Today's Entertainment Headlines
NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Audrey Hepburn once declared her look was "attainable" and an upcoming auction of some of the fashionable film star's wardrobe will make that possible.
Some 35 dresses, gowns, separates and other items will be sold at a London auction on December 8 at the ...
Painted in strong and fresh colors, the poster for the 44th Montreux Jazz Festival represents a boy playing guitar and his dog sat on a drum. It follows last year's offering by French illustrator Tomi Ungerer, featuring a dark-suited pianist with a keyboard face.
It is the second time Britto, ...
Polanski, 76, is being held in a Swiss prison pending a decision on a U.S. extradition request. He fled the United States in 1978 while awaiting sentencing for having unlawful sex with a 13-year-old girl.
His lawyer, Herve Temime, told Le Figaro that Polanski had already been punished for the ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Irina Shabayeva won the sixth season of the fashion reality show "Project Runway" on Thursday in the conclusion of the hit cable series which was delayed for months by legal wrangling.
Shabayeva, 27, the daughter of immigrants from the Republic of Georgia who moved ...
Police were investigating the cause of the 20-year-old's death and said it was most likely that she committed suicide, the prosecutor's spokeswoman told Reuters Friday.
Kim's body was found Thursday morning in her apartment in Paris by a male friend, who alerted the police.
LONDON (Reuters) - Scottish singer Susan Boyle, one of the biggest stars of the Internet age, seeks to turn global celebrity into record sales next week with the release of her debut album "I Dreamed a Dream."
Named after the song from the musical "Les Miserables" that made her ...
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - The moon may be new, and the director may be different (Chris Weitz takes over the reins from Catherine Hardwicke), but otherwise, the second installment of the "Twilight" saga remains, for better or worse, exceptionally faithful to its 2008 ...
The 36-year-old aspiring filmmaker was stopped by police, jailed briefly on a misdemeanor charge of driving under the influence and released on $5,000 bail, Los Angeles police said.
A statement issued on behalf of the Massachusetts senator and 2004 Democratic presidential nominee, said Kerry's ...
The 36-year-old aspiring filmmaker was stopped by police, jailed briefly on a misdemeanor charge of driving under the influence and released on $5,000 bail, Los Angeles police said.
A statement issued on behalf of the Massachusetts senator and 2004 Democratic presidential nominee, said Kerry's ...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - "American Idol" champion Kris Allen has often lost the spotlight to runner-up Adam Lambert since winning the televised singing competition in May, but Allen says he is just fine with that.
Allen's self-titled album hit stores Tuesday, six days before Lambert's ...
Boyle's album "I Dreamed a Dream" will be released on November 24 by Sony Music Entertainment. It is the first album since the dowdy 48 year-old church volunteer from Scotland took the Internet by storm with her unlikely star turn on the TV show "Britain's Got Talent" in ...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Adam Lambert may have lost the battle to be crowned "American Idol" but the glam rocker with soaring vocals says he got what he wanted from the TV singing contest -- an album deal, exposure and a chance to make and present music his way.
Lambert's debut album ...
LONDON (Reuters) - Eating disorder campaigners criticized British model Kate Moss on Thursday for saying she backed the motto "Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels," a slogan popular with pro-anorexia websites.
Health experts said 35-year-old Moss, renowned for her waif-like ...
The 67-year-old is considered one of the leaders of the New German Cinema movement of the 1960s and 1970s, and has made more than 50 films in a career spanning five decades.
"Werner Herzog's films convey the artistic strength of cinema," said festival director Dieter Kosslick. "We ...
LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. actor Zac Efron takes another step away from the world of high school musicals that made him famous with a part in "Me and Orson Welles," which also features British newcomer Christian McKay in the title role.
In the movie, which hits British theatres on December ...
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Fans have been mooning over all things "Twilight" since the vampire-romance film bowed so bloody well exactly a year ago. So it's no surprise that the sequel, "The Twilight Saga: New Moon," is projected to sink its teeth into more than $85 ...
British-born Hamilton, 43, is a first-time Oscar director, but he is a veteran of numerous live-event programs including this year's MTV Video Music Awards, and the MTV Europe Music Awards and Victoria's Secret Fashion Show in 2008.
"His approach definitely won't feel like 'business as ...
LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - Bon Jovi claimed its fourth No. 1 album on the U.S. pop chart Wednesday, despite a sharp drop in sales.
"The Circle" sold 163,000 copies during the week ended November 16, according to Nielsen SoundScan. It marks the veteran band's second chart-topper in a row ...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Steven, we love you. But you need to get sober, and we need to find a new singer.
That appears to be the consensus among Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler's bandmates, who are dropping loud hints that he is back on drugs.
Billy Bob Thornton, Tom Cruise and Jim Carrey also made the top 10 tally of actors who cost more to hire than they appear to be worth at box offices.
Ferrell took first place largely due to the flop of his summer 2009 movie "Land of the Lost", which Forbes said cost an estimated $100 ...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Penelope Cruz feels uncomfortable talking about nude scenes and says she has "an allergy to labels," but she becomes effusive when discussing her "dream year" with two special films about to hit theaters.
The first is Spanish director Pedro Almodovar's ...
The co-founders of the band are Cyrus' half-brother Trace Cyrus, 20, and Mason Musso, 20, the brother of Mitchel Musso, who stars with the 16-year-old pop idol in the hit Disney TV series "Hannah Montana" about a secret schoolgirl rock star.
The heavily-tattooed Trace Cyrus and Mason ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The "Holy Grail" of Michael Jackson memorabilia will go on the block on Saturday in an auction of one of the King of Pop's famous white gloves and hundreds of rock-and-roll relics.
The sale at the Hard Rock Cafe in New York includes a car driven by Jackson, David ...
MALVERN, England (Reuters) - Ken Allcock, 66, had never seen an opera and his wife Eileen hadn't been in about 50 years, but both were enchanted by Handel's "Tolomeo," brought to their hometown of Malvern by English Touring Opera.
"It's very easy to listen to," Eileen Allcock, ...
A statement on his website said that despite the complication, which needed immediate treatment, the 61-year-old's cancer operation was "entirely successful."
"He still hopes to back at work in the New Year," it added.
The 82-year-old star joined the campaign three years ago when he narrated a PETA documentary depicting the treatment of birds used in the production of foie gras, which PETA said was banned in the United Kingdom although selling it was not.
PETA said the video had been viewed more than 300,000 ...
Depp, whom People described as "the king of cool with the killer cheekbones," succeeded 2008 winner Hugh Jackman. Other stars who have received the honor twice include George Clooney and Brad Pitt.
"Whether it's onscreen in roles like Captain Jack Sparrow in the Pirates of the ...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - In "The Twilight Saga: New Moon," lovelorn character Bella Swan gets dumped by her vampire man, sinks into depression and later flies to Italy to pursue him. While that may sound too extreme, actress Kristen Stewart thinks Bella is setting a good example to ...
The "Protector" collection, designed for luxury British jeweler Asprey, is a range of gold jewelry and silver accessories that features snakes, considered a symbol of protection and admired by Jolie.
Jolie, listed as Hollywood's top-earning actress by Forbes earlier this year, was first ...
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Celebrities beware: YouTube is making it even easier for anyone with a camera phone to turn your behavior -- be it mundane or sensational -- into news.
The world's top purveyor of Internet video has launched YouTube Direct, whereby TV and online news editors can ...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Sarah Palin said a run for the White House in 2012 is "not on my radar screen right now" as the Republican carefully did not close the door to a possible candidacy in an interview that launched her big book tour.
Palin spoke to TV talk show hostess Oprah Winfrey as ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - It could be a scene from a film noir: Michel Legrand is sitting in the suffused elegance of the St Regis hotel sipping tea, while a downpour lashes the streets.
"It's pouring rain in Manhattan...," the 77-year-old French jazz and film-music legend sings playfully, ...
Sony said the movie that uses the Mayan calendar and other end-of-days prophecies to depict the world's demise came in above its initial box office estimate on Sunday of $225 million globally. Moviegoers in North America chipped in $65.2 million, while international audiences contributed $165.2 ...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Since winning "American Idol" in 2005, country singer Carrie Underwood has become one of the show's highest selling graduates, but she warned the latest crop of "Idol" finalists to "stay true" to their fans if they want to find similar ...
"He was the one that was administering," Janet Jackson said about Houston-based physician Dr. Conrad Murray. "I think he is responsible."
Murray, who was hired to treat Michael Jackson in the months before Jackson died on June 25 of a drug overdose, is currently a target in the ...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Filmmakers trying to satisfy a U.S. movie rating aimed at mostly teenagers often complain that they're forced to cut violent scenes, and those edits compromise the director's vision.
But Oscar-winning director Peter Jackson found he had the exact opposite problem with his ...
LONDON (Reuters) - British actor Edward Woodward, best known for roles in 1973 cult classic "The Wicker Man" and U.S. television series "The Equalizer," died Monday aged 79.
His agent Janet Glass said the veteran of stage and screen had been ill for several months and passed ...
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - FX has snapped up TV rights to "2012," the disaster movie that just enjoyed a blockbuster $225 million opening weekend worldwide.
Appropriately, the Roland Emmerich-directed Sony movie will premiere on the basic cable network in the beginning of 2012.
Magnanti told British newspaper The Sunday Times that she wrote under the pen name Belle de Jour to describe the encounters she had as a high-class call girl while she was earning money as she wrote her PhD.
She detailed her secret life in a blog from 2003 which then led to a best-selling book, ...
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - At 10 o'clock one night, Mo'Nique got a call at home from director Lee Daniels.
"I have something for you that might f--- up your career," the filmmaker told her. "I said, 'Sign me up, sugar!'" the actress recalls, hooting with laughter. ...
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - "The better the dog, the busier you have to keep him."
That was the advice a dog trainer, of all people, gave Christoph Waltz, the Vienna-born actor who won the top acting prize at Cannes for his role as the eerily deliberate Col. Hans Landa in ...
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - It takes a lot to frighten Carey Mulligan, the British actress who delivered a fearless performance as a 1960s schoolgirl seduced by an older man in "An Education."
Not even a recent screening of "Paranormal Activity," the low-budget horror of ...
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Knowing a golden character opportunity when she sees one, Sandra Bullock takes the proverbial ball and runs with Leigh Anne Tuohy, the honey blond spitfire of a well-to-do Southern wife and mother who takes in a homeless black teenager in "The Blind ...
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Sony's entry in the crowded animation field this holiday season is "Planet 51," a perky though not terribly imaginative feature aimed primarily at youngsters.
Created by a Spanish company, Ilion Animation Studios, this digital cartoon is a jokey ...
NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - Kara DioGuardi wants to hang out with Ellen DeGeneres before the new season of "American Idol" to get the judges working together comfortably.
The second-year judge said she plans on spending down time in December with the newest addition to ...
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Alyssa Milano, star of ABC's midseason comedy "Romantically Challenged," is doing double duty for the network.
The "Charmed" veteran has signed on for a guest stint on ABC's quirky detective drama "Castle."
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - ABC is close to a ordering a pilot for "Charlie's Angels," planning a contemporary take on the 1970s crime series.
The project is being executive produced by the three producers of the two "Charlie's Angels" movies, Drew Barrymore, Nancy ...
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Former "Seinfeld" writer-producer Larry Charles, who went on to direct the "Borat" and "Bruno" movies, is returning to NBC with a semi-scripted project.
Set in a small town, the untitled ensemble comedy revolves around a disparate ...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Hollywood veterans turned out in force to see Lauren Bacall, grand dame of film noir, receive an honorary Oscar at the motion picture academy's Governors Awards on Saturday night, away from TV cameras.
Bacall, 85, starred in more than 30 films but never won an Oscar from ...
