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Mitchell Lucker, frontman for rising death-metal band Suicide Silence, died Thursday of injuries sustained in a Southern California motorcycle crash. He was 28. Lucker lost control of his black 2013 Harley-Davidson in Huntington Beach at 8: 55 p.m.

If anyone thinks the Vatican newspaper is still a staid broadsheet that publishes only religious news and harsh papal edicts, consider this: Recently, it ran not one but five articles about the new James Bond film.

A rare, more than 500-year-old portrait of the Madonna and child from a private collection is expected to fetch up to $15 million when it is sold at an auction of antiquities and Old Master paintings, Christie's said Thursday.

Out of the ER, Dr. Max Montalvo is carving a reputation as filmmaker

Abstract paintings have to grab you by painterly means. Ira Hoffecker's do.

The second suspect arrested in the investigation of alleged child sex abuse by the late BBC entertainer Jimmy Savile and others has been released on bail. Police said the suspect was released Friday.

Dominick Fair-banks, the great grandson of Hollywood legend, Douglas Fairbanks, has joined the upcoming Mary Pickford film The First, as a co-producer. Fairbanks is the grandson of Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.

Grey's Anatomy star Patrick Dempsey and Red Riding Hood actress Amanda Seyfried will share the big screen in the upcoming Myriad Pictures romantic comedy Wonderful Tonight, Myriad said Thursday. Written by J.

Singer-composer Bill Dees, best known for his songwriting collaboration with Roy Orbison on the hits Oh, Pretty Woman and It's Over, has died at age 73 in Mountain Home, Arkansas, according to an obituary posted online by a local funeral home.

The man behind Victoria's legendary Smile Show could be downright impetuous. The late, great Gerry Gosley liked to open his show by lowering himself from the rafters onto the McPherson Playhouse's stage.