CULTURE

Sometimes it's hard not to think that David Lynch's fixation on transcendental meditation isn't a joke the filmmaker is playing on us. Is there any major artist whose entire body of work has seemed more ominous, more filled with sinister intonations, less meditative? Mantras don't come much scarier than fire walk with me.

K5 International has nabbed international rights to Benaroya Pictures' Elvis & Nixon, the companies said Tuesday.

Hip hop artist Heavy D‘s unexpected and tragic death at the age of 44 on Tuesday afternoon in Los Angeles has shocked his family, friends and fans, and his last words on Twitter have taken on an eerie feel.

The beloved rapper died afternoon in Los Angeles, one of his associates says, according to a report by TMZ that said sources in the hospital where he passed away said he died of a heart attack, but that an associate also told the Web site that Heavy had pneumonia.

Former Houston Rockets player Yao Ming, 31, who retired from basketball in July, is now a freshman at a management school at an elite university in Shanghai.

Mariah Carey showed off her dramatic weight loss on Rosie O'Donnell's show, shedding off over 70 pounds from her post-baby body.

Troubled actress Lindsay Lohan will appear nude on pornographic magazine Playboy, Lohan's spokesman confirmed on Monday, after the star served several hours in prison on weekends for violating probation on drunken driving and theft charges .

An over-the-top wedding followed by a whipsaw divorce is leading to what can only be called Kardashian backlash.

Sunday was a good night for bad behavior in the cable-ratings race.

Find Cops to be a little too high-brow? TLC has the show for you.

J. Edgar Hoover, America's revered and feared controversial top cop for five decades, was one of the most secretive men in government, keeping covert files on powerful figures including President John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.

Nominations for the annual People's Choice Awards were announced on Tuesday, with popular films like the final Harry Potter and the latest Pirates of the Caribbean and their actors among nominees.

The booze-fueled misadventures of Edina Monsoon and Patsy Stone could be getting the big-screen treatment.

Rapper Heavy D, who scored hit singles such as Now That We Found Love, died on Tuesday after falling at his Beverly Hills home, according to media reports. He was 44.

When artists break free from the bands that have always defined them to take up solo careers, some celebrate their emancipation with radical musical departures. Others adhere to the old group's sound as much as possible, either out of fear, habit, or a desire to prove once and for all that they were the brains of the band.

19 Kids and Counting stars Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar are expecting the birth of their 20th child, the couple said on Tuesday, predicting they would yet again change the name of their reality TV show.

J. Edgar Hoover, America's revered and feared controversial top cop for five decades, was one of the most secretive men in government, keeping covert files on powerful figures including President John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.

Ousted Spider-man director Julie Taymor sued the Broadway musical's producers on Tuesday for copyright infringement, claiming the show that was revamped after she left retained some of her original work.

Graham Nash and David Crosby played a brief concert on Tuesday for Occupy Wall Street protesters, a sign of support from members of a rock band whose songs became anthems of the anti-Vietnam War era.

She was among the most photographed celebrities of her day, and he is among the top pop stars of his. But whose pictures are worth more -- Marilyn Monroe or Justin Bieber?

Nominations for the annual People's Choice Awards were announced on Tuesday, with popular films like the final Harry Potter and the latest Pirates of the Caribbean and their actors among nominees.

Rapper Heavy D, who scored hit singles such as Now That We Found Love, died on Tuesday after falling at his Beverly Hills home, according to media reports. He was 44.

The rapper best known for recording Now That We've Got Love and the theme song to In Living Color died at the age of 44 Tuesday afternoon, and the world wants to know how they lost a great rapper so young.

The reality TV stars Jim Bob, 46, and Michelle Duggar, 45, are expecting their 20th child in April, 2012, the couple revealed on Today Tuesday morning.

Picture This: Stars at the premiere for Immortals.

Heavy D is dead at 44, TMZ reports, and he’s headed to the Thugz Mansion -- or wherever it is that great rappers go when they die -- to join the Notorious B.I.G., who immortalized the lesser-known Heavy in his rap classic “Juicy.”

Tracey Gold will host the controversial Lifetime show

The full track of Madonna's Give Me All Your Love leaked online on Tuesday.

Jamaican reggae fusion singer-songwriter Diana King released her new album AgirLnaMeKING on Tuesday, the same day she celebrated her 41st birthday.