CULTURE

The Courage Campaign wants reality TV star Kim Kardashian to endorse the Millionaires Tax of 2012, a statewide ballot initiative that seeks to levy a higher tax rate on Californians who make more than $1 million a year. Their new ad pointedly explains that Kardashian made $12 million in 2010, significantly more than the average Californian whose income was $47,000.

Vogue has chosen its top 10 models of 2011. Here are this year's winning ladies.

Kendall Jenner, 16, the younger sister of American reality television star Kim Kardashian, is not a fan of big parties. She was reportedly upset on Monday night's special episode of Keeping up with the Kardashian and snapped back at her mother, Kris Jenner, who tried to relocate her birthday party to the Bahamas.

Gisele Bundchen and Tom Brady will solidify their fairytale lifestyle when the supermodel and her quarterback hubby move into their $20 million Los Angeles dream home.

The Academy Award statuette, given to famed American film director-actor, Orson Welles, for his 1941 classic Citizen Kane, has fetched $861,542 at a Los Angeles auction held on Dec. 20.

It's been eight years since epic fantasy lovers were able to see a 'Lord of the Rings' film. Now, fans will finally be able to go back to Middle Earth with the trailer for Peter Jackson's upcoming film, 'The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey,' the first of a two-part prequel to the LOTR film trilogy.

French multinational luxury conglomerate, LVMH has increased its stake in rival company, Hermes to 22.3 percent from an initial 21.40 percent, according to France's stock market regulator, Autorite des marches financiers (AMF).

After almost 10 years since the first installment of The Lord of the Rings film was seen in theaters, middle earth is getting much closer, as the first trailer The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, a prequel to the trilogy, was revealed on Tuesday.

Kate Middleton or, if one was to be official - Catherine, the Duchess of Cambridge - exuded elegance and style, as she attended a military awards ceremony, The Night of Heroes: The Sun Military Awards at the Imperial War Museum in central London, on Monday. The resemblance to Princess Diana was, in many ways, striking.

Former Miss Venezuela Eva Ekvall, who died of breast cancer at a very young age of 28 Saturday, proved in her short span of life how a woman could put up a brave fight against the affliction.

Directed by Peter Jackson, who previously brought Oscar fame to Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Hobbit is a prequel to that trilogy. Many of the same actors from Lord of the Rings appear in The Hobbit.

For anyone who follows film, television, publishing and newspapers -- our culture industry -- Robert Levine, the former editor of Billboard and a New York Times alum, has written a must-read book.

An electronics company engineer who the U.S. government considers a one-man sperm bank has fathered an estimated 14 children through free donations of his semen that he advertises over the Internet.

After a miserable few weeks at the box office, Hollywood is counting on a flurry of big movies hitting theaters starting Tuesday to reinvigorate its business.

Netflix Instant can't wash your car. An IMAX sound system can't pilot an aircraft carrier. And motion-capture animation can't make non-creepy-looking human characters. All that may change one day, but the technology hasn't yet caught up.

Jay Mohr has landed a role in Burt Wonderstone, New Line's comedy starring Jim Carrey, Steve Carell, Olivia Wilde, Steve Buscemi and James Gandolfini, TheWrap has learned.

It's another day, another lawsuit for the Jersey Shore crew.

The London Film Critics Circle, which this year moved its awards a few weeks earlier so as not to become an awards-season afterthought, has given Tomas Alfredson's Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and Nicolas Winding Refn's Drive the most nominations for its 32nd annual Film Awards.

The Chinese box office is on track to break the U.S. equivalent of $2 billion by the end of the year, according to a recent report from the country's State Administration of Radio, Film and Television.

There is a new Harry Potter set in sight, at Leavesden Studios in Hertfordshire, which has finally been unveiled, to the delight of fans of the book and film series.

Italian designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana have openly displayed their disapproval of mass collections and collaborations with fashion retail stores like H&M and Target.

Italian designer Giambattista Valli has been awarded the Haute Couture appellation by Paris Fédération Française de la Couture.

The new mega-mansion Gisele Bundchen and her husband Tom Brady is almost complete in Los Angeles.

At just 22, Rybolovleva now owns the 6,744-sq-ft property that was originally listed by Citigroup chairman Sandy Weill back in November. She recently purchased the apartment located at 15 Central Park West.

What do Ben Roethlisberger's Super Bowl choke and Two and a Half Men's send-off to deceased cad Charlie Harper have in common? They were the most-TiVo'ed moments on television in 2011.

Community fans are planning a flash mob at Rockefeller Center on Thursday afternoon to save the show, which has been pulled from NBC's midseason schedule.

Monterey Media has acquired U.S. rights to the romantic comedy Take Me Home, TheWrap has learned.

Elvis may have left the building -- and the planet, for that matter -- but he's not done racking up accolades.

Comedian Frank DeCaro is best known for his stint on The Daily Show with John Stewart but the comedian and talk radio host is now dishing out recipes.