BBC News - Entertainment & Arts

5 August 2011 Last updated at 12:47 ET

Grease dance rival Cha Cha dies

Actress Annette Charles, who played Cha Cha DiGregorio, in the hit film Grease, has died aged 63.

Nearly 50 US art organisations receive money from the company behind the Golden Globes, which is giving $1.5m (£921,000) away in grants.

A sculpture of pop artist Andy Warhol, depicting what he might have looked like had he still been alive, is unveiled to mark his 83rd birthday.

New Larsson book 'does not exist'

Reports of a fourth novel from the writer of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo are wide of the mark, his partner Eva Gabrielsson says.
Mary Poppins dominates award show
British Library offers e-classics

Hitchcock film footage uncovered

Footage of what is believed to be Alfred Hitchcock's earliest surviving feature has been discovered in New Zealand.
Winfrey and Jones awarded Oscars
3D sales boost UK cinema takings

Latin musicians sue over Grammys

Several Latin jazz musicians sue the organisers of the Grammy Awards over axing their genre as an award category.
Kings of Leon US tour cancelled
Amy Winehouse tops UK album chart

Johnny Vegas sitcom Ideal is axed

BBC Three sitcom Ideal, which stars Johnny Vegas as a small-time drug dealer, has been axed after seven series.
Sheen character 'to get funeral'
Morse set to return with prequel

The last pitman painter

The ex-miner who turned to art and still paints at 91
Miller's tale

How Russia inspired AD Miller's Booker longlisted novel
Mercury revisited

Singer PJ Harvey ponders awards' success
Revolution narrative

Booker hopeful Patrick McGuinness on Ceaucescu
Art for the nation

One of the National Gallery's unsung heroes
In pictures

Africa at the Tate Modern
'Self-contemplation'

Sculptor Sean Henry's figures go on display at Salisbury Cathedral
Kermode Uncut

Time to re-evaluate The Big Lebowski?