibliomantics. She currently lives in New Jersey where she was raised on a steady diet of Mel Brooks, British comedies and pop culture.
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The History Channel Denies Any Similarities Between President Obama + Satan in ‘The Bible’
After receiving some judgment for seemingly styling their character of the devil after President Barack Obama, people behind the History Channel's mini-series 'The Bible' are denying any similarities between the leader of the free world and their depiction of Satan.
Lindsay Lohan Is Glitterbombed Before Finally Agreeing to a Plea Deal + Rehab [PHOTOS]
A tired, pale and raspy Lindsay Lohan finally showed up in an L.A. court room today, March 18, about 45 minutes late to her trial for lying to the police in that car accident case from 2011. (As previously reported, she missed multiple flights before finally hopping a private jet to make it to the hearing.)
The bottom line: She finally wised up and took a plea deal.
President Barack Obama + The History Channel’s Satan – Celebrity Doppelgangers
The History Channel is trying a new approach to draw in viewers: serialized fictional dramas like 'The Bible' and 'Game of Vikings' 'Vikings.' Strangely enough for something on the History Channel, neither program has pickers or pawn shops, and the 10-hour live-action version of the Bible has a Beelzebub who looks suspiciously like President Barack Obama.
Scathing political commentary? Or a makeup
Lil Wayne Enters His Sixth Day in the Hospital
Rapper Lil Wayne is going on day six of his time in the ICU at Cedars-Sinai hospital in L.A. after seizures rendered him unconscious last Wednesday, March 13.
Weezy's now on the road to recovery -- this following an overdose of sizzurp that resulted in him reportedly having his stomach pumped three times, after which TMZ practically threw dirt on his body despite assurances from his friends that
Elisabeth Hasselbeck Really Is Being Booted from ‘The View’ + Barbara Walters Is Mad It Was Leaked
Things have been a tad messy for the lineup on 'The View,' with long-running host Joy Behar leaving, Brooke Shields rumored to be taking her place and right-wing conservative Elisabeth Hasselbeck facing firing rumors that Barbara Walters herself denied on the show last week.
Publicly, anyway. Behind closed doors? Well, that's another story.
Celebrities We’d Love to Party With
Ah, St. Patrick's Day. That glorious day where not wearing green could get you heckled or pinched, and alcoholism is celebrated rather than frowned upon. To celebrate (in ways that don't include dying beer green or expanding our livers), we put our collective noggins together and came up with the celebrities we'd most like to party with.
Kate Moss Got All Bashful When She Read a ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ Excerpt for Charity [VIDEO]
A while back, interview and microphone-shy supermodel Kate Moss promised BBC1 listeners that if they donated at least £200,000 (that's roughly $300,000 USD) to the Comic Relief charity, she'd read an excerpt from “erotic” mom-porn novel 'Fifty Shades of Grey' live on the air.
They did -- so on Thursday, March 14, Moss held up her end of the bargain.
Even ‘Jeopardy’ Is Using Taylor Swift as a Punchline Now [PHOTO]
Wow, long-running game show 'Jeopardy' is basically giving away the answers these days. Particularly when one of their questions threw some shade and made it apparent that the name they were looking for was oft-lovelorn Taylor Swift.
Just cut the contestants a check already, Alex Trebek.
Once Upon a Time, Robert Pattinson Was an Underwear Model in Japan [PHOTOS]
Way back at the ripe old age of 14, before he became the sparkly vampire that would make him famous, a now 26-year-old Robert Pattinson channeled his best androgynous duck-face and modeled underwear in Japan. And now he kind of regrets ever doing it.
Deposition Reveals Kim Kardashian Is a Liar, But That Kris Humphries Knew It All Along
Kris Humphries is currently in the midst of suing estranged wife Kim Kardashian, claiming their marriage was fraudulent so he can get an annulment rather than a divorce -- which would nullify the non-disclosure agreement he signed before they tied the knot.
Unfortunately for him, a deposition may have revealed that he was in on the fraud all along, re-shooting a scene of him proposing to Kim for '