George Clinton and the Black Eyed Peas have settled a lawsuit in which the funk pioneer accused the pop group of using his music without proper permission.

Right now, Sammy Hagar is awfully glad he's not in Van Halen anymore.

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, the renowned German baritone who performed for more than five decades on stages in Berlin, Vienna, London and New York, died Friday. He was 86.

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.

Dina Eastwood has heard the question repeatedly: Why put her family and superstar husband Clint Eastwood on display for a reality TV show, generally the province of D-list or wannabe celebrities?

French opera seems to be hitting just the right note in the United States.

The breakout performance at the Cannes Film Festival this year is Aniello Arena's turn as a Naples fishmonger who becomes obsessed with appearing on a "Big Brother"-style TV show in "Reality."

Twenty paintings from 1952 that capture Dallas as more skyscrapers went up and the city began to sprawl away from downtown, are going on exhibit together for the first time in more than a half-century.

The youngest director in the Cannes selection, 23-year-old Canadian Xavier Dolan wades into brave territory with "Laurence Anyways," about a man going through a sex change with his girlfriend's help.

Sean Penn tried to turn the conversation at the Cannes Film Festival to Haiti, hosting a fundraiser for the earthquake-ravaged and poverty-stricken country.

Britain has come under criticism for inviting the king of Bahrain, whose Gulf state has engaged in a brutal crackdown on political dissent, to a lunch Friday celebrating Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee.

When Snoop Dogg passed through Willie Nelson's neck of the woods during South By Southwest in March, he took some time to pay tribute to his unlikely friend.

The Barnes Foundation is no longer the greatest art collection you'll never see.

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.

"Battleship" has heavy-duty weaponry and an unflagging spirit of patriotism on its side, but that doesn't mean it's winning the war with critics.

Grammy award-winning singer Chaka Khan will perform a tribute to the late Whitney Houston at the Apollo Theater's gala and awards ceremony.

A visibly moved Robert De Niro and his co-stars from "Once Upon a Time in America" Friday hosted a screening of the restored 1984 classic by Sergio Leone before a Cannes red-carpet crowd.

Jackie Chan is landing his last punch as an action star, but says he is stepping into retirement having made one of the most important films of his career.

It's taken an animated trilogy about a gang of zoo animals to bring Ben Stiller and Chris Rock together.

Actor and activist Sean Penn urged US President Barack Obama to step up his support for Haiti as he hosted a Cannes fundraiser to help the country recover from the devastating 2010 quake.

There's an easy trick to writing a good Jewish joke — just make the idiot at the center of it sound Jewish.

Oscar-winning "The Artist" star Jean Dujardin will play alongside British actor Tim Roth in a French-directed spy thriller set in the world of high finance, the production firm said Friday.

An Italian tragicomedy starring a prison inmate as a father of three who loses himself in a quest to become a reality television star premiered Friday at the Cannes Film Festival.

Donna Summer's funeral will be a private one for family and close friends.

It may only be as a talking lion, but Ben Stiller joked on Thursday that coming to Cannes with the cartoon romp "Madagascar" could be a stepping stone to arthouse glory.

The rise and fall of Rebekah Brooks is to get the film treatment, reports said from Cannes Friday, just days after the former Rupert Murdoch aide was charged in Britain's phone-hacking scandal.

An Iranian-born singer who went into hiding after receiving death threats for allegedly insulting a Shiite Muslim saint said Friday he didn't intend to provoke the wrath of religious extremists.

Jurors in John Edwards trial want to look several exhibits and they need office supplies.

Tim Roth was back in Cannes Friday to judge his contemporaries' films, talk about his role as Mr Nice in a new British film, and give a ringing endorsement to France's new socialist leader.

Horror is coming to the Cannes Film Festival this week, courtesy of Italian cult director Dario Argento who told AFP in an interview that his 3D Dracula is "a man for our times".

The Barnes Foundation is opening in its new home in Philadelphia but the controversy surrounding its move hasn't gone away.

There's sun, sand and sex in Cannes Film Festival entry "Paradise: Love" — and they add up to a grim and unsettling holiday movie.

A graphic, unflinching look at the interplay of desire, money and power among European women sex tourists and African gigolos hit the screen Friday in the Cannes contender "Paradise: Love".

Palme d'Or winner Cristian Mungiu is back in Cannes this week with a film based on a deadly exorcism in Romania that runs far deeper than the shock case, says the author who inspired him.

Walking briskly across the Brooklyn Bridge, smiling under a splendid morning sky, David McCullough is in the mood for telling stories, like the time he had a chat with James Cagney.

In Wes Anderson's "Moonrise Kingdom," the famously meticulous director takes his fastidiously fashioned world and flings it into the woods.

"American Idol" finalist Joshua Ledet won't be belting it out on this season's final showdown.

Larry King said Thursday that his talk show will resume this summer on the new digital network Ora.TV, earlier than he or the network had anticipated.

The young CW network is hoping to turn around a year of disappointing ratings by making changes this fall on each of the five nights it broadcasts.

Scores of Christian youths in the Philippines chanted "Stop the Lady Gaga concerts" at a rally Friday calling for the pop diva's shows here to be canceled despite assurances from authorities that they won't allow nudity and lewd acts.

Cannes is not featuring any female directors this year but it does love women in film.

The man sits at a table with his head in his hands. He has not moved for several minutes. Opposite is an empty chair. Watching him through a glass panel are hundreds of people scrutinising his every gesture.

the Queen of Disco.

the Queen of Disco.

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.

Plans to turn Wayne Newton's sprawling Las Vegas estate into a celebrity museum have shifted into an ugly legal battle citing mismanagement, animal abuse and sexual harassment.

Van Halen is postponing some dates on its summer concert tour.

Highlights in the career of singer Donna Summer, the Queen of Disco, who died Thursday at age 63:

The Algerian singer Warda, whose sultry voice and range helped make her one of the giants of Arab song, has died. She was 72.

A cockfight is a contest between two gamecocks, often conducted in a circular arena called a cockpit. That partially explains the wry title and unusual staging of Mike Bartlett's edgy play, "Cock," but of course, there's more to it.

Everyone in Hollywood wants to be a multi-hyphenate, right? Everyone wants to show they can do it all. A key figure in that tradition is the model-turned-actor. Maybe they wanted to act but had to take modeling gigs first; maybe they modeled first but wanted to prove they were more than just a pretty face.

Prosecutors have charged a man with stalking Mila Kunis and violating a restraining order that was issued after he broke into a vacant condo owned by the actress.

Egyptian director Yousry Nasrallah, in Cannes with an Arab Spring drama, defiantly vowed Thursday that the Islamists jockeying for power back home would never succeed in stifling art.

Reaction to the death Thursday of singer Donna Summer, who was 63:

Jacques Audiard's "Rust and Bone" packed the first heavyweight punch of the Cannes race Thursday, starring Marion Cotillard as a killer-whale trainer who loses both legs in a tragic accident.

Disney/Marvel's "The Avengers" should top the domestic box office for a third straight weekend, fending off wide-release newcomers with another $50 million in receipts.

May, it turns out, is a manly month, and a funny one at that.

Jane Fonda gave the 65th Annual Cannes Film Festival one of its best looks on Thursday in a stretch, form-fitting, two-tone gown by Stella McCartney.

BET's hit series "The Game" has lost another star: Pooch Hall isn't returning for the show's sixth season.

Now that she's stopped modeling, former Sports Illustrated Swimsuit star Brooklyn Decker is posing for the cameras more than ever: There she is with the paparazzi in Australia, on the red carpet in London and on the cover of this month's Women's Health and the June issue of Redbook.

Joey Lawrence is shedding his clothes: The actor has joined the male erotic dancing troupe Chippendales.

There's vintage fashion and there's ancient fashion — and Chinese actress Fan Bingbing tapped into the latter for the opening of the Cannes Film Festival.

Patrons at Paris's "Crazy Horse" breathed a sigh of relief on Thursday as topless dancers got back on stage following the first-ever strike over pay at the famed cabaret.

Grammy-winning disco legend Donna Summer, who steamed up the charts in the 1970s and 80s with raunchy hits like "Love to Love You Baby" and "Hot Stuff," died Thursday aged 63, her family said.

If there were a prize for most topical movie at the Cannes Film Festival, it would go to Egyptian entry "After the Battle," whose completion, its director says, is a political act in itself.

Producers of Broadway's "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" were ordered Thursday to turn over any relevant information to a stuntman who claims he suffered a concussion, whiplash and two holes in his knees while performing as the comic book hero.

Disco queen Donna Summer, whose pulsing anthems such as "Last Dance," ''Love to Love You Baby" and "Bad Girls" became the soundtrack for a glittery age of sex, drugs, dance and flashy clothes, has died. She was 63.

Twirling her leopard-print dress on stage in the '70s, proudly holding many of her music awards and performing in recent years on "American Idol", Donna Summer was the ultimate disco queen

Oscar-winning Frenchman Michel Gondry on Thursday premiered his latest work -- which follows a bunch of schoolkids on a bus through the Bronx -- at the Cannes film festival.

Cheerleaders are coming back to Broadway.

Max Payne hasn't graced video gamers' screens for nearly nine years, and when we reacquaint ourselves with the former New York City detective, we find a man drowning his troubled past in bottles of scotch and prescription pills.

Clad in a plaid jacket that could have come out of Rodney Dangerfield's wardrobe in "Caddyshack," Bill Murray clashed with traditional Cannes fashion but made the most of the film festival in every other way.

Hollywood is known for snatching up best-selling books and turning them into big-screen blockbusters: "Twilight," ''Harry Potter," ''The Hunger Games," ''The Help" and countless others.

North Korea's most famous accordion quintet has added a new 80s-era pop song to their repertoire: A-ha's "Hunting High and Low."

It will be painful saying goodbye to "House."

Los Angeles police say "Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines" actor Nick Stahl has been reported missing by his wife.

You can thank Clint Eastwood for setting the stage for Glenn Frey's latest solo record, "After Hours."

Taylor Swift has taught a generation of kids to appreciate country music over the last five years. Now, she's donating $4 million to the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum to make sure that education continues.

Jacques Audiard's new movie features poverty, bare-knuckle fighting and a killer whale attack. The French director says it's a sunny romance.

Actor Hal Holbrook has been performing as Mark Twain for six decades. Now, he's getting an award named after the author and humorist.

Three members of the children's music quartet The Wiggles will be hanging up their colorful outfits and leaving the Australian band this year, with the Blue Wiggle the lone original member left dancing.

The three "American Idol" finalists earned nearly uniform votes of confidence Wednesday from the Fox show's judges. Now it's the audience tally that will determine which two compete for glory in next week's finale.

Authorities in Louisiana say a man who starred in the reality television show "Swamp People" died from natural causes.

The Rodin Museum in Philadelphia is getting ready to reopen after three years of renovations.

Diane Kruger must have arrived in France with a lot of luggage. On Wednesday, Day 1 of the 12-day Cannes Film Festival, Kruger, a member of the prestigious jury, turned up in two different outfits.

Popular Detroit pastor and gospel singer Marvin Winans was assaulted and carjacked Wednesday afternoon at a gas station on the city's west side.

After years of bitter court fights, The Barnes Foundation opened its doors Wednesday for a sneak peek at its new location on the museum-studded Benjamin Franklin Parkway.

Global children's phenomenon The Wiggles announced the end of an era on Thursday, with three of the quartet to retire from performing and a woman to don the turtleneck for the first time.

The Grammy Award-winning country music trio Lady Antebellum performed a "mini-prom" for students of a southern Indiana town that was devastated by a tornado in early March.

At this year's Cannes Film Festival, there are directors in their 30s and their 80s, directors from Europe and North America, directors from Asia and the Middle East — but no women.

Wes Anderson opened the 65th Cannes Film Festival with his meticulously composed ode to young love, "Moonrise Kingdom," while less mannered theatrics surrounded the annual French Riviera extravaganza.

Chuck Brown, who styled a unique mix of funk, soul and Latin party sounds to create go-go music in the nation's capital, has died after suffering from pneumonia. He was 75.

The legal battle between gaming giants Activision Blizzard Inc. and Electronic Arts Inc. is over, with the companies announcing they have settled a case that accused EA of improperly recruiting two executives who oversaw the creation of the smash videogame "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2."

Tornadoes battered their school and homes, and spring break was spent cleaning up. Henryville has only begun to rebuild, but for one night, its high school students will get to put aside their worries for a private show by one of country music's biggest acts.

The drummer for OneRepublic has pleaded not guilty to charges filed in Denver after his girlfriend said he grabbed her head and threw her down during a fight.

The game is over for Tia Mowry: The star of the hit BET series "The Game" won't appear in the show's sixth season.

Putting on the Bamboozle Festival, the largest beach concert in the United States, is a feat of detail management: coordinating more than 100 performers, determining where to fit 30,000 fans (and their cars) each night, reinforcing a historic boardwalk so it won't sag under the weight of the crowd.

The revival of "Death of a Salesman" might be terribly sad, but producers are very happy.

The wild — and exuberant — ride of "Priscilla Queen of the Desert" is coming to an end on Broadway.

Seventeen young dancers stop horsing around on the Nederlander Theatre stage as Christopher Gattelli approaches.

Francisco Costa has waited — patiently — to make his big splash.

No longer a major institution and now a shrunken, vagabond company, New York City Opera is ending its first season since departing Lincoln Center with a handsome staging of Georg Philipp Telemann's "Orpheus," a work premiered in 1726 that was long lost before it was rediscovered in 1978.

Go ahead. Poke your head in the clouds.

Michael Wigge left Berlin without a penny and traveled 25,000 miles to Antarctica, hitchhiking, bartering and working his way by ship, plane, car and foot, from Europe to Canada and the U.S. and then through Latin America.

The Cannes Film Festival opened on Wednesday with a sweet-natured family romp by Wes Anderson, as women jurors spoke up to quash a row over the all-male line-up for the competition.

Sony Pictures Entertainment on Wednesday said that the Academy Award winning screenwriter behind "The Social Network" will write the script for a film about Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.

Hollywood star Will Smith took time out of his promotional schedule for "Men in Black III" to try his hand at Olympic sports in London.

"The Taste of Tomorrow: Dispatches From the Future of Food" (Harper), by Josh Schonwald: What will we be eating in 2035? That's the question reporter Josh Schonwald sets out to answer in "The Taste of Tomorrow."

New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art is big on bubbles.

If Nanni Moretti had his way, what happened in Cannes would stay in Cannes.

The sunbaked Cannes Film Festival got under way with Wes Anderson's "Moonrise Kingdom," whose carefully composed whimsy stood in stark contrast to the zoo-like atmosphere at the annual French Riviera extravaganza.

Kim Junsu, a member of popular South Korean boyband JYJ, on Wednesday announced plans for his first solo tour, a day after releasing his first solo album.

How can "Saturday Night Live" possibly replace (fill in the blank)?

The red carpet glamour, the frenzied fans, the media: Cannes is Woody Allen's worst nightmare, the US filmmaker confides in an up-close documentary screened at the film festival Wednesday.

"I Suck at Girls" (It Books), by Justin Halpern: With a title like "I Suck at Girls," from the best-selling author of "S--- My Dad Says," in a thin volume that would be much thinner if all the profanity were expunged, I'm not sure exactly what I was expecting. From the cover art of boxers strewn on a headboard to the endorsement quote from Maxim, Justin Halpern's second book makes no effort to deceive. This is light reading, easily absorbed in a couple of hours, distracted or not, no thinking required.

Actress Betty White is headed to Washington and her agenda includes donkeys and elephants — but not the kind roaming on Capitol Hill.

British comic Sacha Baron Cohen sparked minor chaos on Cannes' fabled Croisette beachfront Wednesday as his zany alter ego Admiral General Aladeen took a morning stroll on his camel Osama.

"Moonrise Kingdom", a bittersweet American family romp with an all-star cast about the thrill and sting of first love, delighted audiences as it opened the 65th Cannes Film Festival Wednesday.

Whatever they may have thought of his politics, anyone lucky enough to have conversed with author Carlos Fuentes couldn't help but be taken by his patrician good looks and his love affair with language.

Marie de Medici wore it at her coronation as Queen Consort of Henry IV in France in 1610, and now the Beau Sancy diamond is a lavish accessory owned by an anonymous bidder who paid $9.7 million for it at Sotheby's auction.

"American Idol" viewers could be in for a serious case of deja vu if Phillip Phillips wins on the Fox talent contest's 11th season finale next week.

Where has Neil Sedaka been all these years? Wiggling his way into the hearts of a new generation, for one, through picture books accompanied by mini-albums offering playful takes on some of his hits.

The extravaganza named Cannes got under way Wednesday with Wes Anderson's carefully composed whimsy and Sacha Baron Cohen's theatrics.

"The Dictator" knows how to make a scene.

John Lennon's killer has been transferred to another maximum-security state prison in western New York after spending more than 30 years in Attica Correctional Facility.

Carlos Fuentes, who died Tuesday aged 83, was one of the Spanish-speaking world's best known writers, famous for his prolific output and his use of experimental language.

Brazilian cinema, a special guest at this year's prestigious Cannes festival, is experiencing an impressive boom with around 100 films produced every year and a higher international profile.

First came complaints that the winner of the Miss World Fiji pageant looked too Western to represent her country. Then her age came under scrutiny. And now, with the 16-year-old's crown lost, one of the judges says the contest was rigged from the start.

Lady Gaga's Indonesian promoters have vowed to fight to save her show, despite police denying it a permit and Islamic hardliners threatening "chaos" if she comes to the mostly Muslim nation.

The 65th annual Cannes Film Festival was to get under way Wednesday with Wes Anderson's carefully composed whimsy and Sacha Baron Cohen's less confined theatrics.

Philippine President Benigno Aquino III has picked his "American Idol."

Maria Menounos earned a perfect score on Monday's episode of "Dancing With the Stars," but on Tuesday, she was ousted from the show.