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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Alice remains the queen of the box office....

HONG KONG (AP) -- Philippine director Brillante Mendoza says he hopes his new movie about two grandmothers will resonate with a broader audience than his dark Cannes-winning crime thriller "Kinatay."...

HONG KONG (AP) -- Chinese actress Tang Wei returned to the red carpet on Sunday, promoting her first movie since the 2007 Ang Lee spy thriller "Lust, Caution," a politically sensitive production that reportedly prompted officials to ban her in her home country....

LONDON (AP) -- Stars including Jude Law, Keira Knightley and Rachel Weisz are competing for London's Laurence Olivier theater awards....

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- The elderly Texas billionaire who married Anna Nicole Smith in the last year of his life never intended to leave the former stripper any portion of his vast fortune, a federal appeals court ruled Friday....

LOWELL, Mass. (AP) -- During Buddhist monk Ly Van Aggadipo's final days, he wrote often in a notebook. Temple followers knew the nonagenarian spiritual mentor to many local Cambodian refugees was recording some sort of personal history, but they weren't sure what....

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The children's animated TV series "Handy Manny Big Race" is going prime time Saturday night with Dale Earnhardt Jr....

PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Oprah Winfrey and several schoolgirls allegedly abused at her academy in South Africa are expected to testify in a trial over a defamation lawsuit brought by the school's former headmistress, whose performance Winfrey criticized....

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -- A lesbian high school student embroiled in a legal flap over her school's prom policy has received a $30,000 scholarship on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show."...

NEW YORK (AP) -- Lady Gaga is firing back at a music producer who claims he launched her career and is suing her for $30.5 million....

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Alice remains the queen of the box office....

HONG KONG (AP) -- Philippine director Brillante Mendoza says he hopes his new movie about two grandmothers will resonate with a broader audience than his dark Cannes-winning crime thriller "Kinatay."...

HONG KONG (AP) -- Chinese actress Tang Wei returned to the red carpet on Sunday, promoting her first movie since the 2007 Ang Lee spy thriller "Lust, Caution," a politically sensitive production that reportedly prompted officials to ban her in her home country....

NEW YORK (AP) -- Activist shareholder Carl Icahn raised the stakes in his yearlong dispute with Lions Gate Entertainment Corp. on Friday, launching an all-out bid to take over the movie studio following disagreements over its spending....

CASSELBERRY, Fla. (AP) -- Actresses Demi Moore and Nia Vardalos were linked to an online chain of Twitter posts that ultimately led to Florida authorities intervening Friday when an 18-year-old man threatened to commit suicide....

VIENNA (AP) -- The Vienna Philharmonic has permanently appointed its first woman concertmaster....

NEW YORK (AP) -- Having disappeared from Lincoln Center for a season, New York City Opera is taking tiny steps toward recovery....

NEW YORK (AP) -- Lady Gaga is firing back at a music producer who claims he launched her career and is suing her for $30.5 million....

LONDON (AP) -- It was a book, then an award-winning film. Now Ian McEwan's "Atonement" is to become an opera....

GENEVA (AP) -- Geneva's new "Parsifal" production escaped the boos heard after several recent Richard Wagner opera premieres at the Grand Theatre, with a richly colored staging accompanying music that was at times so sensuous the allegory of Christian salvation seemed destined to end in embrace....