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Legendary American actress, director, singer, producer, composer, philanthropist and activist Barbra Streisand will receive an honorary doctor of philosophy degree from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Ray Manzarek , founding keyboardist of The Doors , died Monday at age 74 at a medical clinic in Rosenheim, Germany, after a long battle with bile-duct cancer.

There was the spectacle, the runaway budget, the fights with the studio. But almost everyone thinks about the 1963 movie "Cleopatra" for one thing: Liz and Dick.

Stagecrafters doesn't repeat their productions very often with the exception of the classics such as The Sound of Music.

Veteran star John Hurt has been unveiled as an incarnation of The Doctor as the latest series of Doctor Who reached its climax last night.

President Obama on Sunday told the graduating class at Morehouse College, the country's pre-eminent historically black college, there is "no time for excuses" for this generation of African-American men and that it was time for their generation to step up professionally and in their personal lives.

Known for her humanitarian works and action movies, Angelina Jolie is an actress who has been in the spotlight since she was a child.

A few weeks ago, a Monmouth University/Asbury Park Press poll was taken to gauge whom New Jerseyans view as their favorite president.

Kerry Washington may have taken television by storm, playing crisis manager Olivia Pope on ABC's Scandal , but she joked Sunday that she is still haunted by being cast as a frog in a college musical.

Is Baz Luhrmann's take on the 1925 novel a stunning visual feast for the eyes, or a case of style over substance? Graham Young finds out... Opening in 1922 and based on the 1925 novel by American author F Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby has already been adapted for the silver screen three times.

The twice Oscar-nominated filmmaker's latest project, Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight, which is being screened out of competition, is the only feature-length film by a major UK director at this year's event.

Pregnant reality star KIM KARDASHIAN has fuelled rumours she's expecting a daughter with rapper KANYE WEST - the invitations to her baby shower feature a dancing ballerina.

Two men suspected of killing Malcolm Shabazz, the grandson of US political activist Malcolm X, have been remanded in custody in Mexico.

Battles and skirmishes. Living history scenarios. Confederate and Union camp life displays.

Baz Luhrmann's film The Great Gatsby has the turbulent emotions of F. Scott Fitzgerald's book.

For so many of us, Julie Andrews loomed large in our childhoods, a constant presence through repeated viewings of those two iconic films, MARY POPPINS, and THE SOUND of MUSIC.

Gary Rapkin, Bonita Unified School District superintendent, is a lifelong devotee of Jackie Robinson, the pioneering athlete who broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball when he joined the Brooklyn Dodgers.

Take the kids on an educational outing that they are sure to remember. The Ronald Reagan Library and Museum is open to visitors and you can get an impressive history and political education while you are there.

Richard Hanks, author of This War is for a Whole Life: The Culture of Resistance among Southern California Indians, 1850-1966." A lecture on the fight for Indian sovereignty in Southern California will feature speaker Richard A. Hanks at 7 p.m. Saturday May 18, at Dorothy Ramon Learning Center Gathering Hall in Banning.

Paul Thomas Anderson is one of the most prestigious directors in Hollywood , and he's worked with some of the best actors in the industry.