What's a girl to do when, just hours before her long-awaited marriage, some other guy tries to strong arm her into wedlock!

Such is the slim dilemma driving the sassy, flashy new musical comedy, "Honeymoon in Vegas."

British singer Sarah Brightman has delayed the start of her training to be a space tourist but plans to go ahead with her flight, Russia's space agency said Friday.

Brightman, the soprano famed for her roles in musicals by her ex-husband Andrew Lloyd Webber, arrived in Moscow and was due to start training this week for her flight, planned for October, for which she will reportedly pay around $52 million.

Julianne Moore scored her fifth Oscar nomination Thursday -- and some say her role as a professor with early onset Alzheimer's disease in "Still Alice" could finally bring her a golden statuette.

In her latest movie, the radiant 54-year-old redhead plays a woman who has everything -- love, children and a career, but faces losing it all as she descends into the fog of dementia.

A judge has revoked Chris Brown's probation but allowed him to remain free for now after the R&B singer traveled without approval for a concert and failed to complete community service on time.

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge James R. Brandlin allowed Brown to remain free until a March 20 hearing when the judge will receive an update from probation officials.

A cowboy who became one of the most recognizable faces of Philip Morris tobacco's iconic "Marlboro Man" advertising campaigns has died, funeral home officials said Thursday.

Darrell Winfield, 85, passed away on Monday at his home in the western state of Wyoming, a statement from the Davis Funeral home said.

There may be no shortage of British talent in Hollywood, but all eyes in Britain are now on Eddie Redmayne, the newcomer hoping to add an Oscar to the Golden Globe he has just won.

The 33-year-old has been nominated in the best actor category for his role as theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking in "The Theory of Everything", the world's most famous living scientist crippled by an advanced form of motor neurone disease.

Here are the nominees in the main categories at the 87th Academy Awards, to be handed out on February 22 at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood:

Dark comedy "Birdman" and stylish crime caper "The Grand Budapest Hotel" topped the Oscars nominations list Thursday with nine each, firing the starting gun on the home stretch of Hollywood's awards race.

In second place was World War II code-breaking thriller "The Imitation Game," with eight nominations. Clint Eastwood's "American Sniper" and coming-of-age drama "Boyhood" each earned six nods. 

The main operating unit of troubled US casino giant Caesars Entertainment -- owners of the famed Caesars Palace in Las Vegas -- said Wednesday it was filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

Caesars Entertainment Operating Company said the move was part of a restructuring plan aimed at strengthening its financial position and slashing debt, but that all its properties would remain open for business.

On a recent Saturday afternoon, Bradley Cooper took his curtain call at Broadway's Booth Theater, where he's starring in "The Elephant Man." He then had to race to a meeting, conduct an interview for this article, and find time to eat and nap before taking the stage again for his 8 p.m. show.

There's definitely a lot going on for Cooper, who turned 40 earlier this month. Along with eight Broadway performances a week, he's busy promoting one of his biggest movies to date, as both actor and producer: Clint Eastwood's "American Sniper," in which Cooper transforms himself — to much critical acclaim — into late Navy SEAL marksman Chris Kyle, a real-life personality whom he looks and sounds nothing like.