George Takei

Social media star

I was just five years old, and would spend much of my childhood behind barbed wire in that camp and, later, another in California called Tule Lake. One hundred twenty thousand other Japanese Americans from the West Coast suffered a similar fate.

Mike Ragogna

Music Biz Vet

Mohamed A. El-Erian

CEO and co-CIO, PIMCO

Billy Elliot is more than a remarkable musical. It is a window on recurrent struggles that many face; and more should be done to empower and enable them to succeed.

Chris Harnick

News Editor, HuffPost TV

Is it a good thing or a bad thing when Stockard Channing is the best thing about an episode of "The Good Wife"? Veronica's very impromptu conversation with Will -- "You have a window that is closing ... you have to move now" -- really delivered.

Pat Gallagher

Freelance Writer

Doing The Following is a very dark place for me to go. You can't really underestimate what kind of toll that that takes -- as much as I love it -- to go to a place of murder and mayhem, chasing a killer, killing somebody or being shot at.

Joanna Rothkopf

Associate editor, The Huffington Post

If the "Veep" premiere was about making us feel great to be a part of Selina's inner circle, this week's episode was about lassoing that positivity and throwing it into a pit of mud and poo. The Veep's office got dark, mean, and, most of all, polit-i-cal.

Jesse Kornbluth

Editor of HeadButler.com

Christmas comes early this year. And if you are good girls and boys, you will now do whatever you must to get your hands on a great present: "Nomad," 40 minutes of music by an African guitarist who's called Bombino.

John Farr

Editor, bestmoviesbyfarr.com

I started thinking about the key role costume design plays in making a classic period film work. My top 10 picks stand as great films on their own, but in each case, the stunning costume work really adds to the impact.

James Franco

Actor and author

It's my 35th birthday, not that anyone should care. Here's a poem I wrote on my 31st birthday. I have done a few things in the past four years, but this poem still captures how I feel on my birthday.

Dan Persons

Film journalist

In Family Weekend, Kristin Chenoweth plays one of the victims of a therapeutic kidnapping gone comedically haywire. We got to talk with her about the role and the challenges of performing while immobilized.

Charles Karel Bouley

On-air host, KGO Radio; TV personality, comic, author, actor, writer/producer/director and dog walker

These celebrities aren't pretending and this is not make believe. This is 10 laps of 1.97 miles each at 100-mile-per-hour plus speeds. It's fast, and things can go wrong.

Shawn Amos

Freshwire

As Coachella wraps up tonight, thousands of kids will make their way back home after a weekend of soaking up the sun, the music and plenty of corporate branding.

Laura Prudom

Associate Television Editor, The Huffington Post

Although Season 3's earlier entries were more self-contained, to enable new viewers to jump on board, "Nikita" has been on an unbroken hot streak since "Intersection," raising the stakes and ramping up the action with each new installment.

Chris Jancelewicz

Lead Entertainment Editor, Huffington Post Canada

For the first 10 episodes of House Of Cards, there has been a layer of secrecy and double-dealing over everything. With Peter's very public implosion, that layer has disintegrated, and the characters on the show have no choice but to reveal their truths. This is the moment before checkmate. It's make-or-break for Frank.

Patricia Bosworth

Contributing Editor, Vanity Fair

Alec really loves theatre. He had once challenged himself by starring as Stanley in a Broadway revival of Streetcar and he was swaggering, vulgar, and very, very funny, playing the character like a wiseguy and a baby.

Binky Philips

Music aficionado

I look back with sentimental longing for a time when I almost got my ass handed to me by actual Good Fellas... plus, a few quick bonus tales of first-hand mob woe for dessert. A name or two has been changed, okay.

Michael Giltz

Freelance writer

Clifford Odets's image as a Serious Writer whose work became dated and self-important almost as soon as it left his typewriter has proven more durable than that magic act.