LOS ANGELES, Rob Woollard - Science-fiction blockbuster "Avatar" will be aiming to convert box office riches into movie industry accolades Sunday as Hollywood's awards season gets underway in earnest...
PARIS - French police believe a theatre actress who was doused with petrol in an attack in Paris this week was targeted for starring in a feminist play she wrote on Algerian women, a judicial...
LONDON - British comedian Ricky Gervais has blasted Twitter as fun for teenagers but "undignified" for grown-ups -- and questioned the motives of celebrities who use the micro-blogging platform....
LOS ANGELES - Velvet-voiced soul legend Teddy Pendergrass, whose romantic ballads lit up the 1970s and 1980s, has died after a long battle with cancer, reports said Thursday. He was 59.
The singer...
PARIS, Claire Rosemberg - A giant claw of death is at work and shades of the Holocaust on view at Paris' Grand Palais hall this week in the city's first big art show of the year, a "hand of God"...
NEW DELHI- Bollywood star Preity Zinta said Wednesday that misinterpretations of Hinduism -- often fuelled by greed -- were partly responsible for the dire plight of India's oppressed and neglected...
BELGRADE- US actor Johnny Depp arrived Tuesday in Serbia where he will be the star turn at a film festival launched by Serbian director Emir Kusturica to stem Hollywood's effect on film students....
BORDEAUX - French rocker and convicted killer Bertrand Cantat was quizzed by police after his ex-wife committed suicide by hanging herself, officials said Monday.
An autopsy confirmed that...
AMMAN, Ahmad Khatib - Jordan has complained to the United Nations in a bid to acquire the Dead Sea Scrolls from Israel, saying the Jewish state seized the ancient texts during the 1967 Six-Day war,...
CARACAS - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Sunday he has asked film producers to make "socialist soap operas," with government help if needed, because there's too much capitalism on television....
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