Music fans are heading west in their thousands this weekend for the first ever Westport Festival of Music and Performing Arts.

Nicole Kidman plays an “oversexed Barbie doll” in the hard-hitting murder drama The Paperboy, which premiered at the Cannes film festival yesterday.

CHRISTINA Aguilera set social networks buzzing when she fluffed a line as she belted out the national anthem at the start of the US Super Bowl.

Christina Aguilera set social networks buzzing when she fluffed a line as she belted out the national anthem at the start of the US Super Bowl.

R&B star Rihanna is setting her sights on a foray into acting in a bid to expand her international appeal.

Actor Hugh Laurie's celebrity band has scored a big hit as a download on iTunes - with Cab Calloway classic 'Minnie The Moocher'.

Actor Morgan Freeman led a star-studded benefit concert for hurricane victims last night, telling a national television audience that the state he calls home “will rise again” from the ruins of the storm’s destruction.

The Desperate Housewive of Wisteria Lane added some sparkle to the Emmy Awards, with Marcia Cross, Eva Longoria, Felicity Huffman, Teri Hatcher and Nicollette Sheridan stealing the show in stunning floor-length gowns.

Macy Gray has travelled from her Los Angeles home to provide hands-on help to the victims of Hurricane Katrina.

American singer Macy Gray has fulfilled her pledge to perform nude - by stripping during her London concert on Monday night.

Singer Macy Gray has promised to perform naked to raise money for for the Elton John AIDS Foundation.

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s five-minute cameo as an egocentric, polygamist prince in Disney’s Around the World in 80 Days has fellow actors applauding his willingness to mock his Hollywood image.

Simon Cowell crowned the new American Idol Fantasia Barrino as the best idol contestant ever, including the UK Pop Idol originals Will Young and Michelle McManus.

David Bowie is delighted that Macy Gray has agreed to be his opening act for the North American leg of the seven-month concert tour he will embark on in October.

Thousands of music lovers were today gearing up for the start of the Glastonbury Festival.

Macy Gray, the R&B diva, is touring Britain and speaking her mind to the press.

Fans who have forked out more than £100 (€139.24) for Glastonbury Festival tickets finally learned what they had paid for today – including David Gray, Manic Street Preachers and Sugababes.

Soul star Macy Gray is to help create a cartoon series about her childhood, it was reported today.

Bono, Joe Strummer and Dave Stewart have written a song in tribute to Nelson Mandela.

U2’s Bono has teamed up with former Clash frontman Joe Strummer to write a tribute song to Nelson Mandela to be played at a huge Aids fundraiser, it was announced today.

Oasis, Blur and the Manic Street Preachers are among the artists battling it out to be the first heard on a new BBC radio station.

Sony has made a loss of £74.7m for the quarter ended last month.

Virgin Radio have banned chart-topping acts such as All Saints and Ronan Keating - because they are too young.