Ben Stiller

It’s what every child dreams of: night falls, the lights are out and suddenly the inanimate objects that innocuously surround us during the day come to life. In the sequel to the its mightily successful, if faultily executed, 2006 predecessor, a film which raked in $250 million, Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian maintains all the franchise’s previous conceits but ratchets up the creativity and execution level.

Where’s Le Tigre and Ferrari?

Ben Stiller attended the world premiere of Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian in London last night and was all about his Blue Steel.

He was also all about business in the front and party in the back.

What’s up with the Michael Bay hair?

—Sasha Perl-Raver

While many stars would never shill for ice cream, cars, coffee or liquor in America, plenty of them do it overseas, a la Bill Murray in Lost in Translation.

Orson Welles, Audrey Hepburn, Leonardo DiCaprio, Keanu Reeves, Ben Stiller and George Clooney have all done Japanese ads but never American ones.

Yesterday director Spike Jonze, Lost in Translation director Sophia Coppola’s ex-husband, was shooting a commercial for Japanese cell phone company Softbank with Brad Pitt in Midtown Manhattan.

How else can Brad afford six babies?

Certain actors inhabit a role, and it doesn’t even seem possible that anyone else could have played that part.

What would Ace Ventura have been without Jim Carrey talking with his butt cheeks?

But Jim feels the same way about Ben Stiller in Meet the Parents, despite the fact it was a part Carrey created.

Give us your best Blue Steel!

Ben Stiller has confirmed he’s working on a sequel to Zoolander.

Stiller, who directed the film and starred as dim-witted male model Derek Zoolander  in the original movie, says, “I’ve been trying to get Zoolander 2 together and we’ve had a few scripts. I feel that is the sequel I really would like to do some day because I like the original and I would make sure it was something new and worthy of it first.”

Sometimes we forget what insanely good genes Ben Stiller has. With parents like Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara, how could he have not turned out to be ridiculously funny and talented?

Last night, the whole family, Anne, Ben, Ben’s wife Christine Taylor and Jerry, attended the Project ALS 11th Annual Benefit Gala at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City. ALS, commonly referred to as "Lou Gehrig Disease," is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and the spinal cord, slowly causing complete paralysis.

If you can get through the first five minutes of Tropic Thunder without panting for breath because you’re laughing so hard, you might want to see someone about that.

Ben Stiller’s latest directorial effort is the funniest movie we’ve seen in 2008, and when we say funny we mean weeping, snorting, wailing, slapping the person next to you, pleading for a break because you’re afraid you might pee your pants hilarious.

Robert Downey Jr. playing a white guy playing black guy? That’s got “Must See” written all over it.

Even before there was enough footage for a trailer, Tropic Thunder was one of the most talked-about comedies in Hollywood, mainly because of Downey’s own admission that he would have made a horrible mistake if his performance didn’t play well.