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The Dark Knight Rises is still more than half a year from its release date, but that doesn't mean it's too early to start teasing, enticing, bedeviling and pretty much tormenting the public with maddeningly cryptic hints about the superhero film's contents.

Italian fashion designer Valentino Garavani along with his business partner Giancarlo Giammetti launched his virtual museum on Wednesday at the IAC Headquarters in New York City attended by stars and socialites.

The Drop climbed to the top of the Publishers Weekly best-sellers list on Thursday.The list is compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide.

For more than 40 years actor Martin Sheen has inhabited complex characters from the troubled Capt. Willard in the Vietnam film Apocalypse Now to U.S. President Josiah Bartlet on the hit TV drama The West Wing.

Jay-Z will headline the first ever hip-hop focused series of performances at New York's Carnegie Hall in February 2012, with all proceeds benefiting children's education charities.

Jamie Bell fans know the actor has come a long way since he pranced on Billy Elliot, a film for which he scored the BAFTA award for best actor.

A storm packing hurricane-force winds hit Scotland and northern England on Thursday, closing roads and cancelling flights across the UK.

At Virginia Tech's Lane Stadium, Virginia Tech officials and local law enforcement met with the press to disclose all the information they had on today's horrific shooting, including a timeline of the killings, whether the second victim may have been the shooter, and connections to the infamous 2007 massacre. Read live coverage of the conference here.

Juno writer-directors Diablo Cody and Jason Reitman are back again with a dark comedy with characters who are older, but not necessarily wiser

No matter her audacity, the Material Girl is only as good as her material, and Madonna has only half a movie here.

At this point, Alec Baldwin might have to resort to traveling by hang-glider soon.

On a night that saw declines pretty much across the board, Fox's new comedy I Hate My Teenage Daughter was hit particularly hard, while CBS took an overall win for the night and ABC's Modern Family was the top-rated show, according to preliminary numbers.

Could Maverick fly again?

Kirk Douglas may be turning 95 on Friday, but he is in top shape and more active than ever in his efforts to help the poor and homeless in Los Angeles.

Rapper Sean Paul is promising to surprise fans on upcoming album Tomahawk Technique with more singing that his last record and several collaborations with singers including Kelly Rowland.

Lindsay Lohan plans to unveil her Playboy pictorial spread on The Ellen DeGeneres Show on Dec. 15, although the magazine cover has already been leaked online.

After considering a move to downtown Los Angeles, the American Film Market has decided to remain in Santa Monica through 2017.

The film, based on Nicholas Sparks' novel, opens in theaters in April.

Marg Helgenberger, who plays the character Catherine Willows on the hit TV show CSI, is the latest original cast member to leave the crime show. Oscar nominee Elisabeth Shue will join the CSI cast as a replacement for Helgenberger.

Angelina Jolie looks absolutely radiant on the January cover of Marie Claire magazine, in which she discusses family, friends and her new movie.

The details of the killing on Dec. 8, 1980 are sadly familiar to almost everyone who remembers that awful event.

“The Office” star Ellie Kemper is officially engaged to writer Michael Koman. Koman wrote for shows like “Eagleheart,” “The Colbert Report” and “Late Night with Conan O’Brien.”

Rapper 50 Cent is adding another book to his bibliography.

Some are speculating that Annie Stensrud, a Minnesota news anchor, might have been drunk while broadcasting live after footage leaked of her bizarre and erratic newscast.

The Virginia Tech shooting suspect is still at large, and university officials are preparing a press conference to address the media as State Police search the campus and surrounding areas. Watch video footage of the immediate aftermath of two killings, and find out where to watch live coverage of the VA Tech shootings.

The new screen adaptation of John le Carre's classic spy novel Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy should be rated S for Wear a sweater.

he op-ed came on the heels of a series of bombings in Mumbai that killed almost two dozen people in mid-July.

The stronger the villain, the more the hero has to win in the end. That was the thinking process of Jerry Robinson, a legend of the Golden Age of DC Comics, when he created the Joker, the greatest Batman villain of all time. I interviewed Robinson in 2008: here are the comics legend's thoughts on Batman, Heath Ledger and the future of comics.

The Virginia Tech shootings, which have claimed two lives so far, comes the same week that families who lost loved ones in the 2007 massacre moved to prosecute the school for its slow response time to Seung-Hui Cho's shooting spree four and a half years ago. As State Police search for the shooter, rumors that the two cases are linked remain unsubstantiated.