Bill Maher

Host of HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher"

Everything Republicans say can't or won't work, California is making work. And everything conservatives claim will unravel the fabric of our society has only made California stronger. And all we had to do to accomplish that was vote out every single Republican.

Maureen Ryan

TV critic, The Huffington Post

Earnestness in a Showtime program full of naked bodies? It's true. Believe it.

Jackson Browne

Singer/Songwriter

The problem is not the things we like, it's the way we do business. It's the way huge corporations handle distributing goods, maximizing profits. We absolutely have the power to turn this around, to whatever extent that we really want to turn it around.

Candy Spelling

Author

It's been more than once where I've been with friends at lunch or even more formal holiday meals and everyone is preoccupied with capturing the moment so they can post it. The flow of conversation is broken up by taking a "selfie."

Kia Makarechi

Entertainment Editor, The Huffington Post

For some, it was just another time that Angry/Crazy/Unhinged Kanye West let his ego get the best of him. Those people are basic.

Tavis Smiley

PBS talk show host, PRI radio host, NYT bestselling author

Tonight on PBS, I sit down with Bob Newhart who, after seven nominations and over 50 years in show business, recently won his first Emmy.

Zaki Hasan

Media Scholar and Critic, zakiscorner.com

Joseph Gordon-Levitt has been working regularly on stage and screen since the tender age of four, amassing a list of credits during his three decades in Hollywood that would be impressive at any age.

Binky Philips

Music aficionado

He'd been instructed to remove his boots in the elevator. Most of John and Yoko's apartment was fitted with white carpeting. A foyer door opened, and there stood ... John and Yoko. Boi-oi-oing!

Mindy Tucker

Photographer

Ted Danson and Andrew Sharpless

Yesterday the Washington Post published a dangerously misleading article about farmed salmon. Lauding improvements in the salmon farming industry, they assert that farmed salmon is a viable alternative to wild-caught fish. We'd like to set the record straight: farmed salmon is a terrible choice for our oceans.

Melissa Sher

Writer and blogger, Mammalingo.com

The Tanning Mom had her thing. The Tiger Mom had her thing. The woman who put her young daughter on a diet and then wrote about it in a magazine had a thing -- and now she has a book. She got to write an entire book about her thing.

The Daily Meal

TheDailyMeal.com

Unexpected celebrities that own franchises of well-known chains.

Dagmara Domińczyk

Actress, author

I don't wilt in the aftermath and this is a new and hopeful thing. I can, in fact, exist without him, and without the others. It is a lesson learned: the heart regenerates with the best of them. The road to love is a winding one, 'til you reach the end and you reach The One.

Daylle Deanna Schwartz

Founder, The Self-Love Movement; Author, Nice Girls Can Finish First

I wish celebrities would close their fairy tale books and start respecting marriage by not jumping into it and then getting divorced. They're teaching girls that marriage is disposable and the commitment doesn't have to last.

Anthony Papa

Manager, Media Relations, Drug Policy Alliance

On the night of the Emmy awards, actor Michael Douglas used his win for his performance in Behind the Candelabra to speak out against the U.S. prison system.

Alisa Wolfson

Sure, we've all decided on our favorite looks from the Emmy's. Some of us even had opinions before the stars set foot out of their cars. Like me with Lena Dunham. I always know she's going to look mildly disheveled. Is that fair? No. Is it true? Yes.

Austin Considine

Senior Editor, Christies.com

"His work spoke to me in a way where I thought about how adults underestimate kids all the time. When you are a child, you feel underestimated. And as an adult, you underestimate the power and the acuity or the abilities of children in certain ways."

Sheryl Crow and Andrew Sharpless

Imagine you are in the ocean. You hear the lapping of waves, the squeals of dolphins, and the swish of swimming schools of fish -- all sounds you expect to hear underwater. But then a boat glides overhead, and the chatter is drowned by a deafening roar.

Jon Steely

Los Angeles-based writer

Pauley Perrette does not hold back her feelings. She can be pretty hardcore and pretty intense, but her intensity is beautifully balanced by a playful, childlike quality, not dissimilar to her character's -- gothic forensic scientist Abby Sciuto -- on NCIS.

Crystal Mei Yuk Lee

Miss Hawaii, 2013

Deep down I'm competitive. I don't like letting anyone down, especially my own state. Throughout the competition I stayed very focused. I knew who I was, what I was there for and what I wanted to do as Miss America.

Michele Willens

Journalist, playwright and editor, 'Face It: What Women Really Feel as Their Looks Change'

In Enough Said, 52-year-old Dreyfus has never looked more fetching, and the late, great Gandolfini is finally allowed to be a leading man who looked like -- well, like a lot of the leading men in our own lives.

Sydney Levin

Head of video programming, AOL.com

We open with Melissa and Joe in the bathroom, which is a fitting setting for all the sh-- they're talking. They've got a really bad taste in their mouths -- and this time, it's actually not from the self-tanner they ingest.