From her ultra-blond hair to her super-high heels, Donatella Versace uses every inch of her being to embrace glamour, and she wasn't going to put the Versace name on anything — and certainly not a collection for global fast-fashion retailer H&M — that didn't do the same.

The clothes that debuted Tuesday night on the catwalk lived up to the hype surrounding the limited-edition collection as well as Versace's own glitzy standards: There was a metallic disco dress, a studded leather bomber jacket and an animal-print-meets-tropical-sunset tank dress for women; and a hot-pink suit, studded tuxedo-style shorts and a palm-tree, second-skirt T-shirt for men.

His wife couldn't be there herself to accept her honor. So Mark Kelly, husband of recovering congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, spoke on her behalf. But, he made clear, his wife was still running the show.

"We went over my remarks very carefully," Kelly said at Glamour's Women of the Year awards on Monday. "She's still in charge."

The second Iraq Short Film Festival, which will feature movies from 28 countries, is to be held this month in Baghdad, after a six-year hiatus due to violence, its organizer Nazar al-Rawi said.

"The festival is a message to the world that cinema and culture are still alive in Iraq," Rawi told Agence France Presse.

After Michael Jackson's death on June 25, 2009, the gated mansion at 100 North Carolwood Drive where the pop star lived with his three children while preparing for his comeback concerts became part media camp, part Jackson tribute ground.

Hundreds of tearful fans left cards, flowers, balloons and handwritten notes in front of the three-story home resembling a French chateau, while dozens of reporters jumped at any development in the death investigation. Anyone coming in or out of the property was bombarded with questions.

The son of pioneering undersea explorer Jacques Cousteau is planning a new documentary series about oceanic life aimed at promoting conservation.

The series, to be entitled "Ocean Alive", will consist of 12 documentary films and a feature. Cousteau hopes to film all of them in 3D.

Hollywood legend Robert De Niro is lined up to play shamed Wall Street financier Bernard Madoff in a planned U.S. television film about his massive fraud scandal, a spokeswoman said Tuesday.

The two-time Oscar winner is penciled in to play the Ponzi scheme mastermind in the made-for-TV movie in development for HBO, the HBO spokeswoman said, confirming details in the New York Times.

The dress worn by late British soul singer Amy Winehouse on the cover of her Grammy-award winning album "Back to Black" is being put up for sale for charity, a London auctioneer said Tuesday.

The printed chiffon dress, designed by young Thailand-based designer Disaya, is expected to raise between £10,000 and £20,000 (11,650 and 23,300 Euros, $16,000 and $32,000) at the sale at Kerry Taylor Auctions on November 29.

It has masterpieces, media frenzy, a contested gem — everything but the "Mona Lisa." London's latest blockbuster art show confirms Leonardo da Vinci as a Renaissance rock star.

A new exhibition of the artist's paintings at London's National Gallery is opening amid A-list levels of hype and anticipation.

Reality TV star Brody Jenner says he was hit with a bottle outside the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, and girlfriend singer Avril Lavigne tweeted that she was also attacked.

Los Angeles police Sgt. Keith Green said Monday that Jenner filed a police report of assault with a deadly weapon after being hit early Sunday outside the popular nightspot.

The single word, "Guilty," brought a muffled shriek in the gallery of the packed courtroom and tears from Michael Jackson's family, but no reaction from the doctor convicted of supplying the King of Pop with the drug he craved for sleep.

With the snap of handcuffs, another chapter in the bizarre saga surrounding Jackson's life came to a close, and the man who once envisioned a glamorous career as the music icon's personal physician was led from the courtroom. Dr. Conrad Murray was going to jail for involuntary manslaughter.