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.

Amy Winehouse. There is no mistaking the look of the first model at Jean Paul Gaultier's couture show Wednesday, the beehive hair and thick eyeliner, black skirt and brassiere visible under a white top.

"Amy Winehouse was a true style icon," Gaultier told reporters backstage after a show conceived as a tribute to the soul singer, six months after her untimely death.

Elie Saab stole into the tower and gave Rapunzel a gift to dazzle any passing prince — a new gown that shimmers royally.

Models with long rope-like ponytails in luminous shantung silk gowns blossomed at Wednesday's showing of the Lebanese designer's spring-summer haute couture collection.

One of the youngest dancers ever to be a principal of the Royal Ballet, Ukrainian Sergei Polunin, has quit just days before a new production opens and only two years after he was promoted.

"This has obviously come as a huge shock," said Monica Mason, the director of the Royal Ballet, in a statement issued late Tuesday.

Los Angeles mayor Antonio Villaraigosa signed into law Tuesday an ordinance requiring porn actors to use condoms, a measure welcomed by AIDS campaigners.

City lawmakers voted in favor of the law earlier this month, in the latest move in a battle between AIDS activists and the California-based US adult film industry.

On day two of Paris's frantic three days of haute couture collections, Chanel took the fashion crowd to the skies and highlights included super-sexy, celebrity-filled Armani Prive.

Tuesday's haute couture shows felt more flashy than in previous seasons — perhaps owing to confidence after some fashion houses revealed rising sales figures during last year.

Actress Demi Moore is being treated for "exhaustion," her publicist said Tuesday, after a media report said she had been rushed to hospital due to substance abuse.

Moore, who split from her younger husband Ashton Kutcher in November after reports he had been unfaithful, had been placed in a facility to receive treatment, the TMZ celebrity news website said.

Bruce Springsteen will launch a major tour of the United States and Europe in Atlanta, Georgia on March 18, 12 days after his latest album comes out, his official website said Tuesday.

It will be the 62-year-old rock legend's first big outing with the E Street Band since 2009, and the first without beloved saxophonist Clarence Clemons, a big part of The Boss's sound, who died in June last year at the age of 69.

Martin Scorsese's Paris adventure "Hugo" leads the Academy Awards with 11 nominations, among them best picture and the latest director slot for the Oscar-winning filmmaker.

Also nominated for best picture Tuesday: the silent film "The Artist"; the family drama "The Descendants"; the Sept. 11 tale "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close"; the Deep South drama "The Help"; the romantic fantasy "Midnight in Paris"; the sports tale "Moneyball"; the family chronicle "The Tree of Life"; and the World War I epic "War Horse."