May 18, 2012, 2:19 pm
LOS ANGELES - George Clinton and the Black Eyed Peas have settled a lawsuit in which the funk pioneer accused the pop group of improperly using his music.
May 18, 2012, 1:51 pm

LOS ANGELES - A man charged with stalking Mila Kunis pleaded not guilty Friday to two felony charges and was denied a request to leave jail without having to post bail.
May 18, 2012, 12:16 pm

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Country music legend Loretta Lynn is three years older than she has led people to believe, an age change that undermines the story she told of being married at 13 in "Coal Miner's Daughter," documents obtained by The Associated Press show.
May 18, 2012, 11:45 am

NEW YORK - Donna Summer's funeral will be a private one for family and close friends.
Publicist Brian Edwards said in a statement Friday that Summer's family is overwhelmed and appreciates the outreach from fans and friends, but that her funeral services will remain private.
May 18, 2012, 10:47 am

PHILADELPHIA - The Barnes Foundation is no longer the greatest art collection you'll never see.
Art aficionados and academics might never stop debating whether Dr.
May 18, 2012, 8:52 am
CANNES, France - There's sun, sand and sex in Cannes Film Festival entry "Paradise: Love" - and they add up to a grim and unsettling holiday movie.
Austrian director Ulrich Seidl's film depicts middle-aged European women at a Kenyan holiday resort seeking romance with young local men.
May 18, 2012, 5:19 am
CANNES, France - The breakout performance of the Cannes Film Festival so far is Aniello Arena's turn as a Naples fishmonger who becomes obsessed with appearing on a "Big Brother"-style TV show in "Reality.
May 18, 2012, 4:34 am

Like the King of Pop or the Queen of Soul, Donna Summer was bestowed a title fitting of musical royalty - the Queen of Disco.
Yet unlike Michael Jackson or Aretha Franklin, it was a designation she wasn't comfortable embracing.
May 18, 2012, 4:04 am

CANNES, France - In Wes Anderson's "Moonrise Kingdom," the famously meticulous director takes his fastidiously fashioned world and flings it into the woods.
May 18, 2012, 3:43 am
CANNES, France - Kanye West will debut a short film titled "Cruel Summer" at the Cannes Film Festival.
The rapper announced Friday that he'll present the film on Wednesday at the French festival.
May 18, 2012, 12:49 am

The head of the Miss World beauty queen franchise says she plans to travel to Fiji "as soon as possible" to address the problems that turned last month's pageant in the island nation into a fiasco.
May 17, 2012, 10:27 pm
NEW YORK - Herbert Breslin, the hard-driving manager who helped propel Luciano Pavarotti to international fame during the 36 years they worked together, has died, his wife said Thursday.
May 17, 2012, 9:44 pm
MANILA, Philippines - About 70 Christian youths in the Philippines have chanted "Stop the Lady Gaga concerts" at a rally calling for the singer's shows in Manila next week to be canceled.
May 17, 2012, 7:40 pm

LOS ANGELES - "American Idol" finalist Joshua Ledet won't be belting it out on this season's final showdown.
The booming 20-year-old vocal powerhouse from Westlake, La.
May 17, 2012, 6:46 pm
LOS ANGELES - Van Halen is postponing some dates on its summer concert tour.
A source familiar with the tour who was not authorized to speak publicly confirmed that some of the band's long-scheduled performances this summer will be postponed.