Saul Zaentz, a music producer whose second career as a filmmaker brought him best-picture Academy Awards for "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," ''Amadeus" and "The English Patient," has died. He was 92.
Zaentz died Friday at his San Francisco apartment after suffering from Alzheimer's disease, PaulZaentz, the producer's nephew and longtime business partner told the Associated Press.

Ke$ha has checked into rehab to treat an eating disorder.
The "Tik Tok" singer says in a statement provided by her spokesman Friday that she'll be unavailable for the next 30 days while she seeks treatment for an undisclosed eating disorder.

A Nazi-hunting family has called for protests against controversial French comedian Dieudonne over his vitriolic brand of humor targeting Jews, as a government minister said he must pay fines accrued for racist abuse.
France's Interior Minister Manuel Valls is training his sights on Dieudonne, whose trademark gesture is viewed as being Nazi-inspired, and is examining options to try to legally block performances by a man he brands a "little trader of hate".

Singer Phil Everly of the famed Everly Brothers died Friday, his widow told The Los Angeles. He was 74.
Everly passed away in the Californian city of Burbank due to complications from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, Patti Everly told the newspaper.

Americans rekindle their peculiar love affair with the post-Edwardian demise of English aristocracy on Sunday when season four of "Downton Abbey" premieres on U.S. public television.
The internationally-acclaimed British period drama set in a grand old Yorkshire country estate is seen in about 100 countries around the world -- but nowhere does it enjoy the kind of cult following it has in the United States.

The car carrying late "Fast and Furious" star Paul Walker was doing over 100 mph (160 kph) when it crashed, nearly cutting the high-powered vehicle in half, coroners said Friday.
The 40-year-old actor's body was charred beyond recognition and lying "in a pugilistic stance" caused by the intense heat, they said. Walker was in the passenger seat of the car in the November 30 fatal accident.

Most of us grew up watching Disney musicals. Heck, I still consider “The Lion King” as one of my all-time favorite movies (and I’m sure many of you do too). “Frozen”, the latest film to come out of Walt Disney Animation Studios, is a charming tale of friendship and love, and while it doesn’t reach the heights of some of Disney’s classics, it’s a sweet and beautifully animated film that will please its target audience, while reminding adults why they fell in love with Disney cartoons in the first place. And yes, it’s a musical, but don’t let that scare you away.
“Frozen” tells the story of Elsa (Idina Menzel) and Anna (Kristen Bell), two young princesses hailing from the Kingdom of Arendelle. Elsa is no ordinary princess, however; she possesses special powers that allow her to control weather, and she can pretty much turn anything she wants into an icicle. When Elsa accidentally injures Anna while playing, her parents consult some sort of Goblin leader, and he proceeds to erase Anna’s memory so that she forgets that her sister possesses such powers. As a result, Elsa must now live in seclusion, away from her beloved sister, so that she may never accidentally hurt her, or anyone else, again. Many years later, and after some pretty grim circumstances, Elsa is forced out of hiding, and when she accidentally freezes her entire kingdom, she leaves Arendelle to live in seclusion in her very own Ice palace. Determined to bring her sister back and end a seemingly eternal winter, Anna goes after her sister with the help of Olaf the snowman (Josh Gad), mountain man Kristoff (Jonathan Groff) and his reindeer Sven.

A high profile French comic, who could be slapped with a rare ban from the national stage, ironically began his career fighting racism before falling from grace as a "trader of hate".
Dieudonne, the burly and bearded comedian known by one name, is no stranger to controversy. But in the last month, his increasingly vitriolic brand of humor targeting Jews has set him at odds with the French interior minister himself.

It's the kind of puzzle that might have amused Sherlock Holmes himself.
Now that copyright protections have expired on nearly all of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's tales about the pipe-puffing detective in the deerstalker hat, are writers free to depict the character in new mysteries without seeking permission or paying license fees?

Almost 40 years after one of Bollywood's most famous films broke box office records, "Sholay" (Embers) has been restored for release Friday in 3D to a new generation of moviegoers.
The iconic Indian film, which stars Amitabh Bachchan, Dharmendra, Amjad Khan and other Bollywood greats, is an action adventure about two petty thieves hired by a police officer to exact revenge on a ruthless bandit.
