Eileen Ford, whose Ford Models agency grew into an international powerhouse and fostered the careers of a plethora of super models including Naomi Campbell, has died. She was 92.
She died Wednesday night, a spokeswoman for Ford Models told Agence France Presse.

Beyonce and Jay Z will co-star in an HBO concert special, and Queen Latifah will play legendary blues singer Bessie Smith in a movie for the network.
The music special will feature the married couple on their "On the Run Tour" performing in Paris. It will tape Sept. 12 and 13 at the Stade de France, featuring the superstars performing more than 40 songs, the network announced. It will air in September.

A French court rejected a case brought against Scarlett Johansson by an author who accused the Hollywood star of slander after she called him a "pervert", according to a written decision seen by Agence France Presse Thursday.
This is the second ruling made over the past eight days involving the actress and Gregoire Delacourt, whose book "The First Thing We Look At" tells the story of a Johansson look-a-like who is treated as a sex object but finds love with a mechanic who resembles "a better version" of Canadian actor Ryan Gosling.

"Iron Man" star Robert Downey Jr. and his wife Susan are expecting a baby girl.
The actor, 49, tweeted the news today.

Emma Watson has been made a U.N. Women Goodwill Ambassador.
The actress, 24, joins the United Nations organisation, which is dedicated to furthering gender equality.

Mega-hit TV fantasy series "Game of Thrones" topped nominations announced Thursday for the Primetime Emmy awards, television's version of the Oscars.
The grisly royal families feud saga scored 19 nods including for best drama series, followed by "Fargo" with nominations in 18 categories including two for lead actor in a miniseries.

Eva Mendes is pregnant!
The 40-year-old actress and her man Ryan Gosling are expecting their first child together, according to multiple reports. This will be the first child for both Mendes and the 33-year-old hunk, who first started dating back in September 2011.

Squeezed in between auto parts shops and cafes off the crowded avenues of downtown Cairo, no blaring marquee announces this cinema. Instead look for a small blue doorway, marked by a discrete neon calligraphy sign and sometimes an old Peugeot parked across the street playing films projected onto its windshield.
The car once belonged to the late Youssef Chahine, Egypt's most lauded movie director, who in a career that spanned six decades made films with a social conscience that challenged censors and broke with the dominant big-studio system.

Some jazz fans are devoted to the very end.
At The Woodlawn Cemetery in New York City, so many jazz enthusiasts want to be buried near the graves of such greats as Miles Davis and Duke Ellington that the cemetery is developing new plots to meet the demand.

She says her life is a lot calmer since she married fashionista-rapper Kanye West. And she prefers to stay at home with her baby.
But calm did not prevail Wednesday when Kim Kardashian, in a whistle-stop 24-hour visit to Paris, faced the incandescent lights of Valentino's couture show in a plunging ice blue gown that caused photographers to trip over themselves.
