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The Glastonbury Festival -- the biggest of its kind in Europe -- is set to return after organisers convinced local authorities about new safety measures.

Awards season has begun. The Grammy nominations were announced Friday; the American Film Institute followed Saturday by handing out their first annual awards. They'll be followed by the American Music Awards, the Golden Globes, the Directors Guild nominations, the Screen Actors Guild nominations, and -- on February 12 -- the Oscar nominations.

Australians are basking in Golden Globe glory after they picked up five major awards at the Beverly Hills ceremony.

Legendary guitarist Eric Clapton married his 25-year-old American girlfriend in a private ceremony on New Year's Day, the presiding priest has said.

Hollywood couple Tom Cruise and Penelope Cruz spent an hour chatting to fans outside the UK premiere of the movie which brought them together.

Actress Kim Delaney, who once played a police detective on television, is on the other side of the law after she was arrested Saturday night for drunken driving.

Following is a list of the nominees for the 8th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards:

The British manufactured pop group Hear'Say are hunting for a new face after Kym Marsh quit blaming rows with other group members.

Here are the winners of the American Film Institute Awards for film and television presented Saturday:

You have the highbrow New York and L.A. film critics awards, the comparatively lowbrow People's Choice Awards, the inside-Hollywood Oscars and the enigmatic Golden Globes.

CNN film reviewer Paul Clinton spoke with actress Nicole Kidman at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival to discuss her new romance thriller Birthday Girl, co-starring Ben Chaplin.

Spanish writer Camilo Jose Cela, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1989, has died at the age of 85.

Eileen Heckart, the lanky, gravel-voiced actress whose skill with comedy and drama won her an Oscar for Butterflies Are Free, three Emmys and a special Tony for career excellence, has died. She was 82.

A tearful Luciano Pavarotti has led hundreds of mourners at the funeral of his mother in the northern Italian city of Modena.

Tenor Luciano Pavarotti made an emotional return to London's Royal Opera House, dedicating the rare performance to his mother who died in Italy just the day before.

The world's most famous tenor Luciano Pavarotti will perform in London at a sell-out concert 24 hours after his mother's death.

Rockers Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale are getting married.

ER isn't the only doctor show that star Noah Wyle watches. He thinks Scrubs is very funny.

Life is making rocker Steven Tyler pinch himself these days.

After portraying the villain in The Patriot and menacing a group of soldiers as a ranger captain in Black Hawk Down, Jason Isaacs is ready to take on Harry Potter, Variety reports.

Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld took a break from his real-life war duties Tuesday night to attend the Washington premiere of Black Hawk Down, the fictional re-creation of a deadly U.S. firefight in Somalia.

The emergence of New Line's The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring as an Oscar contender couldn't have been more of a surprise to Fran Walsh, Peter Jackson's partner both on the trilogy and in the New Zealand house they share with their two young children. The clan's feeling the pressure of sudden fame, even so far removed from Hollywood, Variety reports.

Actress Jennifer Connelly has been getting the best reviews of her career for her work as a long-suffering wife in Ron Howard's A Beautiful Mind.

Comedian Jamie Foxx says dramatic roles like Drew Bundini Brown in the new film Ali give him more opportunity to prove his acting skills.

Steven Spielberg has decided to produce rather than direct Memoirs of a Geisha, a project he has been eyeing for four years, a source reported to Variety late Monday.

Pop star Janet Jackson, whose current North American tour got off to a rocky start last summer, said Tuesday she may retire from the road after the jaunt ends next month because of the exhaustion.

HOLLYWOOD, California (Reuters) -- TV scribe D.C. Fontana, best known for writing for various Star Trek projects, has been tapped by the Writers Guild of America West to receive this year's Morgan Cox Award for service to the union, Variety reports.

HOLLYWOOD, California (Reuters) -- Tom Cruise and director Steven Spielberg, who have just finished shooting the sci-fi thriller Minority Report, will reunite for the WWII picture Ghost Soldiers, Variety reports.

Cynthia Nixon, who plays the expectant Miranda in cable television's Sex and the City, tells TV Guide in its February 2 edition that although neither she nor her character wear wedding rings, marriage is still something on the minds of women.

Already the mother of a 9-year-old son, Meg Ryan says she'd definitely like to have more children.

The classic Sidney Sheldon-created TV series I Dream of Jeannie is being conjured up as a stage musical eyeing a Broadway run, Variety reports.

When asked to describe herself in one word, Macy Gray says she's impossible.

Breckin Meyer says he's probably the first guy to ask Meg Ryan, 'Turn around. I don't want to look at you anymore.'

Actor and director Robert Redford insists he'll keep his wrinkles.

The family that plays together stays together. That's apparently true in Hollywood as well.

Backstreet Boy Nick Carter said he was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time when he was arrested at a Tampa, Florida, nightclub.

Singer Peggy Lee -- the sultry-throated pillar of pop music from the '40s to the '60s who is known for Fever and scores of other jazzy, bluesy hits -- died at her home Monday in Bel Air, California.

Britain's Court of Appeal has ordered the Spice Girls to pay an Italian scooter maker damages and legal costs estimated at about £1 million ($1.5 million).

British pop star Adam Ant has been admitted to a psychiatric ward in London under the Mental Health Act.

Some facts about the Andrew Lloyd Webber roller-skating musical Starlight Express, which closes in London on Saturday after 7,406 performances:

Is Stephen King hanging it up?

Scottish rock musician Stuart Adamson had a blood-alcohol level three times the legal drink-drive limit when he was found hanged in Hawaii last month, a post mortem has revealed.

Key facts about London's longest-running musical, Cats, which closes on May 11 after 21 years and 9,000 performances:

The Recording Academy smiled on some old faces and some new faces in announcing its Grammy nominations Friday morning.

The Paris spring-summer fashion week got underway last weekend with a variety of designers display their wares, among them Donatella Versace, Carven and Jean-Paul Gaultier.

Sir Elton John says he and friend Princess Diana had a falling-out about a year before she died, but the death of Gianni Versace brought them back together.

Plasticine heroes Wallace and Gromit are to star in a series of mini-movies on the Internet.

The wife of the drummer from Welsh rock band Feeder, who committed suicide at his Florida home last week, has spoken of the pain she feels after his death.

Dakota Fanning was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild award on Tuesday for her scene-stealing performance in I Am Sam.

Marking the end of a fabled career, and perhaps an era in fashion, designer Yves Saint Laurent announced Monday he is retiring.