Glee: a teenage addiction Photograph: Contract Number (Programme)/Channel 4 Things we love Grown-up festivals The summer season means fun weekends. But we would much rather go to real festivals than London’s Underage one – that’s only cool when you’re 14. BlackBerry hype Everyone... 

Mel and Oksana in happier times. (AP) TMZ has learned Mel Gibson’s lawyers will meet with the Sheriff’s Department and not only present evidence that Mel is innocent of any crime against Oksana Grigorieva … but that she committed the crime of extortion. TMZ broke the story … Mel’s... 

‘Peter Jackson would be shearing sheep without him’ … Ray Harryhausen and Jackson (right) share the stage. Photograph: Brian J Ritchie, BFI and Bafta It was nearing the end of Bafta’s Ray Harryhausen 90th birthday tribute at the BFI Southbank last Saturday that special... 

Madonna, ‘looking preposterously beautiful’, says Churchwell, in Dolce & Gabbana’s advertising campaign. It seems that older women are being celebrated by our society at last – or so we’re being told. A raft of recent stories have assured women that it is no longer... 

LONDON The Gulf of Mexico oil spill shows that the United States should follow the example of South American socialists in nationalizing its energy industry, filmmaker Oliver Stone said Tuesday. The Academy Award-winning director of “Born on the Fourth of July” and “JFK” said that...