The Luxe Life in ‘Gatsby,’ ‘Bling Ring’ and Other Films
A reader might speculate about other causes of her ... The script is peppered with high-end name-checks, and the camera steals loving, lingering glances at Louboutin shoes, Rolex watches and Birkin bags. The first line uttered on screen is ...

Andy Kaufman's Death -- And The Faithful Who Say He Faked It
Depending on whom you ask, Andy Kaufman either died on this day 29 years ago, or he sure fooled us. As evidence for the latter, they'll point to his career. Not the obvious one -- his "Taxi" gig or his quick-flaming stint on "Saturday Night Live ...

Two blasts at Iraqi Sunni mosque kill 43
Attacks on Sunni and Shi'ite mosques, security forces and tribal leaders have mounted since troops raided a Sunni protest camp near Kirkuk a month ago, and fears are intensifying of a return to all-out conflict. The increasingly sectarian civil ...

Tamerlan Tsarnaev: Not just any body
If you don't believe in souls or an afterlife, then a corpse is just a body — potentially a teaching tool, a source of life-saving organs, but little more. In 1829, taking such thinking to the extreme, a radical British pamphleteer named Peter ...

Kern beating victim's brother: 'This has got to stop'
Standing near Kern County's replica Liberty Bell ... convictions of three deputies and a $6-million civil judgment in the 2005 death of a jail inmate, according to attorneys. A second ended with a $4.5-million court award for the family of ...

Keegan Bradley shoots course-record 60 at Nelson
Bradley shot 10-under 60, completed by that short birdie at the 428-yard ninth hole, to break the TPC Four Seasons course record and match the best round ever at the Nelson. He topped his career PGA Tour best by three strokes and equaled Phil ...