DETROIT (AP) - The star of "Home Improvement" and the "Toy Story" movies is becoming a pitchman for Chevrolet.

General Motors Co. says Tim Allen will be a spokesman for the brand and will star in a series of TV ads for the 2011 Chevrolet Cruze that begin airing on Tuesday.

Allen, ...

LONDON (AP) - Yoko Ono says John Lennon is still helping her in her endeavours as an artist and peace activist as she pays tribute to her late husband before what would have been his 70th birthday.

Ono visited Lennon's childhood home and school in northern England's Liverpool on Friday. She ...

VENICE, ITALY (AP) - John Woo built his reputation with stylish Hong Kong action thrillers, then moved to Hollywood where he directed such big-budget blockbusters as "Mission Impossible II."

The director is now preparing for a third phase of his career.

"I would like to be a bridge between the good things ...

VENICE, ITALY (AP) - Sofia Coppola gives audiences an insider's look into two worlds she knows intimately in her latest film: hotels and Hollywood.

"Somewhere," which made its world premiere Friday at the Venice Film Festival, is the story of a movie star, played by Stephen Dorff, who comes to see ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Ne-Yo says T.I. has had many chances _ and it's time he gets his act together.

Ne-Yo told the Associated Press the fellow performer makes a lot of poor decisions when it comes to the people that he surrounds himself with.

T.I., who is on three years' probation, ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Ne-Yo says T.I. has had many chances _ and it's time he gets his act together.

After T.I. was arrested in a drug case, Ne-Yo called him one of the smartest people in the music industry.

"I just feel that he makes a lot of poor decisions when ...

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NASHVILLE, TENN. (AP) - The first song Brooks & Dunn ever sang together has become their last.

The country music duo closed out a 20-year career at Nashville's Bridgestone Arena on Thursday night with their 1991 debut single, "Brand New Man," during the encore.

The sold-out show was the final stop on ...

NEW YORK (AP) - Brendan Fraser and Denis O'Hare will star in the comedy "Elling."

Producers announced Thursday the casting for "Elling," which will arrive on Broadway in November. It will begin performances at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on Nov. 2 and open Nov. 21.

"Elling," adapted for the English stage by ...

MIAMI (AP) - Paris Hilton may owe investors in her 2006 movie "Pledge This!" about $160,000 for failing to do enough promotion.

U.S. District Judge Federico Moreno in Miami ruled Thursday that the 29-year-old celebrity socialite didn't live up to her contract when refusing interviews with publications in Russia and the ...

CHICAGO (AP) - The first week of the final season of "The Oprah Winfrey Show" will include a selection for Oprah's Book Club.

A Harpo spokeswoman said Thursday that Winfrey will announce her 64th and latest pick during a live episode airing on Sept. 17. That would be 14 years to ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - "American Idol" is expanding the talent search for its next season with an audition in Los Angeles later this month.

The hit Fox TV singing contest had announced tryouts in six cities, wrapping in San Francisco in August.

An "American Idol" producer said Thursday the Los Angeles audition ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - An appeals court has scheduled a hearing for lawyers for the father of Michael Jackson to argue that he deserves a role in decisions involving his son's multimillion dollar estate.

The Second District Court of Appeal said Thursday the appeal by Joe Jackson would be heard on ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - A federal jury weighing whether a Mexican-born actress committed marriage fraud has ended a second day of deliberations without reaching any verdicts and has expressed discord in its ranks.

The jury weighing whether to convict Fernanda Romero and her U.S-born husband reported that one of its members ...

FORT BRAGG, CALIF. (AP) - Cammie King Conlon, the former child actress who portrayed the doomed daughter of Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara in "Gone With the Wind," has died at the age of 76.

She died of lung cancer Wednesday morning at her Fort Bragg home on California's north coast, ...

NEW YORK (AP) - Rap and rock will collide once again _ this time in a video game.

Fans of the hit game "Rock Band" will get a chance to jam to some hip-hop, thanks to Snoop Dogg.

He's the first rap artist to be featured in the video game, which already ...

TOKYO (AP) - Japanese fishermen herded dolphins into a cove made famous by an Oscar-winning documentary about the hunt but did not kill any Friday, as conservationist groups ramped up scrutiny of the annual slaughter.

An official in the seaside village of Taiji, depicted in the film "The Cove," said a ...

SYDNEY (AP) - Actor Paul Hogan, star of the "Crocodile Dundee" movie trilogy, has been cleared to return home to the United States after he was barred last month from leaving Australia because of a disputed tax bill, his lawyer said Friday.

The 70-year-old Australian-born actor, who currently lives in Los ...

NEW YORK (AP) - The former television producer who tried to blackmail David Letterman was freed Thursday after four months in jail for a plot that put a spotlight on the comic icon's office affairs, city Correction Department records show.

Robert "Joe" Halderman got time off for good behavior from his ...

SYDNEY (AP) - A French skyscraper climber nicknamed "Spider-Man" pleaded not guilty Friday to charges related to his bare-handed climb up a 57-story building in downtown Sydney.

Alain Robert, known for climbing some of the world's tallest and best-known buildings without ropes or other equipment, was arrested Monday at the top ...