CULTURE

Halloween 2011 falls on Monday but the parties are beginning on Saturday. If you are in the New York City area this weekend here is a list of places you should stop by.

Sean Combs. Whoopi Goldberg. Serena Williams. These are some of the familiar names you will recognize when The Black List opens Friday at the National Portrait Gallery featuring 50 of the most influential and successful living African America figures.

Anonymous, which opens tomorrow, wants to convince movie-goers that Shakespeare was a fraud. The movie's main success, however, is to illuminate how class-oriented and false the anti-Stratford argument- that Shakespeare's plays were written by somebody else- truly is, asserting as it does that a commoner could never be a genius.

Singer Marie Osmond was rushed to a hospital in Las Vegas with concerns about her voice following a show with her brother Donny, but was later diagnosed with bronchitis, her spokesman said on Thursday.

There’s more to Halloween in New York City than the Village Halloween Parade. Here’s a look at some of the best parties and events all over the city for the 2011 Halloween Weekend.

Sean Penn will direct his friend and method acting idol Robert De Niro in The Comedian.

Steven Spielberg's The Adventures of Tintin enjoyed a flurry of strong opening days in Europe this week, grossing $4.7 million in France, $237,776 in Belgium and $161,549 in Holland.

Omar Sharif sure is a stickler for manners.

The 27th annual Film Independent Spirit Awards will take place on February 25 in a tent on the beach in Santa Monica, Film Independent announced on Thursday.

Michael Jackson was getting large regular shots of a painkiller, along with Botox treatments, in the months before his death, a Los Angeles court heard on Thursday.

A Dumb and Dumber sequel, starring Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels and directed by the Farrelly brothers, is in the works, according to Deadline.com.

Prince Charles, claiming he is related to Vlad the Impaler of Dracula fame, is using the connection to his Transylvanian ancestor to help promote his interest in preserving Romania's forests. In an interview on upcoming TV show Wild Carpathia, the heir to the British throne praised the country for its timelessness, and said the link to his vampire kin gives him a stake in Transylvania's ecosystem.

The latest news on the floods in Bangkok and how it is affecting travel and tourism in the region.

It’s time to put together a costume Los Angeles; here are the best Halloween events the city has to offer all weekend long for both the kids and adults.

Kim Kardashian told People magazine that her current living situation as a newlywed is not ideal. It's not ideal because you're newlyweds and you want privacy, she told the magazine. Kardashian and husband Kris Humphries are currently living in the Gansevoort Hotel in New York City with her sister Kourtney, Scott Disick, and their son Mason while filming Kourtney and Kim Take New York for E.

Authorities appealed to the public for information Tuesday after a nine-month investigation on the death of former Penthouse model, Anneka Vasta, who was found washed up on a Camp Pendleton, Calif. beach. Joggers found the model's naked body with a broken neck and back on the Marine training beach on Jan. 4, 2011. Police are still trying to establish whether Vasta's death was a suicide, accidental death or foul play. Her family vehemently denies that Vasta could have committed suic...

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Two Pablo Picasso paintings, worth millions of dollars when they were stolen from a Swiss gallery in 2008, have been found in Belgrade by Serbian police on Oct. 26, 2011. The paintings, worth an estimated $4.3 million combined, have never been sold, and authorities are still unclear on both who stole the paintings and what their plans were for them after the theft.

Fitness guru lost 70 lbs. with the help of her young son

Lionsgate released eight new posters on Thursday.

The Doha Tribeca Film Festival opened on Oct. 25 with a star-studded red carpet. The Doha Tribeca Film Festival is an annual celebration of film. Its goal is to promote a community-minded, audience-driven platform for the expression, exposure and celebration of both Arab and international films.

Diwali is celebrated across the globe from Trinidad and Tobago to Quebec, Canada. Here's a look at photos of the global celebration of the Festival of Lights.

Justin Timberlake may be riding a new wave of movie stardom as his new film, In Time, sees its release in theaters on Friday, but the singer-dancer-actor still thinks he's an ordinary man.

Bad news: Eddie Murphy says Beverly Hills Cop IV isn't happening. Good news: The actor and comedian is working on a TV series adaptation of the Cop movies.

Think the recession was bad? Just wait until Hollywood finishes going digital.

Aided by Modern Family and strong growth in Happy Endings and Revenge -- not to mention the rain postponement of Game 6 of the World Series on rival Fox -- ABC had an overall win in the ratings Wednesday night and enjoyed several series highs, according to preliminary numbers.

Chaz Bono may have been booted off Dancing With the Stars this week, but he will be back on television next month in a second documentary on the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) about his life as a transgender man.

The 2011 lineup also includes Mary J. Blige and Florence + The Machine.

Aerosmith lead singer Steven Tyler said on Thursday he was sober when he fell in the shower in his Paraguay hotel room earlier this week.