Jay-Z said in a statement that he will not renew contract to serve as president of Def Jam Records after it expires this year.

  Katie Holmes seems to be shopping baby Suri to the press; Michael Jackson erases Paul McCartney from 25th anniversary release of 'Thriller;' 'Sweeney Todd' top film of 2007.

  You may think they have it all — fame, fortune and the finest of fine things. But it turns out that even celebrities have holiday wish lists, and Pop Tarts has been busy running their requests to ol' St. Nick in the North Pole.

  Will Smith blasts gossip articles that misinterpreted quote he made about Hitler in a Scottish newspaper.

  Late night talk show host Carson Daly says NBC told him that is show would lose 75 workers if he didn't cross the writers strike to air new show on Dec. 3.

  Nicolas Cage's 'National Treasure: Book of Secrets' opens as weekend's No. 1 movie with $45.5 million, according to studio estimates Sunday.

  Oscar Peterson, whose early talent and speedy fingers made him one of the world's best known jazz pianists, has died at age 82.

  Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt used their star power Saturday to help The Children's Health Fund focus attention on the more than 46,000 children still displaced 2 1/2 years after hurricanes Katrina and Rita destroyed their homes.

  J.K. Rowling tearful return to the flat where she dreamed up the story of the schoolboy wizard

  Over the years, Caroline Kennedy sometimes wondered about a third grader who wrote to her father, President Kennedy, worried that Russian bomb tests at the North Pole wouldkill Santa Claus.

  Uncle says Casey Aldridge has told family members that "he wants to go ahead and get married as soon as possible."

  The Christian publisher of Lynne Spears' "delayed indefinitely" memoir, "Pop Culture Mom," is going forward with the book, TMZ reported.

  Hilary and Haylie Duff were in a confrontation with a news crew from the FOX affiliate in Houston Thursday after a hearing in their parents' divorce case.

  Former "American Idol" finalist Jessica Sierra is pregnant and still in jail, TMZ.com reported — and she apparently has a sex video coming out.