Kim Kardashian and boyfriend Kanye West caused a bit of a ruckus at John F. Kennedy airport this week after the couple failed to go through security prior to boarding a flight.

BERLIN (Reuters) - When Bosnian director Danis Tanovic learned about a Roma family refused emergency medical care because they could not pay for it, he not only decided to turn their story into a film but managed to convince the couple to play themselves. The result is "An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker", a simple, powerful tale of one man's struggle to provide for his partner and two daughters and of a society where money is apparently more important than human life. ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actor, writer and comedian Steve Martin has become a dad for the first time at age 67 - and managed to keep it secret from the media for more than a month. Martin and his second wife, Anne Stringfield, 41, "are new parents and recently welcomed a child," a spokeswoman for the actor said on Wednesday. The spokeswoman gave no details, including the sex of the child or the date of birth. But the New York Post cited unidentified sources as saying the baby arrived in December. ...

While most Hollywood celebrities bring a small army along to any appearance or event, Kim Kardashian prefers to fly solo. "I travel alone," the reality beauty, 32, said in a behind-the-scenes video of her photoshoot for ELLE magazine's March issue, explaining why she arrived to the high fashion shoot by herself. "I don't have an entourage... I'm sick of my family right now and they're my only entourage!"

LOS ANGELES (AP) — It's easy to understand why Hollywood loves doing business with author Nicholas Sparks. His books are huge best-sellers, and several of the films adapted from his novels — "Message in a Bottle," ''The Notebook," and "Dear John" — have achieved impressive box office grosses. The latest Sparks adaptation, "Safe Haven," will probably continue his winning streak, especially with its Valentine's Day opening pegged to lure female fans. A thriller element that has not been present in earlier Sparks movies is designed to draw reluctant male viewers to see the picture, but they won't respond with the same enthusiasm as his core audience of woozy romantics.

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Nora Ephron helped craft the modern romantic comedy, leaving an indelible mark on the genre by chronicling love-lorn, mildly neurotic urbanites in hits like "When Harry Met Sally" and "Sleepless in Seattle." The director and screenwriter was hailed as a latter-day Ernst Lubitsch for her sparkling dialogue when she died last June after battling cancer. Now the Writers Guild of America, East will add its own tribute. The guild will honor Ephron, a member of its union, at its 2013 awards ceremony February 17 in New York City. ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — "Beasts of the Southern Wild" star Quvenzhane Wallis is an actress of talent, poise and maturity well beyond her years.

William Shatner would like J.J. Abrams to share when it comes to his involvement in sci-fi franchises.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - When it comes to love, sometimes old songs say it best. The 1981 Motown ballad "Endless Love" by Diana Ross and Lionel Richie topped Billboard magazine's "Top 50 'Love' Songs of All Time" list on Wednesday, just in time for Valentine's Day. The duet, written by Richie and used as the theme song for Franco Zeffirelli's film of the same name, earned Richie an Academy Award nomination for best original song. The list is based on the rankings on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart from its start in 1958 until today. ...

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Participant Media has formed a $100 million film fund with Doha Film Institute with the goal of financing 12 to 16 feature films, the companies said Wednesday. The revolving fund extends for a five-year period and the partners will collaborate on developing, producing and arranging distribution for various projects. In addition to the film fund, Participant and DFI are exploring a joint venture to create content for Participant's new television channel, which will launch in August. ...

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Four former Best Actress winners will converge on stage at this year's Oscar telecast, the show's producers said Wednesday. Halle Berry, Sandra Bullock, Nicole Kidman and Reese Witherspoon will present an award, although the show's producers were mum about whether or not they will take the stage together. If they do, it may mean a return to a format that was deployed and favorably received during the 2009 broadcast. During that show, former winners of acting awards appeared on stage together to give short speeches praising each of the nominees. ...

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - The life of an artist is full of surprises, and none has been bigger for French actress Emanuelle Riva than the one that has come late in life. The response has been overwhelming to her performance in this year's meditative "Amour," which brought her the first Oscar nomination of her career - and makes her the oldest Best Actress nominee ever, at 85. Riva was best known previously for her role in the 1959 French New Wave classic, "Hiroshima Mon Amour," directed by Alain Resnais. ...

It's supposed to be a parody of itself, right?

WASHINGTON (AP) — Michelle Obama on Wednesday gushed over the Oscar-nominated film "Beasts of the Southern Wild," calling it one of the "most powerful and most important" movies in a long time in a ringing endorsement delivered less than two weeks before this month's Academy Awards ceremony.

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - One either sparks to Nicholas Sparks, finding his melodramatic love stories to sigh over, or one doesn't. Sparking to "Safe Haven," the latest film based on one of the bestselling author's swoony novels, requires a high tolerance for a mighty sappy love story and the ability not to see a mile ahead for the supposedly surprise plot points, though they're as obvious as bright red buoy markers bobbing in the water. ...

NEW YORK (TheWrap.com) - Universal Pictures announced Tuesday that it will release a new movie from "Despicable Me" producer Illumination Entertainment July 4 weekend in 2015. The studio would not disclose anything else about the movie, which will be Illumination's sixth feature film since Chris Meledandri founded it in 2007. However, we can tell you what it will and won't be. It will be an original, animated movie, a spokesman for Meledandri and Universal told TheWrap. That means it won't be the reboot of the Grinch that Illumination and Universal are cooking up. ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Cinema has a new odd couple in "Prince Avalanche", a low-budget film set in the remote, fire-ravaged forests of Texas and starring Paul Rudd and Emile Hirsch as an unlikely pair of workers painting markings on a seemingly endless road. The tedium of their work allows space for them to argue, bicker, compete and bond in David Gordon Green's oddball remake of a 2011 Icelandic movie called "Either Way". ...

(Reuters) - Two rising Hollywood actresses are seen as front-runners for this year's Best Actress Oscar, with Jennifer Lawrence expected to steal the show from Jessica Chastain on awards night, a Reuters poll showed on Wednesday. In true Hollywood style, there is even some off-screen drama between the actresses before the February 24 Academy Awards with Chastain from "Zero Dark Thirty" using Facebook to deny unsubstantiated rumors of fierce rivalry with Lawrence from "Silver Linings Playbook. ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - The story of French sculptress Camille Claudel is almost impossibly sad, and Juliette Binoche attempts to portray that tragedy in a new film set in an asylum where the actress performs alongside mentally disabled patients. "Camille Claudel 1915", in competition at the Berlin film festival, depicts three days in the life of an artist who spent her last 29 years in a mental institution in southern France, confined against her will by her family. ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Austrian director Michael Haneke said his stark drama "Amour," which has scored a surprising five Oscar nominations including for Best Picture, was inspired by his own experiences dealing with an aged aunt facing death. The unflinching take on devotion, growing old and illness has also picked up Oscar nominations for Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Foreign Film and Best Actress for Emmanuelle Riva's performance as bed-ridden Anne. ...