Sorrentino serves up a cinema banquet at Cannes
CANNES, France (AP) -- Paolo Sorrentino has a thing about food - appropriately enough, for the director of a sumptuous feast of a film, "The Great Beauty."...

Seen and heard at the Cannes Film Festival
CANNES, France (AP) -- Associated Press journalists open their notebooks at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival....

West Bank and romance prominent in 'Omar'
CANNES, France (AP) -- One of the more buzzed-about films at the Cannes Film Festival, "Omar," is set in the West Bank, and the Palestinian conflict is a key part of the plot....

87-year-old woman loses to Trump in civil case
CHICAGO (AP) -- An 87-year-old grandmother took on billionaire Donald Trump. And on Thursday, she lost....

Shelton, Underwood coming to aid of Oklahomans
Blake Shelton has a date and location for his benefit and fellow Oklahoman Carrie Underwood is writing a large check to help benefit those affected by this week's storms in their home state....

Brown hounded for calling Manila 'gates of hell'
MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- Dan Brown's description of Manila as "the gates of hell" in the American novelist's latest book has not gone down well with officials in the Philippine capital....

Writer Chinua Achebe honored in Nigeria funeral
OGIDI, Nigeria (AP) -- Writer Chinua Achebe shunned Nigeria's corrupt politicians and twice turned down national honors, never fearing to criticize those he felt ruined his country. On Thursday, however, the lawmakers and the country's elite came to praise him....

Mary J. Blige faces $3.4M federal tax lien in NJ
HACKENSACK, N.J. (AP) -- Mary J. Blige and her husband have been hit with a $3.4 million tax lien in New Jersey....

Warrant for rapper Tim Dog, despite death reports
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -- Lack of a death certificate or of a burial site and sparse obituary information led to talk in hip-hop circles that rapper Tim Dog, who owes thousands of dollars to women he was convicted of swindling, faked his own death in February....

Jerry Lewis repeats his distaste for female comics
CANNES, France (AP) -- Ladies? Don't make him laugh....