AP - Perhaps Brangelina chose southern France for its blue skies, vineyards and the availability of an estate with a moat. But there's another reason the world's most famous expecting couple was smart to come here: French law is tough on paparazzi, especially when it comes to snapping photos of children.

AP - Patrick Swayze is going back to work. The "Dirty Dancing" actor, who was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer earlier this year, will begin shooting his new A&E series "The Beast" in Chicago this summer, the cable network announced Monday.

AP - LOS ANGELES (AP) — Heath Ledger was known for giving aspiring Australian actors a hand in Hollywood. Now, an Australian film organization has established a scholarship fund in the late actor's name to continue those efforts.

AFP - The ashes of the iconic French fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent will be scattered by friends in the garden of his Marrakesh villa on Wednesday, it was announced Tuesday.

AP - When Jim McKay traveled to St. Andrews in Scotland to cover the 2000 British Open it was his final overseas event in more than 50 years of broadcasting.

AP - A stuntman was killed and six others injured in a fire while shooting an action scene in director John Woo's Chinese historical epic "Red Cliff," the film's crew and Chinese media said Tuesday.

AP - When Jim McKay traveled to St. Andrews in Scotland to cover the 2000 British Open it was his final overseas event in more than 50 years of broadcasting.

AP - A consumer alert for the millions who have seen the feature film version of "Sex and the City": There is no such book as "Love Letters From Great Men," from which Carrie Bradshaw reads while in bed with her beloved Mr. Big.

AP - R. Kelly told the judge in his child pornography trial Tuesday that he doesn't plan to testify in his own defense.

AP - Amy Winehouse's husband beat up a pub landlord and then offered him $400,000 to keep quiet about the attack, a prosecutor said Tuesday.

AP - A judge has told rapper 50 Cent he may not dispose of the Long Island property where a $2.4 million house was destroyed by fire last month.

AP - "Off The Deep End" (Algonquin Books. 224 Pages. $21.95), by W. Hodding Carter: Dreams die hard, especially athletic ones. The difference is today you can do something about it.