Snoop Dogg remembered watching all of the Cheech and Chong movies growing up, idolizing their ability to always escape from danger in their comedy films.

Wiz Khalifa revered Snoop Dogg for his marijuana-smoking, ultra-smooth West Coast swagger shown extensively throughout his rap career.

Fifth-grader Jolie Leach says she "was gonna explode" with excitement when Justin Bieber performed a concert at her Las Vegas school, and vowed she'd never wash her hand after he gave her a high-five.

Leach was one of hundreds who showed clear symptoms of Bieber fever after the 17-year-old teen pop sensation staged a private show Friday at low-income Whitney Elementary School. The concert was filmed for an episode of "The Ellen Degeneres Show" and came two months after Bieber promised the school's 650 students a $100,000 donation.

Oscar-winner Natalie Portman was in France this week with her baby boy and star choreographer fiancé Benjamin Millepied, who has a double-bill showing in the eastern city Lyon from Saturday.

The US actress and French dancer met on the set of the ballet-themed 2010 thriller "Black Swan," which earned the 30-year-old Portman a best actress Oscar for her role as a ballerina driven close to madness by her quest for perfection.

Grammy-winning blues and soul singer Etta James, most famous for her signature song "At Last," is terminally ill, her doctor and manager said in comments published Friday.

Experts declared two weeks ago that the leukemia from which the 73-year-old was suffering was inoperable, Dr Elaine James told The Press-Enterprise newspaper, which covers where the singer lives in Riverside, California.

"Oops, I Did it Again" star Britney Spears is ready to marry for a third time, after accepting boyfriend and former agent Jason Trawick's proposal, the couple announced Friday.

Trawick, who Spears has been dating since 2009, announced the news on entertainment TV show "Access Hollywood," saying: "Yes, we are engaged," adding that he was "over the moon, as (is) she."

“Maharat” and the “Cencorship Observatory” held a press conference Thursday to launch a draft law on “Freedom of Film Making” and to legally study the Censorship law.

The conference, which was held at at Metropolis hall in Achrafieh, was aimed at presenting the public with the content of the draft law and launching a general discussion on censorship in Lebanon.

Dressed in white tutus, seven pensioners from a village in southern Poland love to get on their tiptoes to dance ballet classics like Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake".

All these new-found ballerinas are grandmothers -- one is even a great-grandmother -- and the oldest member of the troupe is 73.

After Europe, the Middle East and Asia, Tintin -- or rather his new on-screen version -- is coming to the United States, and the boyish-looking reporter could have more of a challenge in his latest adventure.

Steve Spielberg's 3D film "Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn" has already been released in the traditional heartlands of the comic books by Belgium's Herge.

U.S. lingerie maker Victoria's Secret on Thursday vowed to investigate claims that some of its fair-trade underwear is produced using child labor.

In a statement Victoria's Secret's parent company said it was "very concerned" that fair-trade-certified cotton used in its panties could have been farmed using under-aged labor in Burkina Faso.

An unpublished manuscript by a 14-year-old Charlotte Bronte, who went on to write "Jane Eyre", sold at auction in London on Thursday for a record £690,850 ($1,069,000, 822,900 euros).

Sotheby's auction house said the sale, at more than double the guide price, was the highest ever price at auction for any literary work by Charlotte Bronte or her two famous sisters, Emily and Anne.