Alfred Hitchcock's "Vertigo" has climbed to the top of the British Film Institute's poll of the greatest films ever made, dislodging "Citizen Kane" for the first time in 50 years, it was announced on Wednesday.

Some 846 experts were polled for the BFI Sight and Sound magazine's decadal list, and selected the 1958 suspense thriller about a retired police officer with a fear of heights, starring James Stewart and Kim Novak, by 34 votes.

YouTube's inaugural film festival has selected 10 short films, including a Lebanese picture ‘Super Full’, that it will send to the Venice Film Festival.

The Google video site announced Wednesday the finalists of its Your Film Festival. The contest was overseen by director Ridley Scott, whose production company helped winnow the 15,000 submissions down to 10.

Rapper Snoop Dogg is moving up in the world. He's now Snoop Lion.

The U.S. hiphop star said he decided to change his wacky stage name during a visit to a Rastafarian temple in Jamaica, where he'd gone to record reggae tracks.

Diana Ross says the recent turmoil involving Michael Jackson's children and the appointment of a temporary guardian is a private matter and shouldn't be playing out publicly.

The singer writes in a statement to The Associated Press that "all interests are best served if it remains private."

British royalty has made its mark atop Vanity Fair's International Best Dressed List, with Kate Middleton and her brother-in-law, Prince Harry, both making this year's stylish slate.

The Duchess of Cambridge's decision to decline the services of a dresser and mix high-end couturiers like Alexander McQueen with her own browsing the racks of Topshop, earned her a spot on the 73-year-old list.

U.S. novelist Gore Vidal, the iconoclastic commentator on American life and history in works like "Lincoln" and "Myra Breckenridge," died Tuesday at age 86, the Los Angeles Times reported.

The writer's nephew Burr Steers said Vidal died at his home in the Hollywood Hills of complications from pneumonia, the Times said.

Jonah Lehrer, author of a best-selling book about the mind and creativity, resigned from The New Yorker magazine on Monday for being too creative with his non-fiction writing.

In a statement that startled New York's publishing industry, Lehrer confessed to fabricating quotes he attributed to legendary singer-songwriter Bob Dylan in "Imagine: How Creativity Works."

The film version of J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit" will be split into three movies, rather than two as originally planned, New Zealand director Peter Jackson said Tuesday.

Jackson, who was responsible for the Oscar-winning adaption of Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy, said be began considering the possibility of three films after watching an early cut of the first Hobbit movie.

The first thing you notice when you see Marilyn Monroe's full-length gloves in the storeroom of the Smithsonian National Museum of American History is how small her hands were.

"They're one of a number of pairs she had," says curator Dwight Bowers, gently lifting them out of the beige steel cabinet they share with Christopher Reeves' Superman costume and the 10-gallon hat that J.R. wore in "Dallas."

Multi-million selling Irish author Maeve Binchy, best known for writing "Circle of Friends", has died aged 72 following a short illness, Irish broadcaster RTE announced on Monday.

The former journalist sold over 40 million copies of her novels and short stories, which were known for their portrayals of Irish life and surprise endings.