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BBC News - Entertainment & ArtsThe latest stories from the Entertainment & Arts section of the BBC News web site.
A stage version of the Oscar-winning film Chariots of Fire has its premiere in London and is now set for a West End run during the Olympics.
Sir Derek Jacobi, Dame Judi Dench, Sir Paul McCartney and David Hockney are among the leading cultural figures joining the Queen at a reception in London.
Seminal indie band The Stone Roses are to make their live comeback at a surprise gig in Warrington later.
A long-awaited film adaptation of Jack Kerouac's novel On the Road is screened for the first time at the Cannes Film Festival.
Ex-tabloid newspaper editor Piers Morgan explained how to access mobile phone voicemail messages, Jeremy Paxman tells the Leveson Inquiry.
BBC music programme Top of the Pops is to return as a stage show, described by its producers as "a nostalgic interactive jukebox".
Sacha Baron Cohen's latest comedy, about a spoof dictator's eccentric behaviour, takes nearly £5 million at UK and Ireland cinemas.
Art owned by German billionaire playboy Gunter Sachs, including an Andy Warhol portrait of his ex-wife Brigitte Bardot, fetches £35m at auction.
The director of one of several Indian films at the Cannes film festival says he hopes to change the country's reputation as "a joke" at the event.
The former X Factor contestants will perform in the Eurovision Song Contest final in Baku this Saturday after being voted through from the first semi-final.
Marvel comic X-Men is set to feature a same sex wedding following gay character Northstar's marriage proposal to his boyfriend in the current issue.
Singer Katherine Jenkins comes second in the final of the US version of Strictly Come Dancing to an American football star.
A painting showing South Africa's President Jacob Zuma with his genitals hanging out, angering the ANC, is vandalised in a Johannesburg gallery.
Mobile phone firm Orange announces that it is ending its 17-year sponsorship of The Women's Prize for Fiction.
Plans for a large sculpture which will dominate Heathrow Airport's new £2.5bn Terminal 2 are unveiled.
Film director Ken Loach criticises British film censors for asking him to remove swear words from his new film in order to qualify for a 15 certificate.
Tom Cruise has been lined up to star in a remake of 1960 Western The Magnificent Seven, Variety reports.
Rupert Everett will make his directorial debut in a film about Oscar Wilde in which he will also star with Colin Firth.
The Donna Summer classic I Feel Love is one of 25 songs and other sounds to be inducted into the US National Recording Registry.
The R&B star is up for seven prizes at July's award show with Jay-Z and his wife Beyonce nominated for 11 between them.
The legendary Hacienda nightclub in Manchester is revived for a one-off party to celebrate its 30th anniversary.
Netflix and Lovefilm have weakened Sky's grip on the pay-TV film market, the regulator says, meaning it is unlikely to intervene in the sector.
The inventor of the television remote control, Eugene Polley, dies of natural causes, aged 96, in a Chicago hospital.
Unions and the BBC have each welcomed parts of a High Court ruling regarding changes to a staff pension scheme.
The Queen is meeting hundreds of leading cultural figures at one of the most glittering gatherings of actors, writers and artists the UK has seen.
The inventor of the television remote control has died at the age of 96, his former employer has said.
Piers Morgan warned Jeremy Paxman that he would be a fool if he did not use the security settings on his mobile phone to protect his voicemail messages, according to the Newsnight host.
Jedward have made it through to their second Eurovision Song Contest final.
Brad Pitt premieres his new film in Cannes and Jedward make the Eurovision final plus the rest of the day's top entertainment stories.
Author George R.R. Martin says fans of his fictional medieval world are naming their children after his characters.
Action hero Bruce Willis talks about his new role in the film Moonrise Kingdom
This week's Meet the Author is a young teenager's science fiction adventure, Railsea, based on Moby Dick.
Scissor Sisters focus on fun factor for fourth album
Kev Geoghegan is intrigued by 'barking mad' film
Bee Gees 'on a par with The Beatles', songwriters say
Julia Donaldson on Edward Lear's 200th anniversary
The challenge of performing Romeo and Juliet on stilts
