ESPN television sportscaster Erin Andrews arrives at the 2009 ESPY Awards in Los Angeles in this file photograph. CHICAGO — Erin Andrews has sued several hotel chains for negligence and invasion of privacy in connection with the secret videotaping of her by an Illinois man. The videos were taken through... 

Chef Vader and a Star Wars storm trooper serve up some fantasy fare at Comic-Con 2010. Photograph: Mike Blake/Reuters So there we all were, on our first full day at Comic-Con, packed into the black-curtained, dimly-lit, 6,500-capacity Hall H, which is like outer space only bigger and, less... 

Kanye West … ‘I try to compete against the past’. Photograph: Charles Sykes/Rex Features Kanye West’s comeback media blitz continues apace, with the rapper announcing an album that aspires to the standard of James Cameron’s Avatar. West staged an impromptu video... 

Mark Ruffalo and Leonardo DiCaprio in Martin Scorsese’s ‘lively’ Shutter Island. Having finally won a long overdue best director Oscar for one of his most solidly pedestrian works (The Departed), Martin Scorsese cuts himself some cultural slack with Shutter Island, a romping... 

Natalia Osipova performing Giselle by the Bolshoi Ballet. Photograph: Damir Yusupov The Bolshoi Ballet, London Three kinds of Russia are brought together in the Bolshoi’s mixed bill, which takes its title from Alexei Ratmansky’s wittily crafted celebration of Russian folk dance....