SAN ANTONIO, June 23 (UPI) -- Frequent visitors to a delicatessen in San Antonio, Texas, say a pair of dive-bombing grackles have been pecking customers' heads.

NEW YORK, June 17 (UPI) -- New York authorities said a man donned a dress, wig and makeup to impersonate his dead mother and collect Social Security and rent subsidies.

LOS ANGELES, April 22 (UPI) -- Turner Classic Movies will pay tribute to 52 of cinema's greatest directors with a month-long festival in June, the U.S. network said.

HOLLYWOOD, March 22 (UPI) -- A private funeral was held for longtime Hollywood illustrator and production designer Dorothea Holt Redmond, who died last month at age 98, her daughter said.

EL SEGUNDO, Calif., Dec. 17 (UPI) -- A new version of the Barbie doll aimed at Alfred Hitchcock fans is hitting U.S. stores in time for Christmas -- "Bird Barbie."

NEW YORK, Sept. 9 (UPI) -- The estate of a man who owned the rights to "Rear Window" is suing Hollywood filmmaker Steven Spielberg over the plot of his voyeur-themed film "Disturbia."

SOUTH SHIELDS, England, July 7 (UPI) -- Pedestrians on a South Shields, England, street say aggressive seagulls have been stealing food from shoppers.

NEW YORK, June 9 (UPI) -- Using advanced functional imaging, U.S. and German neuroscientists found some motion pictures can exert considerable control over brain activity.

LONDON, April 1 (UPI) -- U.S. film director Jules Dassin, who was blacklisted in Hollywood after World War II, has died in an Athens, Greece, hospital after a short illness.