The dress worn by the former Kate Middleton when she married Prince William fueled a surge in regal tourism with 600,000 flocking to see the gown on display at Buckingham Palace, it emerged Tuesday.

Hordes of enthusiasts queued for hours to see the Alexander McQueen ivory and white satin-gazar dress, designed by Sarah Burton, swelling palace visitor numbers by 50 percent.

Sumptuous and feminine with intricate lace and pleat work, Alexander McQueen's new look unveiled on Tuesday was also edgy and unsettling, as models stepped out with hoods or masked faces.

Sarah Burton, chosen to design Kate Middleton's wedding dress, was showcasing her third collection since the death of the label's founder.

Hank Williams Jnr, whose song was pulled as the opening of ESPN's U.S. Monday Night Football telecast, apologized on Tuesday for an analogy about Adolf Hitler in talking about U.S. President Barack Obama.

Williams, the son of a 1940s and 1950s U.S. country music legend, spoke Monday on the Fox News show "Fox & Friends" about Obama's recent golf outing with a political rival, U.S. House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner.

In its 23rd year on TV, "The Simpsons" could be on the endangered species list.

The show's producer said Tuesday that the show can't continue under its current financial model.

The Baghdad International Film Festival, which runs all this week, is the latest effort by Iraqis to use an improving but precarious security situation to break their decades-long cultural isolation.

The opening ceremony on Monday had all the glitz of a major film premiere. A huge crowd, mostly young, massed along a red carpet as ushers handed out glossy programs at the entrance to the national theatre in the city center.

A treasure hunt devised by composer Stephen Sondheim prompted hundreds of people, including Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick, to scamper through the dinosaur section of the American Museum of Natural History on Monday night.

"That was a blast," said Tony Award-winning actor John Benjamin Hickey, even though his team came up short at the charity gala. "It's the most fun I've ever had losing."

One for all and all for one: Athos, Porthos and Aramis will be swashbuckling their way down the red carpet in London for the world premiere of "The Three Musketeers in 3D."

The trio of actors taking on the legendary characters — Matthew Macfadyen, Ray Stevenson and Luke Evans — will be joined at Tuesday's launch by Logan Lerman, who plays their hotheaded colleague, D'Artagnan.

"Dancing With the Stars" contestants were asked to perform routines that reflected the most meaningful year of their lives, and when the dancing was done Monday night, Ricki Lake was in first place and Chaz Bono was in last — just like last week.

Lake's rumba, about finding love again after a painful divorce, was three points from perfect with a score of 27.

The musical fantasy world of Michael Jackson was revived Sunday when Cirque du Soleil's "Immortal World Tour" tribute to the pop idol made its global premiere in Montreal.

A colorful range of special effects, stage smoke and video clips combined with dynamic dance routines like those that the "King of Pop" was renowned for in a spectacle estimated to have cost $60 million to bring to life.

The saturated colors, shrill background music and over-dramatic dialogue are the hallmarks of any ordinary Indian television soap opera. What happens next is a lot less typical.

"I can never love you or any other woman. I am in love with a man," a young man tells his shocked wife, while his boyfriend looks on, relieved.