Ellen Page, the fresh-faced star of the 2007 sleeper hit "Juno," declared at a press conference late Friday that she is gay.

"I'm here today because I am gay," Page, 26, said at an event for homosexual teens in Las Vegas hosted by the Human Rights Campaign, a pro-gay rights group.

Indian filmmaker Onir knows what it's like to be Bollywood's only openly gay director.

The man behind the critically-acclaimed "My Brother... Nikhil" has been insulted live on television and regularly receives abusive mails but says it's still better than being "invisible".

Richard Linklater's coming-of-age tale "Boyhood" seemed the odds-on favorite to capture the Golden Bear top prize at the Berlin film festival Saturday, but dramas from Northern Ireland and Germany were hot on its heels.

Critics and audiences swooned over Linklater's latest picture, a moving, leisurely paced story made over a 12-year period with the same actors including Ethan Hawke, Patricia Arquette and the director's own daughter Lorelei.

Simon Cowell is a proud new father.

A spokeswoman for Cowell says he and socialite Lauren Silverman welcomed their baby son early Friday evening, in New York.

U.S. actress Meryl Streep, nominated for her 18th Oscar for "August: Osage County", on Friday said she was "very grateful" to be in the running despite having won three times.

Streep stars in the black comedy drama along with Julia Roberts as the "toxic" and strong-willed Violet Weston who gathers her family together after the death of her husband.

The first lady of the United States shunned on Friday rumors about marital problems at the White House by wishing her husband of 21 years a Happy Valentine's Day on Instagram.

"Hey Barack, I'll always be you valentine!” Michelle Obama captioned a picture collage of the couple she posted on Instagram, adding the hashtag #HappyValentinesDay and her signature – mo – to it.

French police have opened a probe into a complaint from actress Julie Gayet, whose affair with President Francois Hollande made global headlines, of "endangerment" by the paparazzi, a judicial source said Friday.

The source said the complaint for "endangering the lives of others" had been taken up by Paris prosecutors, but provided no other details.

On the walls of Jimmy Fallon's office are photos. Lots of photos. Of his 2007 marriage to film producer Nancy Juvonen. Of their 6-month-old daughter, Winnie. Of his mom and dad as newlyweds. Fallon points them all out to a visitor proudly.

But the dominant photo is a portrait of Johnny Carson, aglow in front of his "Tonight Show" drapes.

Among the hundreds of designers who flocked to New York Fashion Week, Australians are a growing force to be reckoned with as they launch brands onto a global market.

At the forefront are sisters Nicky and Simone Zimmermann, who founded their swimwear and ready-to-wear line in Sydney in 1991 and on their second runway season in the Big Apple.

Stephen King announced Thursday a second novel to hit bookstores this year, a tale of God and the Devil that starts in a small New England town in the mid-20th century.

On his website, the best-selling American suspense novelist said "Revival" would be published on November 11 by U.S. publisher Scribner and Britain's Hodder and Stoughton.