An average of 10,000 people a year send letters to the Italian city of Verona, asking romantic advice of Shakespeare’s tragic teenage girl, the personification of young love, says Richard Fitzpatrick

Whitney Houston's estate contains a pair of Ginger Rogers' dancing shoes personally signed by the screen icon.

YOU MAY have never heard of her, but she’s won more Oscars than any other woman in the history of Hollywood — a total of eight, with 35 nominations.

The Hollywood sign has been spared from urban sprawl and will stand unobscured to welcome future actors, writers and Austrian bodybuilders, California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger said.

City leaders and environmentalists in Los Angeles who fear a new development will spoil the iconic view of the Hollywood sign are battling to raise $6m to save the famous scene.

Temperamental supermodel Naomi Campbell was disciplined by Hollywood legend Douglas Fairbanks Jr after throwing a tantrum at a London celebrity party 10 years ago.

Ann Miller, the raven-haired, long-legged actress and dancer whose machine-gun taps won her stardom during the golden age of movie musicals, has died. She was 81.

R&B star Beyonce turned girl power into staying power when she fended off a challenge from the Queen of pop to the top of the UK charts.

Boy George has removed a joke about Madonna from his '80s musical.