
Russell Brand announces 'Messiah Complex' tour
Russell Brand has a "Messiah Complex," and he's taking it on the road. The British comedian announced Thursday that he's launching a world comedy tour ...

Broadway, get ready for a double dose of Rylance
Broadway will get a double dose of Mark Rylance this winter — the two-time Tony Award-winning English actor will alternate between starring in ...

'Lean In' back at No. 1 on NYT best-seller list
Caps and gowns are in fashion right now, and so, apparently, are copies of "Lean In" as a graduation gift. Sheryl Sandberg's manifesto for women in ...

Indonesia axes bikinis for 2013 Miss World pageant
Miss World has axed the famed bikinis from this year's pageant in Indonesia, replacing the skimpy swimsuits with conservative beach sarongs amid ...

'Coronation Street' actor faces new charges
A longtime star of British soap opera "Coronation Street" already facing trial for rape was charged Thursday with five counts of indecent assault on ...

Lofty art: Painting visible only from Eiffel Tower
Art is often seen as lofty — but perhaps none more than a new roof installation in Paris that's only visible from the top of the Eiffel Tower.

Les Paul exhibit to open in Wisconsin hometown
The music icon whose solid-body electric guitar paved the way for rock 'n' roll is now getting a permanent exhibit in his Wisconsin hometown, after ...

Films of Esther Williams, who died in Calif. at 91
Films of Esther Williams: "Andy Hardy's Double Life," 1942 "A Guy Named Joe," 1943 "Bathing Beauty," 1944 "Thrill of a Romance," 1945 "Ziegfeld ...
Jefferson Airplane drummer Joey Covington dies
Former Jefferson Airplane drummer Joey Covington has died in a Palm Springs car crash. A Riverside County coroner's report says the 67-year-old Palm ...
Media General, Young to combine TV operations
Broadcast companies Media General Inc. and New Young Broadcasting Holding Co. said Thursday that they are combining to create a company that will ...

Comic novelist Tom Sharpe dies at 85
Tom Sharpe was aptly named, a writer who turned a razor-edged eye for absurdity on everything from the racism of apartheid to the squabbles of ...

Krasinski says life is weird after 'The Office'
There is life after the hit NBC series "The Office," but actor John Krasinski says it's been "really weird" and he misses his friends and the routine ...

Fill-in host Oliver to keep the news fake, funny
Since 2006, John Oliver has proved his mettle as a phony journalist on "The Daily Show." Serving in numerous "reporting" roles on the spoof newscast, ...

Indian star Amitabh Bachchan to act in TV series
Bollywood star Amitabh Bachchan says he'll make his television acting debut in a new series this year. Bachchan announced the new and not-yet titled ...

Paris Jackson now in all-too-familiar spotlight
Michael Jackson's family is saying little about the hospitalization of his 15-year-old daughter while pleading for privacy and saying nothing about ...

Venezuela frees US filmmaker jailed as alleged spy
A U.S. filmmaker jailed for alleged espionage in Venezuela was expelled from the country and returned to the United States in a gesture that could ...
Berry Gordy memoir reissued as e-book
The Berry Gordy memoir which inspired the Broadway hit "Motown: The Musical" is being reissued as an e-book. Gordy's "To Be Loved," first published ...

Carrie Underwood takes video of year at CMT Awards
Carrie Underwood's awesome week got off to a roaring start at the CMT Music Awards. Underwood won top honor video of the year Wednesday night for ...

AP Photos: As case wears on, Manning less visible
In November 2012, after nearly a dozen times photographing the routine arrival and departure of Army Pfc. Bradley Manning for his pretrial hearings ...

Defense report: Post-bin Laden raid security lapse
Several weeks after overseeing the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, then-CIA Director Leon Panetta revealed the name of the raid commander in a ...

U. of Iowa to study options for new art museum
The University of Iowa received permission Wednesday to develop plans for a new museum to store its premier collection of fine art, which has largely ...
Blakey, Hampton, Terry enter NYC Jazz Hall of Fame
Drummer Art Blakey, vibraphonist Lionel Hampton and trumpeter Clark Terry are the newest inductees into Jazz at Lincoln Center's Ertegun Jazz Hall of ...

'Hot in Cleveland' going live with William Shatner
The TV Land channel says William Shatner will guest star on this month's live premiere of "Hot in Cleveland." Brian Baumgartner of "The Office" also ...
NY man who played Elmo charged in Girl Scouts scam
A homeless man with a history of playing an evil version of the "Sesame Street" character Elmo from coast to coast was charged Wednesday with trying ...

Wayne Newton moving out of Las Vegas estate
With a bitter legal fight nearly over, "Mr. Las Vegas" Wayne Newton is moving from his estate of 45 years, "Casa de Shenandoah," to another mansion ...