LONDON, May 29 (UPI) -- Actor and artistic director of London's Old Vic Theater, Kevin Spacey says he doesn't mind the British press hostility he gets, as that's what sells papers.
CANNES, France, May 29 (UPI) -- "The Wind That Shakes the Barley" -- one of several war films at the 59th Cannes Film Festival -- took the festival's top prize Sunday.
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NEW YORK, May 28 (UPI) -- Comic book superheroes have always been a diverse lot, at least in costume and special abilities -- but, now some are going to be different in other ways.
LOS ANGELES, May 28 (UPI) -- Taylor Hicks, the new "American Idol," has busy days ahead with tons of interviews and talk show appearances and his first single, due June 13.
NANJING, China, May 28 (UPI) -- Predictably, the "Experimental Space" art exhibit in Nanjing, China, raised a fuss with its photographic depictions of human genitals and sex.
BURNING SHORES RESORT, Namibia, May 27 (UPI) -- Actress Angelina Jolie gave birth Saturday to a daughter named Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt in the country of Namibia, In Touch Weekly reports.
HOLLYWOOD, May 27 (UPI) -- "X Men: The Last Stand" is off to a strong start, with $44.1 million in box-office receipts in its first day in U.S. theaters, Box Office Mojo estimated.
Michael Jackson gets warm welcome in Japan ... Cannes' real business is film distribution ... Berry: Few good film roles for black women ... Lance Armstrong drives Indy pace car ... News from United Press International.
NEW YORK, May 27 (UPI) -- U.S. director Brett Ratner says he thought he'd never get the chance to helm a super-hero movie after he walked away from a new production of
NEW YORK, May 27 (UPI) -- Denis Leary says he is thrilled that Oscar-winning actresses Susan Sarandon and Marisa Tomei have multiple-episode arcs on his show, "Rescue Me," this season.
CANNES, France, May 27 (UPI) -- The Market at the Cannes Film Festival is a crowded place this year with 1,600 buyers from around the world looking over 4,471 movies. The U.S. film industry is the major producer in this global market place, the Washington Post reports. And the foreign b
TOKYO, May 27 (UPI) -- Michael Jackson was awarded MTV's "Legend Award" Saturday night by MTV's Japan Music Video Awards at Yoyugi Olympic Stadium in Tokyo. Despite rain, several hundred fans waited outside the venue, holding up signs that said: "We love you, Michael" and "Welc
NEW YORK, May 27 (UPI) -- Halle Berry says there is still a shortage of good film roles for women, especially black women, even for an Oscar-winning actress like herself. "There are so many great actresses and there should be a lot of great parts," the "X-Men: The Last Stand" star
NEW YORK, May 26 (UPI) -- The former editor of The Source was sentenced to six months in jail for hitting two people on the head with a gravel-filled satchel in New York.
PROVIDENCE, R.I., May 26 (UPI) -- Former Rhode Island Attorney General Jeffery B. Pine Friday withdrew from defending the owner of a nightclub where a fire killed 100 people.
LOS ANGELES, May 26 (UPI) -- Former MTV star Kristin Cavallari was linked with singer/actress Jessica Simpson's ex-husband, and now she may be taking over Simpson's film role too.
MILAN, Italy, May 26 (UPI) -- The Viola del Crocifisso was recovered by police in a barn outside Milan, Italy -- 26 years after it was stolen from outside the La Scala opera house.
NEW YORK, May 26 (UPI) -- The fledgling Fox-owned My Network TV has snared the rights to reruns of ABC's hit "Desperate Housewives" on weekends starting in 2008.
NEW YORK, May 26 (UPI) -- Fox TV's new "American Idol" Taylor Hicks probably beat runner-up Katharine McPhee by a significant margin, said inveterate "Idol" voter Jim Hellriegel.
SKANE, Sweden, May 26 (UPI) -- A painting by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch was stolen from a Swedish estate owned by a close friend of Norway's King Harald, it was reported Friday.
LONDON, May 26 (UPI) -- U.S. immigration officials have refused to let British rapper MIA enter the United States because of her lyrics supporting Sri Lanka's rebel Tamil Tigers.
DETROIT, May 26 (UPI) -- Veteran U.S. industrial rockers Ministry are gearing up to record what leader Al Jourgensen says will be the group's final album.
LOS ANGELES, May 26 (UPI) -- Music's golden couple, Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale, welcomed their son into the world Friday at Los Angeles' Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, May 26 (UPI) -- U.S. funk/rappers Black Eyed Peas said in Johannesburg, South Africa, Friday their Peapod Foundation would work to help impoverished South Africans.
