Cooke Optics is receiving the award "for their continuing innovation in the design, development and manufacture of advanced camera lenses.

Julia Roberts and Mark Ruffalo will star in an HBO movie adaptation of "The Normal Heart," the play about the onset of the AIDS crisis in New York City.

New business has been muted at the end of a five-day slot for deal-making and industry shmoozing intended to make the Venice festival more commercially attractive.

The Rolling Stones are set to play a series of four 50th anniversary concerts this coming November in New York and London.

Film director and producer Sam Raimi, for the first time in a long career of spooking audiences with his horror films, has turned to real-life events for supernatural thriller "The Possession," now in U.S. movie theaters.

The Venice Film Festival is focusing on its artistic roots this year, courting celebrated directors and not flashy Hollywood blockbusters.

The actor wrote on his Twitter account this week that his father wanted to take him to Kashmir because his mother was from there.

If Chicago is the Windy City, then few blew there with as much impact as Von Freeman. The tenor saxophonist died August 11 at the Kindred Chicago Lakeshore Center just two months shy of his 89th birthday.

Just 22, Isaac Hernandez already had performed from Havana to Moscow to Jackson, Mississippi, not to mention four years as a professional with the San Francisco Ballet.

Talk show host Ricki Lake, changed by marriage, children, divorce and remarriage, returns to the daytime arena with "The Ricki Lake Show."