U.S. filmmaker Spike Lee said at the Cannes Film Festival in France that he is planning to make a documentary about basketball great Michael Jordan.Variety.com said Lee is hoping to have the NBA-financed film completed in time to bring it to next year's edition of the prestigious film festival.Mike wants to come to Cannes, so hopefully we will be here next year, Lee said. Lee's 40 Acres & a Mule ...

Troubled British soul singer Amy Winehouse is to perform ahead of U.S. rapper Jay-Z at next month's Glastonbury music festival, organizers said. Winehouse, who has been in the headlines for the past year due to her erratic behavior, battles with drug addiction and brushes with the law, is to perform directly before Jay-Z on the featival's Pyramid stage June 28, the BBC said.I have total faith, I ...

Kristi Yamaguchi and her professional dance partner Mark Ballas were declared the winners of the U.S. dance competition Dancing with the Stars Tuesday night.Yamaguchi and Ballas beat out their fellow finalists Jason Taylor and Edyta Sliwinska for the honor in the show's Season 6 finale. Yamaguchi, an Olympic gold medal-winning figure skater, is the first female celebrity to win the coveted ...

A New York college student and model reportedly is suing actress Lindsay Lohan for allegedly taking her $11,000 mink jacket from a Manhattan nightclub.The New York Post said Maria Masha Markova, a student at Columbia University, has filed a civil lawsuit in Manhattan Supreme Court, claiming Lohan took her jacket without claim of authority, privilege or right this year at a private party at a ...

Ben Barnes says he was invited to audition for Prince Caspian after someone in the film's casting department saw him on stage in The History Boys in London.It kind of came out of left field a little bit. I was doing a play in London. 'The History Boys,' the British actor recently told reporters in New York. "And somebody from the casting department came to see the show and asked if I wanted to ...

Hollywood actor Jake Gyllenhaal reportedly has signed on to star in the big-screen adaptation of the Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time video game.Mike Newell is directing the action fantasy adventure, which is set in 6th century Persia and will co-star British actress Gemma Arterton, The Hollywood Reporter said. Jerry Bruckheimer is producing the movie, which is to start shooting in July, the ...

The roof of the Berlin Philharmonic was badly damaged, but no injuries were reported when a fire broke out in the famed concert hall Tuesday afternoon.Deutsche Welle said it was not immediately clear what caused the blaze, which occurred during a lunchtime concert. The audience was evacuated without incident.More than 100 firefighters spent most of the afternoon battling the flames.Members of ...

A rape victim, claiming an inability to miss work, was excused from serving on the jury for R. Kelly's child pornography trial in Chicago.The Chicago Tribune said the juror was removed from the panel Tuesday morning after telling the judge having to spend time away from work without pay would be a financial hardship. The trial is expected to last several weeks.Judge Vincent Gaughan replaced the ...

A representative for Jessica Alba says the Hollywood actress has wed her beau Cash Warren. Alba's spokesman Brad Cafarelli told People magazine the couple, who is expecting a baby together this summer, married quietly Monday. Alba and Warren reportedly met on the set of The Fantastic Four, where Alba was one of the action movie's stars and Warren was a director's assistant.They have been dating ...

A rape victim was excused from serving on the jury for R. Kelly's child pornography trial in Chicago after claiming they couldn't afford to miss work.The Chicago Tribune said the juror was removed from the panel Tuesday morning after calling the judge to say their employer wouldn't pay for the time away from work during the trial, making it tough for the juror to pay their mortgage. The trial is ...