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‘SPICE GIRLS’ BROWN TAKES NARROW LEAD INTO ‘DANCING’ FINALE

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Melanie Brown emerged from Monday's "Dancing With the Stars" ballroom battle with the highest score, positioning herself to claim the mirror-ball trophy during Tuesday's season finale.

Brown and her professional partner, Maksim Chmerkovskiy, earned 55 out of a possible 60 points for their cha cha and freestyle dances.

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Actress known for roles in ‘Harry Potter’ and ‘Downton Abbey,’ dies

Maggie Smith, the actor who won an Oscar for “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” in 1969 and gained new fans in the 21st century as the dowager Countess of Grantham in “Downton Abbey” and Professor Minerva McGonagall in the Harry Potter films, died Friday.

Kate Winslet shifts focus to trailblazing photographer

“It was so incredibly hard to make this movie, but so rewarding,” the actor says of her new biopic about WWII photojournalist Elizabeth “Lee” Miller.