ENTERTAINMENT

British composer Andrew Lloyd Webber Thursday unveiled his latest musical Love Never Dies, a sequel to hit show The Phantom of the Opera which has played to more than 100 million people around the world.

Barry Manilow is in a festive mood. With Manilow set to end a five-year run at the Las Vegas Hilton on December 30, Sony Music said the 66-year-old singer has re-signed his recording deal with its Arista Records label and will be releasing two new albums in the coming months.

Comedian Lewis Black has been making people laugh with his take-no-prisoners approach to whatever pops up in his cross-hairs -- government, milk, official tips on how to survive a nuclear blast.

Don't Panic. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is back with a sixth installment of the absurd, intergalactic and increasingly inaccurately named trilogy.

David Otunga Jr., Jennifer Hudson's baby, was officially introduced to the public on Thursday after his first photos were published on People Magazine.

German Herta Mueller, a Romanian-born writer who produced tales of the disenfranchised and fought for free speech, won the 2009 Nobel prize for literature Thursday.

American actor Harry Connick Jr got extremely angry when a group of contestants in the popular show Hey Hey It's Saturday! were imitating the Jackson Five- showed up with their faces painted in black.

Adam Yauch is feeling healthy, strong and hopeful that he has beaten cancer, the Beastie Boys member shared in a message to fans this week.

Film star Ellen Page is adding a TV writer-producer credit to her resume.

Barbra Streisand scored her ninth No. 1 album on the U.S. pop chart on Wednesday with a jazz release that overshadowed high-profile releases by some much-younger artists.

An Australian talent show skit based around late pop star Michael Jackson and the Jackson 5 has backfired after U.S. guest star Harry Connick Jr called for an apology and viewers accused the program of racism.

Call it delayed reaction.

Actor Leonard Nimoy returns to U.S. television this week in his new guise as a mysterious mastermind on the show Fringe, but doubts that his Mr. Spock will head back to space, the final frontier.

British actress Carey Mulligan plays a teen who gets seduced in An Education.

Radiohead's lead singer Thom York put a band together for fun - as he said - and performed on October 4 and 5 at the Los Angeles Orpheum Theatre.

New details for Kevin Jonas' bachelor party are being disclosed by his two brothers Joe and Nick who are planning it.

After David Letterman confessed of having sexual relationships with women from the Late Show staff and mixed jokes with apologies to his wife on air, the problems seem just not to be over.

Aerosmith has survived drugs, departures, divorces and discord since the rock 'n' roll bad boys formed 40 years ago.

Forty years ago, Tim Hauser put together a sophisticated little singing group he hoped would make a few hits.

Celebrity and fashion photographer Irving Penn died Wednesday at 92 in his Manhattan home.

Australian actress Naomi Watts, who starred in The Ring, King Kong, and Eastern Promises, is the actress who provides the best return for a film studio, according to a list by Forbes.com.

Singer Beyonce Knowles finally spoke out on Kanye West's actions at the Video Music Awards last month.

Madonna's ex husband Guy Ritchie spoke about the pop diva in an interview with Esquire Magazine published Wednesday.

The bar codes of Madonna, Britney Spears, Michael Jackson and any celebrity can be created with online bar code generators with the input of a name.

Two very different movies are showing an ugly, violent side of Brazil that many would rather forget as the country prepares to host both the World Cup and the Olympics within the next seven years.

Ashley A.J. Jewell, the former fiancé of Real Housewives of Atlanta star Kandi Burruss did not die immediately after the fight outside a strip club in Atlanta. He was walking and talking after the fight and took a ride with a friend to the hospital; according to celebrities' blogging site TMZ.com.

Ustad Abdul Fattah once made jewelry in Afghanistan's royal studio, developing a lifetime of skills that went to waste in a country plunged into war after the king was toppled in 1973.

Canada's prestigious Scotiabank Giller Prize announced its short list of finalists on Tuesday, after reviewing 96 books submitted from across the country.

The skeleton of a sperm whale is competing with the brain of a cow for this year's Turner Prize, Britain 's annual competition of contemporary art that regularly triggers debate about what is art and what is not.