Grammy-award winning singer-songwriter Billy Joel, who penned hit tunes such as "Piano Man" and "New York State of Mind," will receive the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song, the U.S. national library said on Tuesday.
Playwright Tracy Letts created the plot and characters in 'August: Osage County,' the Pulitzer Prize and Tony award-winning play about a dysfunctional Oklahoma family, and knew that adapting it for the screen would not be easy.
Oscar-winning director Martin Scorsese plumbs the depths of the debauched, hedonistic lifestyle of a 1990s convicted stock swindler and the world of high finance in The Wolf of Wall Street, a cautionary tale about excess, lust and greed.
Joaquin Phoenix knew he had to star in Spike Jonze's latest film 'Her,' an unconventional romance that explores ideas about intimacy, isolation, relationships and technology, because it wasn't a typical love story.
Director David O. Russell travels back to the 1970s with its blaring disco music, garish clothes and big hair in 'American Hustle,' a tale about reinvention, love and survival featuring con-artists, mobsters and an FBI sting operation.
Miley Cyrus, the pop star who caused a sensation with her raunchy performance at this year's MTV Video Music Awards, was named best artist of 2013 by the cable TV network on Tuesday.
Troubled former teenage star Amanda Bynes has left a California facility after court-ordered psychiatric treatment and is recovering at her parents' home in Los Angeles, People magazine said on Thursday.
Beautiful - The Carole King Musical, a new play in previews that opens on January 12 on Broadway, charts the rise of the Carole King from her early days as a teenager working with Goffin and songwriters Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil in New York's songwriting hub at 1650 Broadway through her divorce and move to California.
Actor Leonardo DiCaprio's conservation foundation has awarded a $3 million grant to the World Wildlife Fund to help Nepal increase its tiger population.
Writers James McBride and George Packer won National Book Awards, among the most prestigious literary prizes in U.S. publishing, at a gala dinner on Wednesday that also honored authors E.L. Doctorow and Maya Angelou.
Television journalist Elizabeth Vargas, a co-anchor on the ABC news show 20/20, said on Wednesday she was out of rehab and doing well after receiving treatment for alcohol abuse.
