Most young directors would jump at the chance to direct The Kite Runner, the film adaptation of Khaled Hosseini's best-selling novel. Marc Forster was looking for an excuse not to.

"I was very suspicious when they first approached me," the 38-year-old director admits. "The book's readers were like addicts....

I love the Marc Jacobs show. I work at Women's Wear Daily, but I don't cover fashion so I never get invited. But I always find all sorts of ways to get in. Once, I borrowed a ticket from a friend in the office who was on deadline writing reviews....

The Wall Street Journal said yesterday that compact disc sales dropped 20 per cent in the first quarter. As usual, the decline was attributed mainly to teenage kids, who stole approximately one billion songs on file sharing sites between January and March, according to recent estimates. And as is customary...