Film fans bid an emotional farewell Sunday to Egyptian actress Faten Hamama, a star of Arabic cinema and ex-wife of Omar Sharif, who was buried at her family cemetery in Cairo.

Hamama, who made her screen debut at seven years old, died on Saturday aged 83, after a career spanning seven decades and almost 100 films alongside masters of Egypt's film industry, including Youssef Chahine.

He's wowing fashionistas at Milan Men's Fashion Week, and rising star designer Andrea Pompilio says this is just the beginning, with a host of young labels like his ready to revitalise the menswear industry.

Italian-born Pompilio, who showed off a Fall-Winter 2015 runway collection on Saturday inspired by his grandfather's military uniforms, is one of the "new generation" of designers admitted to the prestigious week of catwalk shows.

Bjork plans a series of intimate concerts at New York classical halls as the experimental Icelandic singer releases her new album in March.

Bjork on her website announced shows on March 7 and 14 at Carnegie Hall, one of the world's premier classical venues, followed by four concerts at the nearby New York City Center, which is home to dance performances.

Egyptian actress Faten Hamama, an Arab film icon and Omar Sharif's former wife, died Saturday at the age of 83, their son Tarek Sharif told AFP.

Hamama, who was less than 10 when she made her screen debut, appeared in almost 100 films and worked with masters of Egypt's massive film industry, including Youssef Chahine.

Russian director Andrei Zvyagintsev's sombre social drama "Leviathan" may have been nominated for an Oscar, but at home the film has sparked heated debate, with the arts minister claiming it blackens Russia's image.

The film will not even be released in Russia until next month, but that hasn't proved an impediment to criticism, reminding observers of the Soviet joke about the hate campaign against Boris Pasternak's novel "Doctor Zhivago": "I haven't read it but I condemn it."

About two dozen protesters rallied outside Bill Cosby's show in Pueblo Friday night, but the comedian's performance went off without a hitch.

The Pueblo Chieftain reports (http://bit.ly/1sJa6qo ) that the demonstrators chanted "no means no" and "Colorado believes the women."

Stevie Wonder is on board for an NBC miniseries set against the 19th-century Underground Railroad that helped escaped slaves find freedom.

Wonder, who will serve as executive producer for the project, also may be involved in a musical adaptation of the miniseries that is aimed at Broadway, NBC Entertainment Chairman Bob Greenblatt said Friday.

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.