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Quebec filmmaker Xavier Dolan is making a big impression at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival in France, where his latest movie Laurence Anyways is being showcased in the Un Certain Regard program.

Country music legend Loretta Lynn is three years older than she has led people to believe, an age change that undermines her story of being married at 13.

Adele and Lana Del Rey are among the many female artists who took home top prizes at the 57th annual Ivor Novello songwriting and composing awards in London.

Hong Kong actor and stuntman Jackie Chan, whose martial arts talents helped him cross over into Hollywood films, says he is retiring from action movies.

German lyrical singer Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, who was among the top baritones of the 20th century and known for his interpretation of lieder, has died at the age of 86.

The world watched Ted Williams skyrocket to fame, but the "man with the golden voice" soon crashed back to earth. Williams tells CBC News how he survived both misfortune and fame.

Ziggy Marley talks to Q about his famous father's legacy and reveals what he learned about the reggae legend during the making of the new documentary Marley.

A Kingston artist has painted a nude portrait of Prime Minister Stephen Harper and put a price of $5,000 on her work, "Emperor Haute Couture." Reaction on Twitter has been swift.