Academy Awards producer Reginald Hudlin says host Chris Rock is hard at work rewriting his material for next month's Oscar show.

NEW YORK (AP) — Macklemore explores racism and hip-hop in a new song called "White Privilege II," rapping about a white person's position in society with black people fighting injustice and even namechecking Iggy Azalea for appropriating black culture, along with himself.

PARIS (AP) — It was all about the celebrities and the parties at Paris Fashion Week menswear shows Saturday as the buzz around the French capital geared up ahead of the weekend change-over to the glamorous haute couture season.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Sierra Club is suing the California Coastal Commission in an effort to halt approval of U2 guitarist The Edge's plans to build five mansions on a Malibu ridge.

ATLANTA (AP) — Police say rapper Young Dro has been arrested on a drug charge at Atlanta's international airport.

MONTREAL (AP) — A veiled, expressionless Céline Dion sat in silence at Montreal's Notre-Dame Basilica on Friday as she, along with hundreds of her friends, family members and fans mourned the loss of her husband and longtime manager, René Angélil.

NEW YORK (AP) — Toni Braxton has opened her life to the cameras on the WEtv reality series "Braxton Family Values," but she's exploring more of her past in a Lifetime movie debuting Saturday.

BEIRUT (AP) — Two days before peace talks are scheduled to begin in Geneva, Syrian groups opposed to President Bashar Assad are still sharply divided on who should represent them at the talks, opposition officials said Friday as a new wave of air raids in eastern Syria killed at least 40 people.

NEW YORK (AP) — Mariah Carey's new "Vision of Love" is Australian billionaire James Packer.