Anna Wintour, the celebrity editor at Vogue magazine who has been talked about as a possible ambassador to France or Britain, was named artistic director Wednesday at the magazine's parent company Conde Nast.

Charles Townsend, Conde Nast chief executive, said the appointment expands Wintour's responsibilities.

By day, Janet Stephens cuts and colors at a hair salon. By night, she is an amateur archaeologist, meticulously recreating hairstyles dating back to the times of Roman antiquity.

Stephens, 54, who has worked as a hairdresser for more than two decades, recreates updos from the Roman era at her home in Baltimore, about 40 miles (65 kilometers) from Washington, DC.

"Short Term 12," a drama set in a center for troubled teenagers, took top honors for narrative feature film Tuesday at the South by Southwest (SXSW) festival.

Directed by Destin Daniel Cretton and based on an eponymous short he made in 2008 that won a Sundance jury prize, the film stars Brie Larson as a twenty-something foster home supervisor with a difficult past of her own.

U.S. authorities were investigating Tuesday after hackers leaked personal financial data apparently belonging to first lady Michelle Obama, the head of the FBI and several A-list celebrities.

Hackers using a Russian web address published what they said were the credit reports of Obama, Federal Bureau of Investigation director Robert Mueller, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, and Los Angeles Police Chief Charles Beck.

Iranian media say authorities are planning to sue Hollywood over the Oscar-winning "Argo" because of the movie's allegedly "unrealistic portrayal" of the country.

Several news outlets, including the pro-reform Shargh daily, said on Tuesday that French lawyer Isabelle Coutant-Peyre is in Iran for talks with officials over how and where to file the lawsuit. Coutant-Peyre is also the lawyer for notorious Venezuelan-born terrorist Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, known as Carlos the Jackal.

The One World international human rights documentary film festival which opens in Bucharest on Tuesday will give special focus to the Holocaust to highlight the devastating consequences of hatred and intolerance.

"The 6th edition of the (One World Romania) festival aims to be an antidote to hatred", organizers said.

The Cannes Film Festival has an American flavor this year, with a Hollywood icon heading the jury and a quintessential U.S. literary figure opening the event: The Great Gatsby.

Organizers said Tuesday that the film "The Great Gatsby," with Leonardo DiCaprio in the title role and directed by Australian Baz Luhrmann, will open this year's Cannes festival — in 3D, no less.

British singer and ex-Smiths frontman Morrissey has postponed a U.S. show due to double pneumonia, his publicist said Monday, but denied he had been hospitalized.

In the latest rejig of U.S. tour dates due to health woes, Saturday's canceled concert in San Francisco will now take place on May 1. The 53-year-old was hospitalized in Michigan for a bleeding ulcer in January.

U.S. director Steven Spielberg is planning to produce a film set partly on the de facto border between India and Pakistan in the disputed Kashmir region, a report said Tuesday.

Spielberg, who is currently in India's entertainment capital Mumbai, told The Times of India that the film would be produced by his DreamWorks Studios and its Indian partner Reliance Entertainment, which is headed by tycoon Anil Ambani.

A defense lawyer says prosecutors are not seeking jail time for actor Stephen Baldwin, who's accused of not paying his New York income taxes for three years.

There's a court conference Monday in the case against Baldwin, the youngest of the four acting Baldwin brothers.