Famed New York painter Chuck Close and other artists are suing Sotheby's, Christie's and eBay, contending the auctioneers willfully violated a California law requiring royalty payments on sales of their works.

The three federal suits filed Tuesday seek class-action status to represent many other artists and demand unspecified royalties and damages — which could total hundreds of thousands of dollars given current art prices.

Health insurance premiums. Degenerative disease. Car crashes. Aging. Death. Romantic betrayal.

There are dark comedies, and there are really dark comedies. "Sons of the Prophet," Stephen Karam's absorbing new play that opened Thursday off Broadway, is definitely in the latter category.

Lindsay Lohan arrived late to her first day of community service at the county morgue Thursday and was turned away, another hiccup in the actress' effort to prove to a judge that she is complying with terms of her probation.

Lohan had been told to arrive at 8 a.m. for an orientation session but arrived 40 minutes late, spokesman Craig Harvey said. The actress was told to try again on Friday but will have to arrive at 7 a.m., he said.

Vienna's annual film festival, the Viennale, kicked off Thursday evening, promising over 200 movies and documentaries and guest stars like director David Cronenberg and legend Harry Belafonte.

The two-week event opened its 49th edition with Finnish director Aki Kaurismaki's film "Le Havre" and will close on November 2 with George Clooney's political drama "The Ides of March", one of the hits at this year's Venice Film Festival.

President Obama will have a late night chat with Jay Leno on "The Tonight Show" next week.

White House communications director Dan Pfeiffer says in a tweet that Obama will be on the show Tuesday.

After 14 years as one of Ireland's most successful boy bands, Westlife are finally handing in their mics.

The pop group members issued a statement announcing their split, saying "the decision is entirely amicable."

"The Sound of Music," the musical made world famous by the 1965 film starring Julie Andrews, has never been performed in the picture-postcard Austrian city of Salzburg where it is set.

But on Sunday this will change as the Salzburg State Theatre premieres a sell-out German-language version of the feel-good Rodgers and Hammerstein story of the singing-and-dancing von Trapp family on the eve of World War II.

A prequel to "Peter Pan" is flying to Broadway. Producers Nancy Nagel Gibbs and Greg Schaffert said Wednesday that "Peter and the Starcatcher," the first play commissioned by Disney, will be staged in the spring. It was last seen off-Broadway at the New York Theatre Workshop, where it earned five Drama Desk nominations.

The cast and theater will be announced later. When it was off-Broadway, it starred Christian Borle, who is to appear on the NBC series "Smash," and Adam Chanler-Berat, who is currently starring in the off-Broadway revival of "Rent" at New World Stages.

Trusty sidekick Snowy in tow, Tintin leaves his comic book universe for the brave new world of 3-D animation next week in Steven Spielberg's big-budget take on the boy reporter's intrepid adventures.

"The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn" brings the hero and his little white dog to the big screen on October 26, following a red-carpet world premiere in Tintin's native Brussels on Saturday.

Canadian teen pop star Justin Bieber performed before thousands of screaming teenagers in Venezuela as he concluded a Latin America tour.

Bieber, clad in a purple and white jumpsuit, opened his first-ever concert with "Love Me," as fans packed the Simon Bolivar University football stadium, where the stage had been set up.