Cher may have her ideal burial place all mapped out, but the veteran pop star is far from having one foot in the grave with a new album and feisty views on feminism and the "genius" of Miley Cyrus.

At 67, Cher is one of a generation of 1960s performers holding out against retirement -- from the still-touring Rolling Stones to Paul McCartney who has also just finished another album at the age of 71.

Two wildly diverse takes on modern love and obsession have taken the top prize Asia's largest film festival, which draws to a close Saturday.

Jurors in the New Currents award at the 18th Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) lauded Korean director Ahn Song-Kyoung's "Pascha" for its "intimate, highly original expression of an unusual love story".

Lebanese-U.S. director Ziad Doueiri said Friday he was willing to face jail to film his award-winning movie "The Attack" in Israel, flouting Lebanon's laws against entering the neighboring Jewish state.

Describing the production there as a "crazy trip", he told an audience at the Frankfurt Book Fair that it still bothered him that the movie, released this year, had been banned in the Arab world.

Two-time Oscar winner Quentin Tarantino today revealed he was afraid to make any film about a serial killer, because such a production would "reveal my sickness far too much".

"The planet Earth couldn't handle my serial killer movie," claimed the American director, who has a long history of ultra-violence in his films, from breakthrough box office smash "Pulp Fiction" (1995) through to last year's "Django Unchained".

The lawyer for a photographer who is suing Kanye West for alleged assault hit out at the U.S. rapper in a TV interview Thursday for apparently threatening other cameramen.

Gloria Allred branded as "shameful" West's comments on the late-night Jimmy Kimmel show, in which the latter declared himself a genius and warned cameramen not to "antagonize" him.

India's biggest film star Shah Rukh Khan says the family spirit of Bollywood movies is what makes them so popular while revealing he struggled to combine dance with serious acting.

In a career spanning three decades, Khan has made himself one of the biggest box office draws in Bollywood as the hero of romantic dramas and high-octane action flicks, and he said he quickly learned there are certain ingredients that make a movie successful.

Organizers of Miss Universe extended their "deepest apologies" to India over a photo shoot at the Taj Mahal that triggered a police case and accusations that she disrespected the famed monument to love.

Reigning Miss Universe Olivia Culpo, a 21-year-old American from Rhode Island, visited the Islamic mausoleum on Sunday during a 10-day tour of India.

Comedian and condo board president Joan Rivers is being sued for $15 million in a dispute involving a former downstairs neighbor in her luxury New York City building.

The lawsuit was filed Wednesday in state Supreme Court in Manhattan.

Kanye West and Jimmy Kimmel quickly dispelled the idea their so-called rap feud was a publicity stunt during a sometimes uncomfortable appearance on the comedian's television show.

Speculation that the rapper's anger over a "Jimmy Kimmel Live" parody skit that mocked him was staged was immediate after West lashed out at Kimmel in late September. But both said that their beef was authentic during a 30-minute interview on Wednesday night's show in which West discussed a range of topics including his artistry, paparazzi, family, fashion and the idea of celebrity.

Crowds of movie lovers cheered as Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan's latest film "Chennai Express" screened in Cairo theatres, marking the return of Hindi cinema to Egypt after more than two decades.

Men, women and college students applauded Khan's comic timings and laughed when he punched the bad guys, clearly showing that the film's Hindi language soundtrack is no barrier to Egyptians.