Disgraced TV legend Bill Cosby has tweeted his thanks to his 4.1 million followers, as he braces for more legal battles after being charged this week with felony sex assault. 

"Friends and fans, Thank You," read the New Year's Eve Twitter message posted by the fallen comedy icon -- his first public comments since appearing in a Pennsylvania court on Wednesday to hear the charge, one of dozens of sex abuse claims against him.

"Star Wars" creator George Lucas apologized Thursday for an interview in which he criticized the latest film and referred to Disney, which bought the rights to the blockbuster franchise, as "white slavers."

In the interview with journalist Charlie Rose, part of which aired in November but which was broadcast in full last week, Lucas appears upset at what Disney -- which paid $4 billion for Lucasfilm in 2012 -- did with "The Force Awakens."

A celebrity's fall from grace is always ugly, but that of Bill Cosby -- a once-beloved comedian who broke barriers by bringing a black TV family into white living rooms -- is a true gut punch to America.

The very name Cosby evokes so, so much -- a father figure for African-American families, a seemingly model citizen and comic with a gentle, self-deprecating style and playful voice that would go from deep to screeching in search of a laugh.

Guns N' Roses, who became one of the top-selling bands in history despite a brief heyday, will reunite for the Coachella festival in 2016, music magazine Billboard reported.

The concert would be the first time that the famously fractious band would play with its original lineup of singer Axl Rose and guitarist Slash since the "Use Your Illusion" tour ended in July 1993 in Buenos Aires.

U.S. comedian Bill Cosby appeared in a Pennsylvania court on Wednesday to face a sexual assault charge over a 2004 incident -- the first criminal charge filed against him after dozens of women claimed abuse.

"Mr Cosby is charged with aggravated indecent assault. This is a felony," Kevin Steele, a county assistant district attorney, told reporters in Norristown, outside Philadelphia.

U.S. comic Bill Cosby has been charged with sexual assault in Pennsylvania over an incident that took place in 2004, a prosecutor said Wednesday -- the first criminal charges filed against the actor after dozens of women claimed abuse.

"Mr Cosby is charged with aggravated indecent assault. This is a felony," Kevin Steele, assistant district attorney for the state's Montgomery County, told reporters in Norristown, in the suburbs of Philadelphia.

Austrian filmmaker Michael Haneke, two-time winner of the Palme d'Or at Cannes, will soon begin shooting a movie touching on the migrants issue around the northern French port of Calais, local officials said Wednesday.

Haneke and his team scouted the area in recent weeks with a view to start filming "Happy End" in early 2016, said Pictanovo, a group that organizes financing for films in the region.

The costumes were stunning. The manor house was sublime. And the "Downton Abbey" cast members made the most of their characters.

But it was the smart dialogue crafted by Julian Fellowes, who wrote every episode, that put the drama in a TV class of its own. The sixth and final season begins Sunday on PBS' "Masterpiece" (9 p.m. EST).

Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister, the hell-raising frontman of iconic British heavy metal band Motorhead, has died aged 70 of a sudden, aggressive cancer, the group said Tuesday.

The gravel-voiced veteran, one of rock and roll's great survivors despite a hard-partying lifestyle, was diagnosed with cancer on Saturday -- two days after his 70th birthday -- and died on Monday.

"Star Wars: The Force Awakens" continued its box office domination on North American screens, adding to earnings that already have shattered records, industry figures showed Sunday.

The latest "Star Wars" space epic surpassed the $1 billion mark in global box office sales in record time, Disney announced Sunday, as fans of the space epic packed theaters around the world.