Shia LaBeouf faced disorderly conduct charges Friday after being arrested for yelling obscenities at a Broadway theater performance of "Cabaret," police said.

The actor used obscene language and interfered with the show at Studio 54 in Manhattan, police said.

A concert by U.S. shock rocker Marilyn Manson has been canceled in a major Russian city over fears his performance would insult Orthodox believers and promote sadomasochism.

"There will be no Marilyn Manson concert in Novosibirsk," concert organizers said, referring to Russia's third largest city and the administrative center of Siberia.

Crash. Shatter. Boom. Crash. Shatter. Boom. Smattering of silly dialogue. Pretty girl screams: "Dad!" Crash. Shatter. Boom. Silly dialogue. "DAD!!!" Crash. Shatter. Boom.

What? Oh, sorry. We were falling into a trance there.

British actor Gary Oldman was locked in a bitter row with a Jewish lobby group Wednesday after claiming that Hollywood is "run by Jews" and defending Mel Gibson over a notorious anti-Semitic rant.

The 56-year-old apologized to the Anti-Defamation League and Jewish rights group the Simon Wiesenthal Center, saying he has "an enormous personal affinity for the Jewish people."

Jeff Koons, one of world's highest paid artists, unveils his life work in New York on Friday, a chance to understand why his art is so celebrated, so loathed and so expensive.

The Whitney Museum has devoted its entire four-floor premises to the city's first retrospective of a 35-year career that sent Koons, the "king of kitsch," into the celebrity stratosphere.

Kenyan Oscar winner Lupita Nyong'o, Somalia's Barkhad Abdi, "Happy" songster Pharrell Williams and Irish-German star Michael Fassbender are among 271 actors newly invited to join Hollywood's Oscar-bestowing Academy, organizers said Thursday.

Other non-U.S. invitees include Britain's Sally Hawkins and Steve Coogan, as well as Japanese animation master Hayao Miyazaki and Israeli-born Palestinian director Hany Abu-Assad.

With thousands of cameras capturing their every move for billions of fans, footballers know the World Cup isn't just about sport -- it's about tattoos, hairstyles, clothes and the big business of setting trends.

They arrive at airports, training sessions, press conferences and matches with carefully crafted looks, conscious that a new hairdo or tattoo can set social media networks abuzz -- and that global brands with multimillion-dollar sponsorship deals are watching.

Hip hop star Chris Brown is to stand trial on September 8 for allegedly hitting a fan outside a Washington hotel after lawyers failed to agree on a plea bargain.

The date was set by Judge Patricia Wynn in District of Columbia Superior Court where Brown appeared -- despite hot summer weather -- in a smart leather jacket, shirt, tie and khaki trousers.

Dazzling special effects, Optimus Prime ... and Beijing. The latest "Transformers" movie has all three, mixing Texas-based action with scenes in China's capital and a heavy dose of Hong Kong in an attempt to straddle the world's two biggest movie-going audiences.

The fourth installment of the Michael Bay-directed franchise has gone all-out to woo China's audience with Chinese locations, talent and even a reality TV show. "Transformers: Age of Extinction" illustrates the delicate balancing game of Hollywood studios trying to work out what the Chinese market wants while simultaneously catering to Americans.

Queen Elizabeth II and husband Prince Philip visited the set of hit TV show "Game of Thrones" in Northern Ireland Tuesday -- receiving a replica of the throne to crown her visit.

During the set tour in Belfast, the monarch was presented with a miniature Iron Throne, the massive black, snarled mesh of melted swords fought over by rival families in the global hit HBO series.