Get ready to dance in Madonna's old clothes.
Julien's Auctions announced Tuesday that items from the pop icon's personal and professional life will be auctioned Nov. 7-8.
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A musical about Bob Marley that uses the Jamaican reggae icon's music is in the works for next year.
Center Stage in Baltimore said Tuesday it would present the world premiere of "Marley," written and directed by company artistic director Kwame Kwei-Armah. It will run from May 6 to June 14.
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The estate of Anna Nicole Smith has failed in its final bid to obtain her late husband's money, seven years after the death of the Playboy model and reality TV star.
A federal judge on Monday rejected the effort to obtain about $44 million from the estate of Texas billionaire J. Howard Marshall, whom Smith married in 1994 when he was 89 and she was 26. The oil tycoon died the next year. His will left his $1.6 billion estate to his son and nothing to Smith.
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Licia Albanese, an Italian-American soprano who for more than a quarter century starred at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, has died at age 105, her family said Monday.
She passed away at her home in Manhattan Friday.
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Brian Williams didn't have to look hard for a photo of actress Allison Williams as a toddler in a Peter Pan costume. A framed one has been on display in the den of his family's Connecticut home for years.
The NBC "Nightly News" anchor and proud father said he emailed family members to see if they approved of him reporting on his daughter being cast in the lead role of "Peter Pan." NBC is airing a new version of the musical live on Dec. 4.
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Sudanese model Ataui Deng, who went missing for nearly two weeks, has been found alive in a New York hospital, police said Tuesday.
The 22-year-old was last seen around midnight on August 6 as she left a Manhattan nightclub near Times Square.
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Taylor Swift is saying goodbye to country music, for now: The singer says she's releasing her first full-length pop album on Oct. 27.
The 24-year-old revealed in a livestream via Yahoo! on Monday that "1989," named for her birth year, is her "first documented official pop album."
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Police in Beijing have detained the son of Hong Kong actor Jackie Chan, apparently in connection with a drugs case, local media reported on Monday.
Jaycee Chan, who like his father has worked as an actor and singer, was detained last week alongside a Taiwanese pop star known as Kai Ko, the Beijing Times daily reported.
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The "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" remained in top spot at the North American box office this weekend, outmuscling the latest installment of Sylvester Stallone's geriatric "Expendables" action-hero franchise, estimates showed Sunday.
The famous pizza-munching turtles, on a mission to save New York from diabolical evil-doers plotting to unleash a virus across the city, raked in $28.4 million in their second weekend in theaters, box-office tracker Exhibitor Relations reported.
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Uzo Aduba is an Emmy winner for her breakout role as a prisoner known as "Crazy Eyes" in Netflix's "Orange is the New Black."
The series received two other awards, for casting and picture editing, at the creative arts Emmy ceremony Saturday honoring technical and other achievements.
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