Posted: 4:33 PM The gown Elizabeth Taylor wore at the first of her eight weddings is for sale. You'll need at least 30,000 pounds ($47,000) to buy it and a tiny waist to wear it.

Posted: 12:05 PM "Dancing With the Stars" duo Karina Smirnoff and Maksim Chmerkovskiy have shimmied aboard the Broadway-bound "Forever Tango."

Posted: 11:25 AM Country singer Slim Whitman has died at the age of 90 in Florida.

Posted: 2:29 PM Following crowd-funding campaigns from "Veronica Mars" and Zach Braff, James Franco is seeking to raise $500,000 to bankroll a trilogy of movies.

Posted: 10:17 AM British police say they are investigating after a newspaper published photos of Nigella Lawson's husband Charles Saatchi with his hands around the celebrity chef's throat.

Posted: 10:08 AM Netflix is going to start running original television series from Dreamworks Animation.

Posted: 7:28 AM "Man of Steel" leaped over box office expectations in a single weekend.

Posted: 8:26 PM Beyonce has settled a New York City lawsuit that said she didn't play fair in a deal for a video game structured around her.

Updated: 4:54 PM A string quartet from The Philadelphia Orchestra has made a lengthy flight delay quite enjoyable for a plane full of lucky passengers in China.

Updated: 4:39 PM The man who helped pave the way for rock 'n' roll is finally getting a permanent exhibit in his Wisconsin hometown, after more than a decade in the making.

Posted: 1:55 PM British novelist Tom Sharpe, who satirized everything from apartheid to academe in a series of best-sellers, has died at the age of 85.

Updated: 6:59 PM Esther Williams, the swimming champion turned movie star, has died at age 91.

Posted: 10:34 AM Insight Communications will soon transition to Time Warner Cable, which will require some action for customers who use Insight for telephone or Internet service.

Posted: 5:14 PM Lindsey Vonn took an unexpected detour during her evening at an awards show - off the red carpet and into the women's bathroom for drug testing.

Posted: 4:56 PM American novelist A.M. Homes has won this year's Women's Prize for Fiction with her sixth novel, "May We Be Forgiven."

Updated: 5:13 PM When you wish upon a star, be sure to bring your wallet. Disneyland has raised its ticket prices.

Posted: 1:27 PM Ten early novels that Michael Crichton wrote under pen names while he was in medical school are coming out as e-books.

Posted: 1:10 PM Bette Midler is officially box office gold - her one-woman Broadway show has recouped its $2.4 million investment in just over eight weeks.

Updated: 4:34 PM Oprah Winfrey doesn't have a daily talk show anymore. But two years after abdicating her throne, the former talk-show queen is clear who she thinks now wear the crowns: Kelly Ripa and Michael Strahan.

Posted: 3:09 PM Rob Lowe will portray President John F. Kennedy in a National Geographic film about the former president's 1963 assassination.

Posted: 2:21 PM Creative writing was Rick Springfield's first love, and he's returning to it with his debut novel.

Posted: 2:00 PM Rebecca Hall, who plays a brilliant biologist in "Iron Man 3," will soon get to play a murderer onstage.

Posted: 12:05 PM Everyone's favorite literary singleton will return in a new novel entitled "Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy."

Updated: 7:57 PM A Canadian man facing federal charges of stalking the brother of actress Jennifer Lawrence in Kentucky has been ordered to undergo a psychiatric exam.

Posted: 2:53 PM The painting depicts the island from across the East River against a dark silhouette of buildings. The island was renamed for President Franklin Roosevelt in 1971.