LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Justin Bieber is not getting much spiritual peace on his eagerly anticipated visit to Israel.

The Canadian teen idol bitterly complained on Tuesday that paparazzi had ruined his visits to holy sites, saying on Twitter that he was “super frustrated” by the intrusions.

His mood was not helped by a newspaper report that a proposed meeting with Israeli prime minister Benjamin

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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Playwright Edward Albee, the author of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf?,” will receive the Edward MacDowell Medal for lifetime achievement, the organization behind the award said on Tuesday.

Albee will become only the third playwright to receive the annual award since it was first handed out in 1960. The medal will be presented to him on August 14.

“Edward Albee was

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BEIJING (AFP) – Former “Baywatch” star and animal activist Pamela Anderson has called on China to join other countries in banning imports of seal meat and oil from her native Canada, calling seal-hunting inhumane.

Anderson sent a letter to China’s minister of land and resources, Xu Shaoshi, inviting him to accompany her to Canada to witness the “cruelty of the annual seal slaughter”.

“Please don’t

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LOS ANGELES – While legendary music producer Phil Spector sits in prison, his lawyers are poised to urge an appellate court to throw out his second-degree murder conviction and grant a new trial on grounds of judicial error and prosecutorial misconduct.
Oral arguments were scheduled Tuesday before the California 2nd District Court of Appeal, which has received hundreds of pages of legal briefs from Spector’s …

LONDON (AFP) – Britain’s satirical cartoonists are sharpening their pencils for the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton on April 29, but are likely to keep their cruellest portrayals in check.

Partly reflecting the British obsession with class and status, the butt of most cartoonists’ jokes are usually those occupying high office and the monarchy, so a royal wedding is fertile hunting ground for

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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Actor Dennis Quaid says his biggest mistake was getting addicted to cocaine, but that the drug was so prevalent in Hollywood in the 1980s that supplies were built into the budgets of movies.

In an article for Newsweek called “My Favorite Mistake,” Quaid, 57, said he started doing cocaine when he left college and came to work in Los Angeles in

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