Growing up as the daughter of film director Tay Garnett, best known for his 1946 thriller "The Postman Only Rings Twice", Tiela Garnett learned all about the highs and lows of Hollywood from an early age.

Tay Garnett, who died in 1977 at the age of 83, began his career as a writer in silent films before going on to make over 40 movies with some of the biggest names in 20th century cinema from Humphrey Bogart and Gregory Peck to Marilyn Monroe and Marlene Dietrich.

South Korean prosecutors said Thursday they had charged four TV celebrities with illegal use of propofol, a short-acting sedative and anaesthetic blamed in the death of U.S. pop legend Michael Jackson.

Park Si-Yeon, Lee Seung-Yeon, Jang Mi-In-Ae and Hyun Young were charged with taking the prescription drug for "non-medical purposes", a spokesman for the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office, told Agence France Presse.

A Kenyan acrobat fell through a safety net during a show at a Moscow circus on and was rushed to a hospital with severe injuries including a fractured vertebra.

An amateur video aired on Russian television showed 22-year-old Karo Christopher Kazungu falling through the safety net and onto the arena floor during the Wednesday evening show.

The indie music portion of the South by Southwest (SXSW) festival shifted into gear Wednesday with Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds setting the tone for five days of cutting edge sounds.

Cave and colleagues took the al fresco stage behind Austin's iconic Stubb's BBQ saloon for a visceral 10-song set -- one of the most anticipated at SXSW -- including numbers from the Bad Seeds' just-released album "Push the Sky Away."

Eva Longoria hasn't slowed down since "Desperate Housewives" signed off after eight seasons last year. In fact, the actress says the word "lazy" isn't in her vocabulary.

"There are days when I relax but it won't be a full day. It usually means I'm gonna clean out my closet. That's relaxing for me. Or I'm gonna cook a full meal for my family and friends," Longoria, who will be 38 on Friday, said in a recent interview.

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.