"Made in India" clothing is often seen as the product of sweatshop labor, but fashion designer Saloni Lodha, whose fans include film stars Naomi Watts and Emma Watson, wants to give it a luxury tag.

"I have great faith in the made-in-India idea, and wanted to see an Indian, made-in-India brand in the world's best stores," she told Agence France Presse while on a visit to Mumbai to source fabrics.

Actress Demi Moore was convulsing and "burning up" after taking an unidentified drug when emergency services were called earlier this week, according to the 911 call released Friday.

During the 10-minute call friends tell the 911 operator that the 49-year-old, who split from her younger husband Ashton Kutcher in November after his alleged infidelity, has "been having some issues lately."

French luxury brand Louis Vuitton will open a boutique and jewelry studio on Paris' Place Vendome this spring and is preparing its first perfume, the label's head Yves Carcelle told Agencde France Presse Friday.

"In April we will have our own jewelry workshop and in May will open our boutique in the same building," Carcelle said during the inauguration of the "Maison Rome Etoile," Louis Vuitton's new shop in the eternal city.

For four decades Leonard Cohen's brooding lyrics won him fans and accolades the world over, but the folk-rock poet never felt legitimate singing the blues -- until now.

Elegantly clad in a suit and black trilby, the 77-year-old Canadian was in Paris this month to promote his new album "Old Ideas", the first in eight years -- 10 pared-down songs with a strong blues flavor.

Knocked sideways a decade ago by online piracy, the record industry had a spring in its step in the run-up to the MIDEM trade fair this weekend, buoyed by figures suggesting legal downloading has taken off for good.

"As we enter 2012, there are good reasons for optimism in the world of digital music," Frances Moore, head of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), told reporters ahead of the annual Riviera event, which runs from January 28-31.

Some family secrets are too big to bury.

Playwright Daniel Talbott has written a searing drama of a family trapped in a downward spiral, both emotionally and financially, in his dark new play "Yosemite," which opened Thursday night off-Broadway in a compelling production at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater.

Hollywood's Snow White rivalry is heating up.

Movie studio Relativity Media on Thursday pushed back the release of its lighthearted fairy tale starring Julia Roberts, "Mirror Mirror," by two weeks to March 30. That cuts the time between it and Universal Picture's pulsating action movie, "Snow White and the Huntsman," to nine weeks instead of 11.

Stars including Justin Bieber and Smokey Robinson paid tribute to Michael Jackson on Thursday, as the late star's three children immortalized his shoe- and glove-prints at a Hollywood landmark.

Paris, Prince and Blanket made a rare appearance at a ceremony outside the Grauman's Chinese Theatre, where the hand and footprints of generations of stars are recorded in cement, attracting millions of tourists every year.

Film director Alfred Hitchcock, author Roald Dahl and artist Lucian Freud are among the people who have snubbed honors from the British monarch, government records revealed for the first time Thursday.

Painters Francis Bacon and L. S. Lowry, the sculptor Henry Mooreand "Brave New World" novelist Aldous Huxley are also on the list published by the Cabinet Office ministry.

Former Beatle Paul McCartney is composing music for a video game which he hopes will introduce his work to a whole new generation, he has told a German newspaper published Thursday.

The 69-year-old musician told Die Zeit weekly newspaper that he had found the prospect exciting and that a new video game was currently a better seller than a new CD.