CULTURE

George Clooney explores the dirty side of politics in The Ides of March, the opening movie at the Venice film festival in which an aide to a Democratic presidential candidate learns how dispensable ideals can be.

Husband and wife songwriting team Marilyn and Alan Bergman have won three Academy Awards and two Grammys, but their biggest reward in a long career just may be writing for Barbra Streisand.

Former WWE star Matt Hardy started his own suicide hoax after posting a bogus Goodbye video on YouTube Tuesday, which led police to his brother's North Carolina home.

Daryl Hannah has spent a considerable amount of time in handcuffs

Dry, hot weather a concern for spreading wildfires.

Joe Jonas has been experiencing a busy year. The middle Jonas brother has gone solo in a side project. With an album and tour coming up within a few weeks, it seems crazy to think that the 22 year-old also has a new film in the works. The star has two roles in the project--actor and producer. Joe Jonas is truly living the fast life.

With the buyer being completely unnamed by his/her lawyer, rumors are making rounds that it could be Kim herself who wants to buy the rights to the video as she is the one to be benefited most from the deal.

Most bizarre celebrity fashion at MTV VMA's and other events.

After Akon’s composition its Lady Gaga turn to sing a song for Bollywood.

Beyonce grabbed much of the limelight at the MTV Video Music Awards with her pregnany announcement and broke a Twitter record of 8,868 tweets per second when she showed her baby bump after her performance.

Lady Gaga's role-play as her own boyfriend, Joe Calderone, a chain-smoking, curse-spewing greaser, at the weekend's 2011 MTV Video Music Awards, has become a hit among the LGBT community.

Despite her pregnancy pop star Beyonce will still perform at the Michael Jackson tribute concert via satellite.

George Clooney will kick off the 2011 Venice film festival on Wednesday with the world premiere of his political drama The Ides of March. The Lido waterfront will witness star-studded 11 days.

The shipwreck discovered in 1996 by a private contractor working for the state of North Carolina has been confirmed to be the Queen Anne's Revenge, the flagship of the notorious 18th-century English pirate Blackbeard, state officials said.

Teen pop star Justin Beiber was uninjured in a car accident in the San Fernando Valley Tuesday afternoon, the Los Angeles Police Department said.

India's full service airlines, buffeted by high fuel costs and intense competition, face new headwinds on their lucrative international routes as budget carriers launch services with rock-bottom fares.

Lady Gaga, or rather, Jo Calderone, wore a wig and merkins as well as prosthetic cheekbones and shoulder at the MuchMusic awards function earlier this year, but she wore a prosthetic penis to complete her transformed look of Jo Calderone at the 2011 MTV VMAs.

For the 2011 Miss Universe pageant, contestants from 89 countries and regions across the world are participating at the Credicard Hall in São Paulo on Sept.12.

George Clooney kicks off the 2011 Venice film festival on Wednesday with the world premiere of his political drama The Ides of March, setting the tone for a star-studded 11 days on the Lido waterfront.

Actress and environmental activist Daryl Hannah was briefly arrested outside the White House on Tuesday during a protest against a proposed $7 billion oil pipeline, police said.

Lucas Brody was just 10 years-old when he watched the Twin Towers fall to the ground one block from his New York home on September 11, 2001; Caitlin Langone was 12 when her police officer dad died that day trying to rescue people from the scene.

Angelina Jolie has dismissed ongoing speculation about marriage and more kids with her partner Brad Pitt, telling Vanity Fair in an interview published on Tuesday that there are no secret wedding plans.

A mystery buyer has put in a bid to take a sex tape featuring Kim Kardashian offline from Websites where viewers now have to pay to watch it.

An adult actor who contracted HIV through unprotected sex shut down Los Angeles' adult film industry Monday night. An involuntary sexual health database was established less than a month ago in order to curtail the spread of sexually transmitted disease within the notoriously promiscuous community.

Seiji Ozawa, Japan's most famous conductor, will not take part in a music festival in China later this week, organizers said, with media reporting that he was in hospital in Tokyo for tests.

Warrior may have a hot young rising star in Tom Hardy, but Lionsgate knows that for the UFC drama to be a hit it will need strong word of mouth support.

Some think Nancy Grace will be the first to be eliminated -- will she surprise us?

Jolie dishes about her directorial debut, quells rumors.

Concourse F at Miami International Airport was evacuated after screeners spotted a suspicious package.