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Fashion from the Fall 2012 collection of Richard Chai is modeled on Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012 in New York.
NEW YORK Fashion designers, retailers, editors and stylists settled into their routines Thursday for eight days of previews at New York Fashion Week with barely a blink at all the photographers' flashes: a sign of business-as-usual stability.
FILE - In this July 15, 2011 file photo, Chris Brown performs on NBC's Today Show in New York. A Los Angeles judge said Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012, that Brown should remain on supervised probation until he finishes his community labor obligations, despite a request from the singer's attorney to relax his release terms due to his successful compliance with his sentence.
LOS ANGELES A judge says Chris Brown should remain on supervised probation despite doing well with the terms of his sentence in a case filed after he beat then-girlfriend Rihanna in 2009.
HELENA, Mont. Attorneys who accuse Greg Mortenson of defrauding readers in his best-selling "Three Cups of Tea" say his case is no different from that of James Frey, who admitted on the "Oprah Winfrey Show" that he lied in his memoir "A Million Little Pieces."
ALBANY, N.Y. Music mogul Russell Simmons wants New York's governor to pull the plug on milk from cows.
COLUMBUS, Ohio Celebrity zookeeper Jack Hanna criticized Ohio lawmakers Thursday for not yet passing a bill to regulate exotic animals, months after authorities shot dozens of lions, tigers, bears and other wild creatures let loose by their suicidal owner.
Christie Brinkley models Pamella Roland during the Heart Truth Red Dress fashion show in New York, Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2012.
NEW YORK Red is Christie Brinkley's color.
LAS VEGAS Rap music mogul Marion "Suge" Knight is facing a March court date in Las Vegas following his arrest on a 2009 traffic warrant and a new misdemeanor drug charge, authorities said Thursday.
The BCBGMAXAZRIA Fall 2012 collection is modeled during Fashion Week in New York, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012.
NEW YORK The bright sunny morning that started New York Fashion Week on Thursday didn't keep an evening shade from falling on the runway at BCBG Max Azria, the first major collection to give a glimpse of how fall style is shaping up.
In this photo made on Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2012, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra music director Manfred Honeck talks about the audition contest for soloists they will be holding on YouTube as he stands in front of the stage before a rehearsal at Heinz Hall in Pittsburgh. The orchestra will be selecting an instrumental soloist in part by having the public vote on video performance clips, and the winner gets $10,000 and a paid trip to perform with the orchestra at Heinz Hall this fall.
PITTSBURGH Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra officials insist it's not "American Idol" meets Mozart.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. "American Idol" winner Scotty McCreery, Brantley Gilbert and Hunter Hayes are The Academy of Country Music Awards' best new artist nominees.
FILE - In this Sunday, April 30, 2006 file photo, Bruce Springsteen performs during the 2006 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival in New Orleans. Springsteen has announced that two saxophonists, including Clarence Clemons' nephew, will join his upcoming world tour with the E Street Band. The announcement was made Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012, on Springsteen's website. Springsteen says longtime collaborator Eddie Manion will "share the saxophone role" with Jake Clemons.
NEW YORK It takes two men to replace The Big Man.
FILE - In this Saturday Feb. 21, 2009 file photo, Mexican singer Vicente Fernandez performs in Cali, Colombia. The Ranchera music giant told the Mexican station Televisa, Wednesday Feb. 8, 2012, that he will retire after tours of Latin America, Spain and the U.S., ending a four-decade career.
MEXICO CITY Ranchera music giant Vicente Fernandez says he will retire after tours of Latin America, Spain and the U.S., ending a four-decade career.
Model Jessica White attends amfAR's New York gala benefit at Cipriani Wall Street on Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2012 in New York.
NEW YORK A chance to kiss the buff, shirtless Richard Gere of the early '80s? Sold, for $20,000!
FILE - In this Jan. 10, 2012 file photo, actress Naomi Watts attends the National Board of Review awards gala at Cipriani 42nd Street in New York. Producers say Naomi Watts will play Princess Diana in a film about the last years of the royal's life. Britain's Ecosse Films says "Caught in Flight" will focus on the two years before Diana's death in a Paris car crash in August 1997. Filming will begin later this year.
LONDON Producers say Naomi Watts will play Princess Diana in a film about the last years of the royal's life.
Garrett popcorn employee Vanessa Torres left, holds an "Oscar" while fellow employee Scott Garza center, and Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences president Tom Sherak look before heading to Los Angeles for the Academy Awards ceremony, at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012.
LOS ANGELES Passengers on United Airlines Flight 531 from Chicago to Los Angeles didn't just get to travel with a world-famous celebrity, they had their picture taken with him.
In this photo released by the World Food Programme (WFP), rapper Curtis 50 Cent Jackson, center, visits children in the Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012. The rap star teamed up with WFP to fly to Dolo, Somalia on Wednesday and Nairobi, Kenya on Thursday and has committed to provide 1 billion meals for the hungry and donate to WFP 10 cents from every sale of a new energy drink that he is promoting, according to WFP.
NAIROBI, Kenya Rapper 50 Cent is teaming up with the World Food Program to see firsthand the effects of hunger in Somalia and Kenya.
JERSEY CITY, N.J. New Jersey's second largest city is rolling out the welcome mat for the women of the "Jersey Shore."
Michelle Stanistreet, General Secretary of the National Union of Journalists, (NUJ), center, arrives to testify at the final day of the first phase of the Leveson Inquiry, in central London, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012.Rupert Murdoch's News International has settled nearly all the cases against the company in the first wave of lawsuits for phone hacking by its journalists, with a new round of apologies and payouts announced Wednesday in a London court. But a potentially damaging claim lodged by British singer Charlotte Church is still headed to trial later this month and a wave of new lawsuits _ as many as 56 in all _ is looming, lawyers told London's High Court.
LONDON She squared off against former Beatle Paul McCartney in divorce court; on Thursday, Heather Mills took on Piers Morgan at Britain's media ethics inquiry.
FILE - In a Saturday, Dec. 10, 2011 file photo, Dan Auerbach, lead singer of The Black Keys, performs at Spike TV's Video Game Awards, in Culver City, Calif. The eclectic mix of The Black Keys, Skrillex and Mac Miller lead nominees for the 2012 mtvU Woodie Awards. The awards show will take place March 15 in Austin, Texas, during the South By Southwest Music Festival.
NEW YORK The eclectic mix of The Black Keys, Skrillex and Mac Miller lead nominees for the 2012 mtvU Woodie Awards.
Picture supplied by Christie's auctioneers , of Van Gogh's work Vue de l'asile et de la Chapelle de Saint-Remy, which sold for £10,121,250 (nearly $16 million) at a sale of paintings from Hollywood star Elizabeth Taylor's art collection Tuesday Feb. 7, 2012. Three paintings from the estate of the late star, by Van Gogh, Edgar Degas and Claude Pissarro fetched a combined £13,787,750 at the Christie's sale, more than double their pre-sale low estimate
LONDON Paintings, jewelry and fashions belonging to the late Elizabeth Taylor have sold for more than $183 million, with all of the more than 1,800 items on offer snapped up, Christie's auction house said Thursday.
Workers clear the red carpet of snow prior to the beginning of the 62 edition of International Film Festival Berlinale, in Berlin Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber
BERLIN A costume drama set during the French revolution and starring Diane Kruger as Marie Antoinette kicked off the annual Berlin film festival Thursday - the first of the year's major European film festivals.
ALEXANDRIA, Va. A Muslim convert from Brooklyn pleaded guilty Thursday to using a website he founded to post online threats against the creators of the "South Park" television show and others he deemed enemies of Islam.
CORRECTS PHOTO BYLINE TO PGJQR - In this photo released by the Quintana Roo state Attorney General's Office on Thursday Feb. 9, 2012, reality television producer Bruce Beresford-Redman left, stands next to an airplane while in custody of police upon his arrival at the airport in Cancun, Mexico early Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012. Beresford-Redman was extradited from the U.S. to await trial for charges of killing his wife in April 2010 while on vacation in Mexico.
CANCUN, Mexico Lawyers for a U.S. reality television producer facing trial for allegedly murdering his wife at a Mexican resort said Thursday they hope to persuade a judge to drop the charges and free their client.
Lerone Wilson, a Harlem artist who creates unique sculptural paintings with molten beeswax, listens during an interview, Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012 in New York.
NEW YORK A black skillet, a heat gun, pigments and beeswax take up a corner of LeRone Wilson's art studio in Harlem.
In this Jan. 27, 2012 photo, photographer Sebastien Micke, left, and assistant Russ Heller, photographs transgender model Andrej Pejic on a rooftop in New York. Transgender models have promoted the work of Marc Jacobs and Jean Paul Gaultier, but it’s a man with no plans for gender reassignment surgery who’s straddling the line like no other. Pejic, 20, says he’s perfectly happy being gender neutral. Some in the fashion industry see Pejic as a sign of a new gender fluidity.
NEW YORK On a chilly winter afternoon, Andrej Pejic settles into a Manhattan cafe with a cup of Earl Grey tea, sitting gracefully, long legs crossed. The blue-eyed fashion model gazes out a window, unaware that almost every man sitting at surrounding tables is transfixed.
CLEVELAND The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame says six additional groups will be inducted this year after a committee determined they should be recognized with previously enshrined original lead singers.
FILE - In this Jan. 11, 2011 file photo, actor Hugh Laurie arrives at the FOX 2011 Winter Press Tour party in Pasadena, Calif. Fox's medical drama "House" is ending its eight-year run this season. The show's producers, including Emmy-nominated star Hugh Laurie, said it was a "painful" decision but that the time had come to bring "House" to a close.
LOS ANGELES Fox's medical drama "House" is ending its eight-year run this season.
FILE - In this April 19, 2011 file photo, British actor Russell Brand and his wife Katy Perry arrive for the European premiere of "Arthur," in London. A judge signed off on the couple's divorce Wednesday, but the pair will have to wait until July 14 until they are legally single again. Financial details of the split are confidential.
LOS ANGELES A judge has granted Katy Perry and Russell Brand a divorce, although the pair won't be legally split up until July.
This is an undated handout photo issued by tBritain's Ministry of Defence on Wednesday Feb. 8, 2012 of Britain's Prince Harry as he prepares his Apache helicopter to go out on a mission in El Centro, California. Prince Harry was handed the prize of being the best co-pilot gunner on completing 18 months of rigorous training on the Apache Attack Helicopter.
LONDON Britain's defense ministry says Prince Harry has qualified as an Apache attack helicopter pilot, graduating as the best co-pilot gunner in his class after 18 months of training.
FILE - In this Dec. 5, 2011 file photo, musician Paul McCartney performs on stage during his "Good Evening Europe" European Tour, his first since 2004, at the O2 arena in London. McCartney will debut the songs from his new album "Kisses on the Bottom" in a free live streaming performance on iTunes. The performance takes place at 10 p.m. EST Thursday from Capitol Studios in Los Angeles where much of the new album was recorded. (AP Photo/Joel Ryan, file) EDITORIAL USE ONLY
NEW YORK Paul McCartney will debut the songs from his new album "Kisses on the Bottom" in a free live streaming performance on iTunes.
In this Thursday, Sept. 27, 2007 file photo, folk artist Howard Finster's World's Folk Art Church is shown at Paradise Gardens in Pennville, Ga. A northwest Georgia county has bought the garden where the folk artist held court for tourists and art lovers from around the world.
ATLANTA A northwest Georgia county has bought the garden where the late folk artist Howard Finster held court for tourists and art lovers from around the world.
McLEAN, Va. A Muslim convert from Brooklyn who ran a website that posted threats against the creators of the television show "South Park" is expected to enter a federal guilty plea, his attorney said Wednesday.
FILE - In this Sept. 11, 2011 file photo, Mike Love of the Beach Boys sings for a crowd of thousands during the Colorado Remembers 911 event at Civic Center Park in Denver. The Beach Boys are reuniting at The Grammys Awards for their first live performance in more than two decades. The original lineup of Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Al Jardine, Bruce Johnston and David Marks will be joined by Grammy nominees Foster the People and Maroon 5 in a special performance.
LOS ANGELES Get the sunglasses and tanning oil out: The Beach Boys are reuniting at The Grammys Awards for their first live performance in more than two decades.
FILE - In this Dec. 15, 2011 file photo, Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger smiles during a panel at the Governor's Conference on Extreme Climate Risks and California's Future at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco. Schwarzenegger will star opposite Sylvester Stallone in the action/thriller "The Tomb."
LOS ANGELES It's an action superstar reunion: Arnold Schwarzenegger is joining Sylvester Stallone for the thriller "The Tomb."
NEW YORK Against the apparent wishes of the author, a new Lemony Snicket series begins this fall.
FILE -- In a May 14, 2010 photo Roland Martin, wearing an ascot, adjusts his collar before a news segment in Washington. CNN suspended political analyst Martin on Wednesday Feb. 8, 2012 for "offensive" tweets during the Super Bowl
NEW YORK CNN suspended political analyst Roland Martin on Wednesday for "offensive" tweets during the Super Bowl that some critics said were anti-gay.
FILE - In this May 26, 2010 file photo, Bruce Beresford-Redman, the former "Survivor" producer, pauses for a photo at his home in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif. A spokesman for the ex-"Survivor" producer said Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2012, that Beresford-Redman is being returned to Cancun, where he is charged with aggravated homicide for his wife Monica's April 2010 death.
LOS ANGELES A reality television producer charged with killing his wife while on vacation in Mexico has been extradited from the U.S. to await trial, the next step in a legal saga that has played out on both sides of the border.
FILE - In this Feb. 4, 2005 file photo, model-actress Christie Brinkley models a dress by Calvin Klein at the 2005 Red Dress Collection fashion show in New York. Brinkley is set to return to the runway Wednesday night for the Red Dress Collection fashion show, an annual New York Fashion Week kickoff event that aims to draw attention to women's heart health by putting celebrity catwalkers in a parade of gowns by some of the country's most famous designers.
NEW YORK Red is Christie Brinkley's color.
FILE - This Sept. 10, 2006 file photo shows a very thin model on the runway at the Rosa Cha spring 2007 fashion show in New York. The Council of Fashion Designers of America hosted a panel discussion Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2012, which addressed the question of how thin is too thin.
NEW YORK Models are more than just pretty faces. They're often overworked, underfed and underage independent contractors with little say when things go bad behind the scenes.
FILE - In this Dec. 8, 2009 file photo, actor Gary Busey arrives at the premiere of the feature film "Crazy Heart" in Beverly Hills, Calif. Busey filed for bankruptcy Tuesday in Los Angeles, citing more than $500,000 in estimated debts.
LOS ANGELES Court records show Gary Busey has filed for bankruptcy and is listing more than $500,000 in estimated personal debts.
FILE - In this Feb. 15, 2009 file photo, a model falls down on the runway while modeling the fall 2009 collection of Herve Leger by Max Azria during Fashion Week in New York.
NEW YORK New York Fashion Week begins Thursday, and amid all those images of sleek models showing off the newest designer creations are sure to be a few pictures of something far less glamorous: Models falling down.
FILE - In this Nov. 8, 2011 file photo, Rodney Atkins, right, and his wife Tammy Jo arrive at the 59th Annual BMI Country Awards in Nashville. Atkins will not be prosecuted on a misdemeanor domestic assault charge if he continues to meet court-ordered conditions. Atkins was arrested last November at his home in Brentwood after his wife Tammy Jo Atkins told police he attacked her and tried to suffocate her with a pillow after a night of drinking. A Tennessee judge on Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2012, agreed to retire the charge, meaning it will be removed from Atkins' record if he stays out of trouble for 11 months and 29 days and completes 30 hours of community service.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. Country music singer Rodney Atkins will not be prosecuted on a misdemeanor domestic assault charge if he continues to meet court-ordered conditions.
This Tuesday, Feb. 7 2012 photo shows a photograph by Chinese artist Liu Xia during a preview of "The Silent Strength of Liu Xia" exhibit at The Italian Academy in New York. The photos were spirited out of China just before Liu was placed under house arrest after her husband, Liu Xiaobo, imprisoned in 2009 for urging democratic reform, won the Nobel. Her works are censored in her native country. The exhibition opens Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012.
NEW YORK Liu Xia is a forbidden artist whose work is censored in her native China. The photographer, who is under house arrest, uses life-like dolls as metaphors for the pain and suffering of the Chinese people.
MILAN Repeated statements by a former prima ballerina that anorexia is rampant at Milan's famed La Scala theater has startled the dance corps, which issued a statement Wednesday denying the eating disorder was an issue.
INDIANAPOLIS Country duo Sugarland resisted delaying the start of a concert last August at the Indiana State Fair despite threatening weather that later caused a deadly stage collapse, the fair's top official testified in a lawsuit against the company that built the stage rigging.
A woman takes a smartphone photo of a painting by British artist Lucian Freud entitled 'Self Portrait Refection 2002' at an exhibition of his paintings at the National Portrait Gallery in London, Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2012. The gallery is showing more than 100 paintings completed over 70 years, many of them nude studies of the artist's friends and family. Freud worked with the gallery on the exhibition for several years before his death in July 2011 at age 88.
LONDON There is a vast amount of flesh - clear and smooth or wrinkled and mottled - on display in the latest show at Britain's National Portrait Gallery, a retrospective of the work of Lucian Freud.
in this photo taken on Jan. 20, 2012 and released by China's Xinhua News Agency, senior Communist Party members pose for photos with performers and crew members of China Central Television's (CCTV's) Lunar New Year gala program during their rehearsal in Beijing. Chinese state broadcaster CCTV said Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2012, it is launching its American service this week as part of a major overseas expansion drive aimed at boosting China's international influence. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Zhang Duo) NO SALES
BEIJING Chinese state broadcaster CCTV is launching its American service this week as part of a major overseas expansion aimed at boosting China's international influence.
Taiwanese actress Shu Qi listens to questions during a media event in the lead up to the premiere of her new film entitled "Love" in Taipei, Taiwan, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2012. The romantic drama "Love" opens on Valentine's Day, Feb. 14, 2012.
TAIPEI, Taiwan Taiwan and China may be drawing ever closer after decades of estrangement, but a pair of star-crossed lovers from opposite sides of the Taiwan Strait encounter huge difficulties in communicating with each other in a new Taiwanese film.
In this image released by Universal Pictures, the character known as The Lorax, voiced by Danny DeVito, is shown in a scene from the animated film, "Dr. Seuss' The Lorax." Universal Pictures' “Dr. Seuss' The Lorax” is going green, and not only with green eggs and ham. The studio has lined up an impressive list of eco-friendly launch partners that includes for the first time the U.S. government's Environmental Protection Agency and Whole Foods Market. These partners and others are getting behind an animated movie, set for release March 2 in North America, about a creature who “speaks for the trees” and fights rampant industrialism in a retelling of a Dr. Seuss children's book first published in 1971.
LOS ANGELES The Lorax, perhaps the most famous anti-industrial crusader from children's literature, is getting support from companies that are willing to go green.
ANAHEIM, Calif. Disney officials say a new area called Cars Land will open in June at Disney's California Adventure in Anaheim.
