AP Feb. 4, 2010: Mel Gibson and Oksana Grigorieva arrive at the “Edge Of Darkness” Premiere in Paris. LOS ANGELES — Mel Gibson is heard using a racial epithet and calling his ex-girlfriend a “whore” in a recording released by a celebrity news website Friday. The two-minute recording... 

Cocaine, guns, sex and knife play — all part of life behind the scenes on the show “House M.D.” This according to a new lawsuit filed by a bitter ex-employee. In a lawsuit, filed in L.A. County Superior Court, a former assistant prop master named Carl Jones claims he was fired from the... 

No regrets … Marion Cotillard and Leonardo DiCaprio in Inception. Photograph: Melissa Moseley/AP Forty-seven years after her death, Edith Piaf is soundtracking the biggest, darkest, most bombastic blockbuster of the summer. Composer Hans Zimmer has revealed that Inception’s entire... 

Naomi Campbell: the supermodel has been summoned to The Hague. Photograph: Andreas Rentz/Getty Images for de Grisogono Encouraging news from The Hague, where the war crimes trial of former Liberian president Charles Taylor looks finally to have secured a much-needed celebrity angle. Naomi... 

Darren Aronofsky winning the Golden Lion award for The Wrestler in 2008. Photograph: Joel Ryan/AP Black Swan, the new picture from writer-director Darren Aronofsky, will open this year’s Venice film festival. A backstage drama set around the New York ballet scene, the film stars Natalie...