CULTURE

Into every family holiday gathering, a little TV viewing must fall. TheWrap's gift to you: a list of TV marathons lengthy and diverse enough to make sure everyone in the house has something to whet their appetites, TV-wise.

A gaunt and breathless George Michael tearfully thanked his doctors and fans on Friday for seeing him through a touch and go battle with pneumonia.

Country singer Taylor Swift will lead a host of musicians collaborating with Oscar-winning artist T. Bone Burnett for a companion album to the upcoming film, The Hunger Games.

Mel Gibson's marriage to Robyn Gibson is officially over.

Tamara Llagas was named winner at the Miss Sevilla pageant in the Andalusian capital of Seville Thursday.

Louis Vuitton has filed a lawsuit in federal court in New York after alleging that a hand bag featured in the movie, The Hangover II, is fake.

Twilight actress Ashley Greene, halted traffic in Times Square on Thursday as she unveiled a DKNY Jeans billboard that she stared in.

It was a nude photo shoot even a father could love. Lindsay Lohan's appearance in this month's issue of Playboy has received Michael Lohan's endorsement.

Angelina Jolie didn't plan on directing a movie. But the more she learned about the 1990s Bosnia war, the more she felt responsible for bringing it home to her generation.

Actor Robert De Niro and his wife Grace Hightower have become the proud parents of a baby girl born via a surrogate, the actor's spokesman confirmed on Friday.

Oskar Schell is on a quest. The boy has found a key belonging to his father, who perished in the World Trade Center towers on 9/11. The key was in a small envelope on which the word Black was written and Oskar believes, if he can just find the lock to which the key belongs, he will discover a secret message from his dead dad.

An emotional Melanie Amaro won the TV singing contest The X Factor on Thursday, earning a $5 million recording contract and closing the first U.S. season of the heavily hyped Fox show.

The season finale of The X Factor enjoyed a sizable boost over last week to hand Fox an easy win Thursday night, according to preliminary numbers.

Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, starring Ewan McGregor and Emily Blunt, will open the Palm Springs International Film Festival January 5, organizers said Thursday.

Confession time: I love Steven Spielberg's screen adaptation of The Color Purple, but I can't defend it. The music, the cinematography, the performances, and everything else about it has been painstakingly designed to manipulate an emotional response, and even though I can see the strings, I fall for it every time.

Grammy-winning singer Etta James, who has been deemed terminally ill with leukemia, has been hospitalized in California and placed on a breathing machine, her long-time manager and friend said on Friday.

As one of the stars of Comedy Central's slacker comedy Workaholics, Blake Anderson might not be a fan of back-breaking labor. Back-breaking recreation, on the other hand ...

Lawyers for actor Mel Gibson and his estranged wife Robyn submitted a proposed divorce settlement to a judge on Friday, moving the pair closer to finalizing their split after 31 years of marriage.

Rapper Tyler, The Creator was arrested on suspicion of felony vandalism on Thursday, following a show at a nightclub on the famed Sunset Strip, police said.

You can't accuse Ryan Murphy of getting overly sentimental about his characters: The Glee co-creator, who caused a serious stir with plans to overhaul the cast of the Fox show, plans a largely new cast and completely new setting for the second season of the FX horror drama American Horror Story.

X Factor winner Melanie Amaro opens up about her big win, her new album, and describes how she plans to spend her newfound $5 million prize money.

Michael was fighting for his life in Vienna

Lauren Weinberg, the Arizona University student who was stranded for nine days in her car under a heavy snow coat, was released from the hospital on Thursday.

Taylor Swift tweets link to Hunger Games song Safe and Sound.

Since the release of the trailer and the six-minute prologue, there have been many rumors surrounding The Dark Knight Rises. The Dark Knight Rises is the highly anticipated third installment to Christopher Nolan's Batman series. Nolan promises an epic tale that will have viewers on the edge of their seats.

The first time was luck. The second time, coincidence. The third time...well fine, he's a supermodel magnet. After dating Gisele Bündchen and Bar Refaeli, 37-year-old Leonardo DiCaprio nabbed himself another supermodel girlfriend; This time he's dating Victoria's Secret model Erin Heatherton.

Warner Bros. has announced that The Dark Knight Rises trailer was downloaded more than 12.5 million times within the first 24 hours of its release on iTunes Monday, breaking the record of over 10 million set by the trailer for The Avengers, which was released on iTunes in October, according to reports.

Parodies were also a huge hit this year.

The divorce battle between Michaele Salahi and her husband, Tareq, is beginning to get a lot uglier. TMZ reported that court documents show that the former Real Housewives of D.C. has said her husband was a violent control freak and who he used psychotic scare tactic that made her fear for her physical safety.