French movie star Alain Delon said Friday he was quitting as honorary president of the Miss France beauty contest committee after it berated him for backing the far-right National Front party.

"Your committee thought it was good to react publicly," the 77-year-old actor said in a scathing letter.

A French osteopath whose list of famous clients included Pablo Picasso and Rudolf Nureyev was on Friday sentenced to 10 years in jail for raping and sexually assaulting female patients.

Nineteen women had come forward to accuse Pierre Pallardy, 72, of unwanted sexual advances. A court in Paris found him guilty of five instances of rape and seven cases of sexual assault.

Andrea Bocelli will receive a graduate degree in Italy next week.

The 55-year-old tenor says he'll receive a master's degree in vocal performance from The Conservatory of Music, Giacomo Puccini in La Spezia, Italy, on Tuesday.

NBC-Universal employees have been told the recasting of Christian Grey in the company's film version of the erotic best-seller "Fifty Shades of Grey" will be finalized in the next few weeks.

A company-wide "town hall" on Wednesday covered a variety of subjects but "Fifty Shades" was the inevitable hot topic in the wake of last weekend's announcement that Charlie Hunnam was dropping out as Christian Grey, according to an NBC-Universal employee who attended the meeting.

An attorney for Stephen Baldwin says the actor will turn over $100,000 on Friday toward his delinquent New York tax bill.

That leaves him just $200,000 in arrears.

Catherine Deneuve, who turns 70 next week, is one of a generation of mature actresses for whom interesting character roles are no longer a rarity.

Judy Dench, 78, Helen Mirren, 68, Meryl Streep, 64, and "Amour" star Emmanuelle Riva, 86, have in recent years blazed a trail largely barred to their predecessors.

Sales of vinyl records in Britain are at their highest level for more than a decade, doubling in the past year thanks in part to the new Daft Punk album, an industry body said Thursday.

Almost 550,000 LPs have been sold so far in 2013, the highest number in any full year since 2003, according to the BPI, which represents the British record industry.

A book deal, tabloid attention and now a new television show — it's a busy time in the public eye for 25-year-old Ronan Farrow.

MSNBC announced Wednesday that it had hired Mia Farrow's son, a human rights activist and former Rhodes scholar, to host a weekday program on the left-leaning cable television network starting sometime next year.

William Shakespeare's romantic tragedy "Romeo an d Juliet" easily lends itself to modern interpretations, with its ageless story of young lovers forever trapped in their cycle of doom.

Classic Stage Company is presenting an energetic contemporary version, directed by Tea Alagic and starring Elizabeth Olsen and Julian Cihi as the heedless couple that opened off-Broadway Wednesday night.

Oussama Bachachi and Nancy Ajram have reached an agreement ending litigation and post-judgment proceedings in Harris County, Texas District Court arising from a dispute as to the production of the superstar’s May 2012 concert in Houston.

Mr. Bachachi, a prolific promoter of Arab and Middle Eastern performers in Texas, said "I am pleased that we have worked together to bring this to a close. Now we can focus on bringing the best music in the world to the people of Texas."