How well do you know famous actors, musicians, athletes, newsmakers, and other celebrities? In Celebrity Goo Game, a distorted photograph of a famous person (a "goo") is published daily, along with a few hints. Guess correctly and you'll enter the monthly competition, where each winner earns a gift-card prize.


Today's Goo

Literature, May 18

Literature

It's a good thing that publishers rejected her early manuscripts about an investigator so unremarkable that he may as well have been named Guy Detective, because as she conducted a post-mortem on the failed project, she realized correctly that a forensic scientist would make a far more compelling and long-running protagonist, especially if she looked like Nicole Kidman.

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Other Current Goos

Cuisine

The fifth of six siblings turned his family-table experiences with his famous sister and infamous brother into a Food Network series and a cookbook for families who eats as much as they do. Go »

Military

In his government job, he was so committed to the plan to rebuild what he had blow up in his military job that he became the only American general to receive a prize for peace. Go »

Movies

Long before his current blockbuster about a singer who faced criminal charges and was fond of military-style jackets, he made a series of action movies about soldiers and law enforcement officers, starring Denzel Washington as a corrupt narcotics officer, Bruce Willis as a Navy SEAL on a rescue, Denzel Washington as an equalizing retired Marine, Mark Wahlberg as a framed sniper, and Denzel Washington as an Old Western warrant officer. Go »

Television

Next on the newsradio: This normal Nebraska man is a nobody among nobodies. Go »

Justice

By the time this LAPD officer made Deputy Chief, she didn't have to tolerate jokes about lacey frills on her uniform, not even from her husband after he got famous himself by presiding over a celebrity trial. Go »

Sports

Among boys' action figures of the 1980s, the two dominant styles were the bulky muscle-men of the Masters of the Universe and the smaller, more articulated troops of G.I. Joe. This man should know, as he became both of them. Go »