Entertainment

Pop singer Rihanna and rapper Drake each grabbed a leading five nominations for the 2012 MTV Video Music Awards, including for video of the year for Drake's Take Care featuring Rihanna.

New Orleans police say a warrant has been issued for actor Cuba Gooding Jr. after a morning incident at a French Quarter bar. Police spokeswoman Remi Braden said the warrant issued Tuesday morning was for alleged municipal battery.

Fred Willard has a lot more time to enjoy the theatre now. ABC has cancelled Willard's improv comedy series Trust Us With Your Life, less than two weeks after Willard was arrested for allegedly committing a lewd act in a Hollywood adult theatre.

Snoop Dogg wants you to know that he's tired of hip-hop, is Bob Marley reincarnated and is embracing reggae instead of the culture of guns he once rapped about. Also, he's got a new name: Snoop Lion.

Episodes to return; Borgias will likely go four seasons, network boss says

France's Culture Ministry has confirmed that award winning French filmmaker Chris Marker has died, one day after his 91st birthday.

A staff writer for The New Yorker has resigned and his latest book has been halted after he acknowledged inventing quotes by Bob Dylan.

Film fails to rise past predecessor

Two Hobbit movies are officially becoming three as Peter Jackson and his many Hollywood backers have finalized plans to produce a third movie based on the classic fantasy book and release it in the summer of 2014.

Tony Martin, the romantic singer who appeared in movie musicals from the 1930s to the 1950s and sustained a career in records, television and nightclubs from the Depression era into the 21st century, has died. He was 98.