An anti-profanity crusader has asked the ABC television network to pull this week's "Modern Family" episode in which a toddler appears to use a bleeped curse word.

"Our main goal is to stop this from happening," McKay Hatch, an 18-year-old college student who founded the No Cussing Club in 2007, said Tuesday. "If we don't, at least ABC knows that people all over the world don't want to have a 2-year-old saying the 'F-bomb' on TV."

Paris once more turns fashion capital of the world for a week starting Wednesday, playing host to menswear shows before haute couture's heady mix of craft and luxury casts its spell over the city.

Models, buyers and fashion writers are to converge on Paris for a week of trend-spotting -- and hobnobbing -- as Italy's Versace fetes its return to the couture club, in a glamorous buzz at odds with the ambient economic gloom.

French screen star Isabelle Huppert was among guests to walk a "white carpet" of snow at Tuesday's opening of the Fifth Kuestendorf film and music festival in Serbia.

The event is organized by Sarajevo-born director Emir Kusturica in Drvengard, a wooden village he built as a movie set some 250 kilometers (150 miles) southwest of Belgrade.

Egyptian tycoon Hisham Talaat Moustafa, who was jailed in 2010 for the murder of a Lebanese pop singer, will be retried next month as sought by prosecutors who complained his 15-year sentence was too lenient, a court said Monday.

The Supreme Egyptian Criminal Court decided that it would begin the new trial of Moustafa for the murder of singer and former lover Suzanne Tamim from February 6, an Agence Frnce Presse correspondent reported.

Silent movie "The Artist" secured the most nominations for Britain's BAFTAs Tuesday, just piping "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" in a key indicator ahead of the Oscars next month.

U.S. actress Meryl Streep's portrayal of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in "The Iron Lady" also goes up against Michelle Williams's role as Marilyn Monroe at Britain's biggest film awards.

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Taylor Swift graces the cover of Vogue's February issue and tells the magazine her next album will be about an "absolute crash-and-burn heartbreak" she experienced.

The Nielsen Co. says Sunday's Golden Globes ceremony was seen by 16.8 million TV viewers. It beat all network competition in its time period but dipped slightly from last year's audience for the film and TV awards show.

According to time zone-adjusted Nielsen "fast national" figures released Monday, the Globes finished within 1 percent of the 17 million viewers who tuned in to the 2011 broadcast.

From Gucci's Bohemian grunge to John Richmond's rock 'n' roll attitude and Etro's feathers, fashionistas were treated Monday to a reinterpretation of menswear classics for autumn-winter 2012.

Gucci designer Frida Giannini came up with "a vocabulary of intellectual luxury for new rebels" inspired by Austrian-born actor Helmut Berger, she said, dubbing the result "Visconti Grunge" after Berger's director and partner Luchino Visconti.

Hollywood stars hit the red carpet Sunday for the annual Golden Globes show, with silent film "The Artist" hoping to add to its awards success in the run-up to the all-important Oscars.

The modest-budget French-directed movie is taking on Tinseltown heavyweights like Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg, and A-listers including Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, George Clooney and Meryl Streep.

Ten months after John Galliano was sacked over a racist outburst, Dior has yet to name a new chief designer -- but sales are booming. Which begs the question: how long can the French fashion house thrive without a couturier at the helm?

At Paris Fashion Week in September, Christian Dior's chief executive Sidney Toledano batted away questions about Galliano's succession, saying the fashion house would take the time it needs to find the right fit.