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Filmmakers Woody Allen, David Fincher, Martin Scorsese, Alexander Payne and France's Michel Hazanavicius were nominated for Directors Guild film awards Monday -- a honor that is often a key indicator of Oscar success.

Thousands gathered outside the Dolce & Gabbana flagship store in Hong Kong after the company's security guards reportedly banned a photographer from taking pictures of the store from the sidewalk earlier this week.

What do Selena Gomez, Demi Lovato and Vanessa Hudgens have in common? Sure all are stunning, elegant and successful people from the silver screen. But one thing that connects them, above all, is the fact that they all have debuted from the Disney club.

Rapper Snoop Dogg was arrested over the weekend after border control agents found what they said was a small amount of marijuana on his tour bus.

With frontman David Lee Roth back on board, American rock group Van Halen released Monday their first single and video with the flamboyant frontman in 27 years.

Katy Perry's dad has apologized for an anti-Semitic rant he made last week while preaching at an Ohio church.

There are people who try to grow up too fast - they're 18, so they're like, I'm not a kid anymore. People need to know I'm not a kid anymore. But at the end of the day, I'm not completely grown up, Bieber told V magazine.

Coachella is not only a music festival, it is a fashion show. Here are some ideas on what to wear this year.

Vegans, yogis and actors have joined the parody train.

When a restaurant can prove itself as a consistently reliable way to cure a hangover and please the taste-buds in a stylish room, the lines are guaranteed to be long, and in the case of Chelsea's Cookshop, all of the above have been true for years.

Singer Christina Aguilera has landed the cover of the February issue of Marie Claire and she isn't holding anything back, not even about her recent weight gain. I don't weigh myself - it's all about how I feel in my clothes.

Russell Brand may have been joking at the time, but an on camera removal of his wedding ring just one month before his divorce with Kate Perry, is being received as a bad omen.

In a private wedding ceremony on the Turks and Caicos Islands, British rocker Bryan Ferry has married his 36-years-younger girlfriend, Amanda Sheppard.

Kim Kardashian has been replaced by a French bulldog for Skechers' Super Bowl 2012 commercial.

Molly Sims and her husband are expecting their first baby

Mega church pastor Joel Osteen of Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas clarified his stance on sin, heaven and homosexuality on Oprah's Next Chapter late Sunday. I believe that homosexuality is shown as a sin in the scripture. I do, I do, Osteen says. When I read the scripture, I can't with good faith I can't see that it does not show that it is a sin.

Islamic leaders in India are trying to prevent author Salman Rushdie from entering the country for a literature festival.

Teen idol Justin Bieber turns 18 in March with a long and ambitious to-do list -- to still be around at 30, to be as famous as Michael Jackson, and to avoid singing about sex and drugs.

The Jason Wu for Target lookbook is finally here and the collection is surely something to swoon over.

Actress AnnaLynne McCord found out she had a nip-slip after she accidentally tweeted a topless picture of herself on Friday to random Twitter user @Meganraee. She was quick enough, though, to re-post a less frontal photo after a little bit of cropping and without even commenting on the inadvertent reveal.

Beyonce's baby, Blue Ivy Carter, is not even a week old and already she is a Twitter sensation and setting her own trend. Blue Ivy's name has led to some Twitters users to create the trending topic #mybeyoncebabyname, which now has dozens of people giving themselves names that are similar to Blue Ivy Crater's.

Even after Beyonce gave birth to baby Blue Ivy Carter, people are convinced that the singer was never pregnant. Rumors suggest that Blue Ivy Carter was born to a surrogate mother instead of Beyonce.

Amber Rose's new single Fame featuring her boyfriend Wiz Khalifa has dropped this morning, already drawing mixed reactions from listeners. The 28-year-old model gave PerezHilton.com the privilege of having the first listen to the new track.

Kevin Bacon and wife, Kyra Sedgwick, have lost a close family friend: their beloved pet pooch, Paulie.

The TSA wants to make one thing very clear: newfangled cupcakes in a jar are not OK!

Tickets go on sale on Friday.

Emmy award-winning actor Aaron Paul is engaged.

One woman was killed on Tuesday when prospective students waiting outside the University of Johannesburg in South Africa stampeded to get into the school's admissions office.

Chinese machinery maker Shandong Heavy Industry Group on Tuesday sealed a deal to take a 75 percent stake in debt-laden Italian yachtmaker Ferretti Group, the latest in a series of Chinese acquisitions of European brands.