AP - Roman Polanski's attorneys filed an appeal Thursday asking that a special counsel be appointed to investigate alleged judicial and prosecutorial misconduct in the fugitive director's 32-year-old sex case.

AP - Fess Parker, a baby-boomer idol in the 1950s who launched a craze for coonskin caps as television's Davy Crockett, died Thursday of natural causes. He was 85.

AP - ABC News has hired Christiane Amanpour, one of CNN's best-known personalities for her hard-nosed reporting from war zones over the past two decades, to host its Sunday morning political talk show starting this summer.

AP - A songwriter and music producer who claims he helped launch pop star Lady Gaga says she squeezed him out of her lucrative career after he co-wrote some of her songs, came up with her stage name and helped get her record deal.

AP - Alex Chilton, the singer and guitarist who had a No. 1 hit as a gravel-voiced teen with "The Letter" and went on to influence a generation of musicians through his work with Big Star, died Wednesday in New Orleans. He was 59.

AP - Toni Morrison, Salman Rushdie and Sherman Alexie will be among the writers featured at the sixth annual PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature in New York City.

Reuters - Veteran journalist Christiane Amanpour was named on Thursday to anchor the ABC News' Sunday morning program "This Week" starting in August, after 27 years as an international correspondent for CNN.

Fashion Wire Daily - With the news fresh of Diane von Furstenberg's election to serve a third term as president of the Council of Fashion Designers of America, or CFDA, she joined Nadja Swarovski at her downtown store and studio in New York on Wednesday, March 17, to announce the nominees and honorees for the 2010 CFDA Fashion Awards, the "Oscars" of the fashion industry.

The Newsroom - Burberry has become the premiere brand to break through fashion week's fourth wall this season by staging the world's first-ever global 3D fashion show. (To note, the British fashion brand wasn't the only one to engage with the technology conceived more than half-a-century ago: Los Angeles tailored menswear label Native Son's New York Fashion Week presentation included a multi-dimensional video that required 3D glasses for viewing.)

The ?Jersey Shore? star has already shared some of her beauty secrets: For starters, don?t use a Bumpit. But she has some that she?s kept quiet too.

Jesse James calls the ?vast majority? of allegations against him ?untrue and unfounded.?

The tattoo model told In Touch Weekly that she and Bullock's husband had sex the very night they met, while the eventual Oscar-winner was away filming "The Blind Side."

The actress left the Southern California house she shares with James just days before a report of infidelity by her husband, a source tells PEOPLE.

Roman Polanski?s attorneys have filed an appeal asking that a special counsel investigate alleged judicial misconduct in the director?s 32-year-old sex case.

Author Jeff Kinney watched as Hollywood turned the stick figures from  his bestselling books into movie characters played by  actors ? and one piece of computer-generated cheese.

In transferring the clean, precise humor of Jeff Kinney's wildly successful cartoon novel to the big screen, the material suffers a bit.

The comedian?s representative confirmed Thursday that O'Brien is having discussions with the network, but added that Fox isn't the only  network he's talking to.

For better and worse, the film is an opportunity to sit in the dark with two likable, attractive stars ? Jennifer Aniston and Gerard Butler  ? but that's about it.

The actor became every baby boomer?s idol in the 1950s and launched a craze for coonskin caps as television?s Davy Crockett. He died Thursday of natural causes.

Last week, Heidi announced she had hired Aiden Chase, a psychic, as her manager, after firing her husband, Spencer Pratt, from the role. But now it appears Chase has been let go.

A songwriter and music producer credited with helping launch pop star Lady Gaga says in a New York City lawsuit she squeezed him out of her lucrative career .

It?s been nearly three months since Brittany Murphy died at age 32. And in that time, more questions than answers have been raised about the actress and her husband, Simon Monjack.

The reality TV mom-turned-ballroom beginner hasn?t even made her ?Dancing With the Stars? debut yet, but the bad reviews are already rolling in for her moves behind the scenes.