France has paid tribute to Grammy winner Lenny Kravitz with its highest award, the Legion of Honor.

Culture Minister Frederic Mitterrand hailed the 47-year-old singer-songwriter at a Paris ceremony on Wednesday, telling him "you freed yourself of the barriers between black and white sound."

Eccentric "Bad Romance" songstress Lady Gaga says she has an "inability to know what happiness feels like with a man," in typically outspoken comments accompanying a nude magazine photo spread.

Gaga posed for a series of trademark Annie Leibovitz pictures on the cover and inside pages of the latest edition of Vanity Fair -- including one shot of her naked, being painted by veteran crooner Tony Bennett.

Michael Jackson's personal doctor received the maximum punishment in the pop singer's death but not before a scolding from the judge for violating his Hippocratic oath and engaging in "money-for-medicine madness."

Despite Judge Michael Pastor's sharp rebuke of Dr. Conrad Murray, medical ethics and legal experts say the outcome is unlikely to dramatically change the culture of celebrity medicine.

Don't call it a comeback. It's a tribute.

"NCIS: Los Angeles" star and rapper LL Cool J is nervously excited to pause from his duties as host of the Grammy nominations concert special Wednesday to perform with a multigenerational group of rappers.

It's shortly after 9:00 am in Mumbai's red light district and about 100 men are jostling at the box office window of the New Roshan Talkies cinema to buy tickets for 15 rupees (30 U.S. cents) each.

The film hasn't been listed in any of the day's newspapers and it's soon clear why: the movie -- advertised by a poster of two busty women alongside a muscle-bound hero -- is a "morning show".

U.S. pop singer Britney Spears will deliver a free Christmas concert in a downtown Mexico City plaza, Mayor Marcelo Ebrard said.

Spears will perform at the Monument to the Revolution on Sunday, kicking of Christmas festivities in the populous city, Ebrard said Tuesday.

A dress worn by the late singer Amy Winehouse on the cover of her album "Back to Black" sold for £43,200 at auction in London on Tuesday, the auction house said.

The proceeds from the printed chiffon dress will go to the Amy Winehouse Foundation, a charitable trust set up by her family which supports activities for vulnerable young people.

First there was Marley, the rambunctious Labrador retriever whose death brought readers to tears in John Grogan's "Marley and Me." Now there's Sammy, a mixed-breed hound who's the subject of another tear-jerker, a children's book, "Sammy in the Sky."

When her beloved hound dog died, Pulitzer Prize-Winning journalist Barbara Walsh watched her young daughters tearfully struggle with their loss and with tough questions. Walsh quickly realized there was a story to be told, one that she hopes will help other families deal with the loss of a pet.

The British Fashion Council on Monday honored Sarah Burton for Alexander McQueen as Designer of the Year for 2011.

The council said Burton — who earlier this year drew praise for designing Kate Middleton's much-heralded wedding dress — has "allowed McQueen's legacy to live on while still giving her own twist of creative genius to a collection that has outshone its rivals on and off the catwalk."

Anne Hathaway has signed on for a new role: Fiancee.

A spokesman for the 29-year-old actress says Hathaway is engaged to boyfriend and fellow actor Adam Shulman.