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....

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....

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

Coen, Guirgis on tap at Atlantic Theater Company
NEW YORK (AP) -- The world premiere of Ethan Coen's first full-length stage play, a revival of "The Threepenny Opera" and a new play by Stephen Adly Guirgis will highlight the Atlantic Theater Company's upcoming season....

CBS up, 'Idol' down as traditional TV season ends
NEW YORK (AP) -- CBS is strengthening its dominance over the television industry at the same time that the unprecedented reign of "American Idol" is ending....

Darius Rucker rides 'Wagon Wheel' to top of charts
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Darius Rucker is a fan of Old Crow Medicine Show, but says he didn't really get what was so infectious about the string band's signature hit "Wagon Wheel" at first....

Russian court denies Pussy Riot's Alekhina parole
MOSCOW (AP) -- A Russian court denied parole on Thursday to a member of the Pussy Riot punk group....