CULTURE

Speakers for the gathering, which runs from October 9-11 in the capital of the United Arab Emirates, include producer Walter Parkes and CBS television executive Nancy Tellem.

If you think your life is tough, just be grateful Oscar-winning directors Joel and Ethan Coen aren't the masters of your personal universe.

British singer Elton John, visiting Ukraine with his AIDS charity foundation, said on Saturday he wanted to adopt a 14-month-old boy from an orphanage in the east of the country.

It is the action hero dream team. Sylvester Stallone will shoot a scene with Bruce Willis and Arnold Schwarzenegger soon for his upcoming adventure The Expendables, due to hit theatres in 2010.

It may be hard to imagine actor Woody Harrelson, known for his work to legalize marijuana among other causes, as Hollywood's next superhero, so don't.

Cynicism and sentiment have melded magically in movies by some of the best American directors, from Preston Sturges and Billy Wilder to Alexander Payne.

Hard-hitting Israeli war movie Lebanon won the Golden Lion for best picture at the Venice film festival on Saturday.

Supermodel Gisele Bündchen, 28 will give birth to her first child on December, her husband New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady told ESPN in an interview.

At the premiere of her latest film Jennifer's Body actress Megan Fox wowed fans with her own body - and says she's enjoying her sex symbol status.

Lauren Bacall, whose sultry roles in film noir movies To Have and Have Not, The Big Sleep and Dark Passage earned her Hollywood immortality, is to get an honorary Oscar.

There's just no slowing down Elvis Costello.

First-time feature film director Kevin Tancharoen grew up watching the movie Fame. Now, the 25-year-old dancer, choreographer and video director -- who has worked with Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera and who directed the MTV series Twentyfourseven and DanceLife -- presents his contemporary take on the classic tale of the pursuit of dreams.

Writer Larry Gelbart, who developed the hit television show M*A*S*H that uncovered a rich wellspring of comedy and pathos in war, died of cancer on Friday at age 81.

A collection of Andy Warhol paintings valued in the millions of dollars has been stolen from the home of a Los Angeles businessman, police said on Friday.

Michael Jackson was buried with one of his iconic white gloves, sunglasses and dressed with pearl beads and a large gold belt, his sister, La Toya, said in a television interview to air on Friday.

Celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz reached a deal on Friday with the art finance company behind her $24 million loan, allowing her to buy back control of her photographs, which had been put up as collateral.

German anatomists plan a new show dedicated solely to dead bodies having sex as part of the Body Worlds exhibitions.

If there is anything Oscar voters love, it is a good drama. But as a key festival stop on the road to Hollywood awards got down to business on Friday, dramas were less on movie screens and more behind the scenes where the film genre is troubled.

Disney has struck a deal with Viz Media to bring the anime series Naruto Shippuden to the Disney XD digital cable network beginning next month.

The upcoming Teutonic retelling of Moby-Dick has its Ahab: William Hurt has signed on to play the megamaniacal, peg-legged captain of the whaler Pequod, and Ethan Hawke has inked to play Starbuck, the first officer who is just about the only sailor who defies him.

Maura Tierney has pulled out of NBC's upcoming drama series Parenthood because of a scheduling conflict between the show's production and her breast cancer treatments.

A lawsuit that accused Jerry Seinfeld of defamation and his wife Jessica Seinfeld of plagiarism in her top-selling cookbook was tossed out by a federal judge on Thursday.

Singing songs on subjects ranging from death to drink, British baritone Marcus Farnsworth has won the top prize in the sixth biennial Wigmore Hall/Kohn Foundation International Song Competition.

An international lineup of Latin acts will join Colombian rocker Juanes at his controversial Paz Sin Fronteras (Peace Without Borders) concert, scheduled for Havana, Cuba, on September 20.

The Black Eyed Peas logged an 11th week at No. 1 on Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart Thursday with I Gotta Feeling, extending the hip-hop group's unbroken reign to 23 weeks when its previous hit Boom Boom Pow is factored in.

On a hazy mid-August morning at the swanky Viceroy hotel in Santa Monica, California, indie rock royalty Conor Oberst, Jim James, M. Ward and Mike Mogis -- who have gathered to promote their new band, Monsters of Folk -- are nestled on a mustard-colored couch in a quiet room with all-yellow vintage decor that resembles a set from a Stanley Kubrick film. At the moment, however, their concerns are b...

As it expands its circle of producers, Sony Pictures Animation has struck a multiyear, first-look deal with Fred Seibert and his Frederator Studios to develop animated features.

Timothy Dalton, a former James Bond and a Shakespearean actor to boot, will voice a worthy thespian hedgehog named Mr Pricklepants in Disney/Pixar's Toy Story 3.

he protest and counterprotest over a Tel Aviv sidebar escalated Thursday as the Toronto International Film Festival got under way.