Legendary Swedish pop band ABBA on Thursday were among the 12 first artists to join the Swedish Music Hall of Fame, which celebrates the country's rich pop tradition.
"I think it's a nice thing to do, to create a Swedish Music Hall of Fame," 67-year-old former ABBA member Benny Andersson told Agence France Presse.

Doutzen Kroes is pregnant with her second child.
The Victoria’s Secret model announced the happy news by sharing a tasteful black and white nude photograph on her Instagram account on Thursday morning.

New York Fashion Week explodes onto a snowy Manhattan Thursday, kicking off the fall/winter 2014 season with a new look and 300 catwalk presentations before the industry shows head to Europe.
The week-long fest of glamour, style and celebrity endorsement will see frenzied fashionistas high-tail it across the city, squeezing in back-to-back shows from morning until night.

The latest Brad Pitt-Angelina Jolie sequel is being described as powerful and elegant with a "mouthwatering finish."
These raves don't appear in movie publications — they're from Decanter magazine's review of the celebrity couple's second vintage of rose wine produced at their French Provencal estate, Chateau Miraval.

A lawyer for Tom Cruise poured scorn on a $1 billion lawsuit alleging that filmmakers stole a screenwriter's work to create a blockbuster "Mission: Impossible" film, calling the legal action "bizarre."
Timothy Patrick McLanahan claims the 2011 film "Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol" was based on a script he wrote in 1998 called "Head On," which he tried unsuccessfully to get made in Hollywood.

Feted by Madonna and cheered by thousands, Russian punk protest group Pussy Riot defied President Vladimir Putin on the eve of the Sochi Olympics at a star-studded New York concert.
The performance highlighted soaring tensions between Russia and the United States, which drastically deteriorated when Moscow granted asylum to U.S. intelligence leaker Edward Snowden last year.

The results of an autopsy on Oscar-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman's body were inconclusive, and further tests have been ordered, the New York medical examiner's office said Wednesday.
A spokeswoman told Agence France Presse that pathologists had not yet reached a conclusion on the cause and manner of the death of the 46-year-old, whose body was found in his New York home on Sunday.

U.S. police investigating the death of actor Philip Seymour Hoffman from an apparent drugs overdose arrested three men and a woman with a large amount of heroin, police said Wednesday.
The three men aged 22, 48 and 57, and the woman, 22, were all detained on drug-related charges, a police spokesman told Agence France Presse.

Written by Anthony Sargon
You don’t generally expect to see a movie like “The Monuments Men” in theaters at this time of year. Given the film’s pedigree, it seems a lot better suited for an October-December release, which was actually the case until it got delayed to early 2014. Producers are claiming that post-production ran a bit long, but that’s the polite way of saying “it wasn’t good enough to get Oscar nominations.” While “The Monuments Men” certainly doesn’t live up to its full potential, there’s still enough to enjoy in this old-fashioned, quirky picture.

Heroin recovered at Oscar-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman's apartment after he was found there dead with a syringe in his arm has tested negative for the powerful additive fentanyl, a police official said.
Samples taken from Hoffman's Manhattan apartment didn't contain the potent synthetic morphine, which is added to intensify the high and has been linked to 22 suspected overdose deaths in western Pennsylvania, the official, who wasn't authorized to talk about the evidence and insisted on anonymity, said Tuesday.
