Entertainment

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Actor Mark Salling, star of the hit television show “Glee,” was arrested yesterday on suspicion of possessing child pornography, the Los Angeles Police Department said.

Last rites of veteran Bollywood actress Sadhana Shivdasani were performed on Saturday at a crematorium in suburban Santacruz here where celebrities and family members bid adieu to the departed soul, according to the Times of India.

LOS ANGELES, (Variety.com) – “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” showed few signs of flagging over Christmas weekend, barreling past the $1 billion mark globally at a faster clip than any film in history.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – California Governor Jerry Brown yesterday pardoned “Iron Man” film star Robert Downey Jr.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – With Stormtroopers and lightsabers, Disney’s much-anticipated “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” made its debut with a star-studded premiere on Monday, and the attention was all on one man at the center of it all – creator George Lucas.

MUMBAI, (Reuters) – An Indian court today overturned Bollywood actor Salman Khan’s conviction in a 13-year-old hit-and-run case, scrapping a lower court’s sentence of five years in jail for running over a homeless man.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – The cast of the movie “Trumbo,” about the 1947 Hollywood blacklist, led the Screen Actors Guild Award nominations with three nods on Wednesday, including one for best ensemble, the guild’s top prize.

(Reuters) – Robert Loggia, the gravelly voiced character actor who danced with Tom Hanks on a giant floor keyboard in “Big,” fought aliens in “Independence Day” and trafficked in drugs in “Scarface,” died on Friday at age 85, his widow said.

(Reuters) – A former girlfriend of Charlie Sheen on Thursday sued the actor for assault, negligence and emotional distress, saying they had sex at least five times before he revealed he was HIV-positive.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Pamela Anderson is the last person to pose nude for Playboy magazine, closing a more than 60-year tradition that has seen women ranging from Madonna to Kim Kardashian and Cindy Crawford strip off for the glossy men’s publication.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – “May the Force be with you” vs.

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – U.S. singer and hip-hop star Chris Brown on Wednesday cancelled a tour to Australia and New Zealand, after earlier being refused a visa due to his domestic violence conviction against singer Rihanna in the United States.

(BBC) The bitter backlash against Bollywood star Amir Khan’s remarks about “growing intolerance” in India tells us a few things about the world’s largest democracy.

LOS ANGELES, (Variety.com) – Moviegoers said goodbye to Katniss Everdeen and welcomed back Rocky Balboa, a series of farewells and reunions that powered Thanksgiving box office receipts above last year’s holiday.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Oscar voters on Saturday gave honorary awards to three movie veterans, including director Spike Lee, at a gala event that shone a spotlight on Hollywood’s drive for diversity amid its glitzy awards season.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Music by rockers the Grateful Dead and Fleetwood Mac, jazz greats Miles Davis and Louis Armstrong and singers Blondie and Roberta Flack will be enshrined in the Grammy Hall of Fame, The Recording Academy said on Wednesday.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Nicole Kidman won the best actress award for her performance as a DNA researcher in the play “Photograph 51” at the London Evening Standard Theatre Awards on Sunday.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Her cutting words were written by William Shakespeare, but the withering stare the straight-talking Paulina focuses on co-star Kenneth Branagh’s insanely jealous King Leontes in a new production of “The Winter’s Tale” is pure Judi Dench.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – British singer Adele has broken the single-week U.S.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Lawyers for German automaker Porsche said actor Paul Walker was responsible for his own death in a crash of a Porsche sports car, in response to a wrongful death lawsuit filed by Walker’s daughter, court documents showed.