
'Argo' wins Producers Guild Awards
"Argo" continues to shake up the Oscar race by taking the top honor at the Producers Guild Awards on Saturday. Ben Affleck, coming off winning Golden ...
Berlusconi sex-for-hire verdict after Italy vote
Judges hearing ex-Premier Silvio Berlusconi's sex-for-hire trial on Monday pushed back the verdict and the sentencing in the case until after Italy's ...

Court denies Berlusconi bid to halt sex trial
A Milan court on Monday rejected a bid by former Premier Silvio Berlusconi to halt his sex-for-hire trial for Italy's general election campaign, a ...

SHOW BITS: It's after-party time
Show Bits brings you the 70th annual Golden Globes awards through the eyes of Associated Press journalists. Follow them on Twitter where available ...

Bill Clinton gets a standing O at Golden Globes
Who can seize the rapt attention of a room full of A-list movie and TV stars? Try a former U.S. president. When the glitterati gathered at Sunday's ...

Expect 16 perspectives on stars at Golden Globes
It's a few days before the Golden Globes, and the Beverly Hilton International Ballroom is having a little work done. Crystal chandeliers are being ...

Oscar odds, ends, facts and figures
Fun stuff to know about Thursday's Oscar nominations: GOLDEN AGE: At 85 years old, Emmanuelle Riva of "Amour" is now the oldest best actress nominee, ...

Highlights of Hollywood's 2013 film lineup
Highlights of Hollywood's 2013 schedule (release dates are subject to change): JANUARY: "Broken City": Mark Wahlberg's an ex-cop out for revenge ...

Hollywood sticks to tried and true in 2013 lineup
It's not really news that Arnold Schwarzenegger is back this year. Everybody else in Hollywood is, too, so why not the former California governor? ...

On foreign policy, Kerry is Obama's good soldier
Democratic Sen. John Kerry stands tall as President Barack Obama's good soldier. The Massachusetts lawmaker has flown to Afghanistan and Pakistan ...

Column: Only 1 athlete of the year in 2012, Messi
'Tis the season for making merry and for choosing our top sports men and women of the year, two distinctly separate annual rituals that in fact ...

'Amour' takes top prize from LA film critics
The French-language drama "Amour" was chosen as the year's best film Sunday by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, whose prizes are among a ...

Clooney: Village burnings in Sudan a war crime
Actor George Clooney and a group of U.S. genocide scholars in the United States are warning that war crimes are taking place in an obscure conflict ...

5 films about the financial crisis you can bank on
"Killing Them Softly" is a stylish and violent dark comedy about low-level gangsters and thugs, set squarely within the U.S. economic collapse of ...

People magazine says Channing Tatum is sexiest man
Channing Tatum is People magazine's "sexiest man alive" for 2012. The 32-year-old actor says his first thought on hearing the news was: "'Y'all are ...

Most of Congress coming back despite low approval
Listen up, voters, you're the boss. Your employee has barely produced the past two years, has hardly showed up for work, hasn't cooperated with others ...

Satellite images suggest airstrike on Sudan site
Satellite images of the aftermath of an explosion at a Sudanese weapons factory this past week suggest the site was hit in an airstrike, a U.S.
'91 perfect storm skipper leery of Hurricane Sandy
Ray Leonard knows a thing or two about monster storms. In fact, he's the skipper of the Satori, the 32-foot sailboat that rode out THE perfect storm ...

Star-powered political rallies get party started
Baseball great Hank Aaron is a Barack Obama guy. Golf legend Jack Nicklaus is in Mitt Romney's camp. From athletes and astronauts to singers and ...

In court, Berlusconi denies sex with teen
Silvio Berlusconi made a rare court appearance Friday to deny some of the more salacious accusations at the center of a sex scandal in Italy that has ...

AP PHOTOS: The most charitable stars
Celebrity charity work has been around as long as celebrity itself. "Beethoven was doing charity concerts," says Myrlia Purcell, founder of ...

Benefits can flow both ways at celeb charity galas
The Beverly Hilton's International Ballroom will soon be filled with flowers, chiffon, fine china and crystal stemware for a starry black-tie ball ...
US group says Sudan forces raze remote border town
Sudanese security forces burned and looted a village in the remote Nuba Mountains in May before returning to shell the settlement two months later, ...

Presidential race rumbles into final 4 weeks
Rumbling into its final four weeks, the presidential campaign is playing out on both coasts and multiple fronts, with Republican Mitt Romney seeking ...

Obama ribs his own debating; Romney eyes speech
On a last dash for cash in the celebrity scene of California, President Barack Obama on Sunday took a good-natured shot as his own underwhelming ...