Entertainment

Sandra Bullock has canceled her appearance at the London premiere of "The Blind Side" almost two weeks after winning a Best Actress Academy Award for her performance in the movie.

Break out the briefs and red cape, if you dare. More tales of "Captain Underpants" are coming.

An author and journalist who resigned last month from the Internet news site The Daily Beast over allegations of lifting material acknowledged that passages in his latest book are similar to those of another writer.

Mariah Miller had already tried on - and rejected - dresses in Electric Blue, Lemon Drop, Purple Passion and Shimmer Moss, colors created to inflame the imagination of 16-year-old prom girls like her. By the time she arrived at Trudys formalwear store in Campbell, Calif., on Saturday, Miller and her four-woman prom posse had trudged through the changing rooms of prom shops in Walnut Creek, Concord and San Jose the previous weekend.

PASADENA, Calif. - "My American pathology trilogy," Greg Critser calls it: "Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World" (2003), "Generation Rx: How Prescription Drugs Are Altering American Lives, Minds, and Bodies" (2005) and the just-released "Eternity Soup: Inside the Quest to End Aging."

Donny and Marie Osmond are canceling their shows this week at the Flamingo Las Vegas hotel while she copes with the death of her son.

Donald Trump isn't firing "The Celebrity Apprentice," but he's bringing back the regular edition of the show with 14 ordinary job-hunters plagued by the economic crisis.

Author-scholar Kwame Anthony Appiah has been elected to a second one-year term as president of the PEN American Center.

A state-run TV channel is stirring controversy with a documentary about a fake game show in which credulous participants obey orders to deliver increasingly powerful electric shocks to a man, who is really an actor, until he appears to die.

A resolution honoring entertainment mogul Tyler Perry, scheduled to be proclaimed Wednesday by the Georgia state Senate, has been postponed.