LOS ANGELES (AP) - George Clooney's hitman tale "The American" has captured the top spot at the box office with a $16.4 million debut over the long Labor Day weekend.

Since opening Wednesday, the Focus Features release has taken in $19.5 million.

The 20th Century Fox revenge romp "Machete" and Sony's heist ...

NASSAU, Bahamas (AP) — A judge in the Bahamas dismissed charges Monday against two people accused of trying to extort money from actor John Travolta after the prosecutor said Mr. Travolta no longer wanted to pursue a case stemming from the death of his teenage son.

Prosecutor Neil Braithwaite submitted a motion ...

NASSAU, BAHAMAS (AP) - A judge in the Bahamas dismissed charges Monday against two people accused of trying to extort money from John Travolta after the actor decided he no longer wanted to face the pain of a new trial stemming from the death of his teenage son on the ...

THONOTOSASSA, FLA. (AP) - Authorities say former WWE wrestler Jim "The Anvil" Neidhart has been arrested on drug charges in Florida.

A Hillsborough County Sheriff's arrest report says the 55-year-old was arrested Sunday. The report says Neidhart was yelling outside a gas station yelling and was seen swallowing several pills.

The report ...

LONDON (AP) - Tony Blair on Monday canceled a planned public appearance in London to promote his new memoir over concerns about potential disruption from protesters.

The former British prime minister said he didn't "want the public to be inconvenienced by the inevitable hassle caused by protesters," during his appearance on ...

LONDON (AP) - Police in southwestern England say a former member of the Electric Light Orchestra was killed in a freak collision with a huge hay bale that rolled down a steep hill.

The victim was identified on Monday as 62-year-old Mike Edwards, who played cello in the British rock band ...

LONDON (AP) - Model Jerry Hall plans to auction some of her art collection next month, including a famous portrait by Lucian Freud that shows her nude when she was eight months pregnant, Sotheby's said Monday.

The auction will also include works by Andy Warhol, Damien Hirst, David Bailey and other ...

THE HAGUE, NETHERLANDS (AP) - A museum dedicated to the works of an influential European art movement says the group's last surviving Dutch member, Corneille, has died at age 88.

The Cobra Museum says Corneille, whose full name was Guillaume Cornelis Beverloo, died Sunday in Paris.

He was part of a small ...

LONDON (AP) - Tony Blair said Monday that he might cancel a planned public appearance in London to promote his new memoir because of potential disruption from protesters.

The former British prime minister told ITV television that a bookstore signing session could cause unnecessary "hassle and cost" for police. Protesters demonstrating ...

NEW YORK (AP) - The most Earth-shattering event in Brazil this weekend took place in New York, where singer Ivete Sangalo played a sold out show at Madison Square Garden. Too bad, few Americans even noticed.

A superstar in her native Brazil, where she can pack a 70,000-capacity soccer stadium and ...

VENICE, ITALY (AP) - "Post Mortem," a film by Chilean director Pablo Larrain, recreates the autopsy of Chilean President Salvador Allende during the 1973 coup.

In the film, the autopsy is depicted in chilling scientific detail, in the presence of military representatives. Even the blown out skull of the late Marxist ...

VENICE, ITALY (AP) - French director Francois Ozon's says he was inspired to go ahead with his latest film, a battle-of-the-sexes comedy, after the presidential election pitting Nicolas Sarkozy against Segolene Royale.

"I realized there was a new era of machoism," the director told reporters before the premiere of "Potiche" Saturday ...

VENICE, ITALY (AP) - Lost wandering in the Oregon desert for five weeks when the journey should have taken two, low on water, food and patience, a young emigrant played by Michelle Williams says of the group's ego-driven guide: "Is he ignorant, or just plain evil? That's my quandary."

Williams' character, ...

NEW YORK (AP) - Hip-hop star Kanye West is still feeling the pain over his ambush of Taylor Swift last year _ and he's expressing his pain all over Twitter.

West unleashed a torrent of emotions on his official Twitter account Saturday, acknowledging once again that he was wrong for jumping ...

VENICE, ITALY (AP) - Actress Maggie Cheung, in Venice on Saturday to promote a new film, said one reason she has pulled back from acting for now is the industry's focus on youthful beauty.

Cheung has a brief role in Isaac Julien's "Better Life," an experimental film that is also a ...

VENICE, ITALY (AP) - There's never been a road trip quite like this in cinematic history.

Russian director Aleksei Fedorchenko's poetic new movie "Silent Souls" tells the story of a Russian factory manager's tender farewell to his departed wife, using the rituals of the Merja people, ancient inhabitants of the Volga ...

NEW YORK (AP) - Hip-hop star Kanye West is still feeling the pain over his ambush of Taylor Swift last year _ and he's expressing his pain all over Twitter.

West unleashed a torrent of emotions on his official Twitter account Saturday, acknowledging once again that he was wrong for jumping ...

HAVANA (AP) - What would you do if your entire city was taken over by flesh-eating zombies and communist leaders insisted it was nothing but a plot by U.S-backed dissidents to destabilize the government?

If you were the protagonist of Juan de los Muertos _ "Juan of the Dead" _ the ...

HAVANA (AP) - What would you do if your entire city was taken over by flesh-eating zombies and communist leaders insisted it was nothing but a plot by U.S-backed dissidents to destabilize the government?

If you were the protagonist of Juan de los Muertos _ "Juan of the Dead" _ the ...

PHOENIX (AP) - Standup comic Robert Schimmel, a frequent guest on Howard Stern's radio show, has died after suffering serious injuries in a car accident. He was 60.

Schimmel's spokesman, Howard Bragman, said Schimmel died Friday evening in a Phoenix hospital.

Schimmel was a passenger Aug. 26 in a car driven by ...