Some family secrets are too big to bury.

Playwright Daniel Talbott has written a searing drama of a family trapped in a downward spiral, both emotionally and financially, in his dark new play "Yosemite," which opened Thursday night off-Broadway in a compelling production at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater.

Hollywood's Snow White rivalry is heating up.

Movie studio Relativity Media on Thursday pushed back the release of its lighthearted fairy tale starring Julia Roberts, "Mirror Mirror," by two weeks to March 30. That cuts the time between it and Universal Picture's pulsating action movie, "Snow White and the Huntsman," to nine weeks instead of 11.

Stars including Justin Bieber and Smokey Robinson paid tribute to Michael Jackson on Thursday, as the late star's three children immortalized his shoe- and glove-prints at a Hollywood landmark.

Paris, Prince and Blanket made a rare appearance at a ceremony outside the Grauman's Chinese Theatre, where the hand and footprints of generations of stars are recorded in cement, attracting millions of tourists every year.

Film director Alfred Hitchcock, author Roald Dahl and artist Lucian Freud are among the people who have snubbed honors from the British monarch, government records revealed for the first time Thursday.

Painters Francis Bacon and L. S. Lowry, the sculptor Henry Mooreand "Brave New World" novelist Aldous Huxley are also on the list published by the Cabinet Office ministry.

Former Beatle Paul McCartney is composing music for a video game which he hopes will introduce his work to a whole new generation, he has told a German newspaper published Thursday.

The 69-year-old musician told Die Zeit weekly newspaper that he had found the prospect exciting and that a new video game was currently a better seller than a new CD.

Amy Winehouse. There is no mistaking the look of the first model at Jean Paul Gaultier's couture show Wednesday, the beehive hair and thick eyeliner, black skirt and brassiere visible under a white top.

"Amy Winehouse was a true style icon," Gaultier told reporters backstage after a show conceived as a tribute to the soul singer, six months after her untimely death.

Elie Saab stole into the tower and gave Rapunzel a gift to dazzle any passing prince — a new gown that shimmers royally.

Models with long rope-like ponytails in luminous shantung silk gowns blossomed at Wednesday's showing of the Lebanese designer's spring-summer haute couture collection.

One of the youngest dancers ever to be a principal of the Royal Ballet, Ukrainian Sergei Polunin, has quit just days before a new production opens and only two years after he was promoted.

"This has obviously come as a huge shock," said Monica Mason, the director of the Royal Ballet, in a statement issued late Tuesday.

Los Angeles mayor Antonio Villaraigosa signed into law Tuesday an ordinance requiring porn actors to use condoms, a measure welcomed by AIDS campaigners.

City lawmakers voted in favor of the law earlier this month, in the latest move in a battle between AIDS activists and the California-based US adult film industry.

On day two of Paris's frantic three days of haute couture collections, Chanel took the fashion crowd to the skies and highlights included super-sexy, celebrity-filled Armani Prive.

Tuesday's haute couture shows felt more flashy than in previous seasons — perhaps owing to confidence after some fashion houses revealed rising sales figures during last year.