Written by Anthony Sargon

Too many films are in 3D nowadays, and it's unwarranted most of the time. The glasses can be cumbersome, the effects get blurry, and colors darken significantly. Never, though, has a movie been so perfect for the 3D format as "Life of Pi", easily the most visually impressive film this reviewer has ever seen in his life.

Oscar-winning director James Cameron, who broke new ground with 3D technology with "Avatar," is bringing that knowhow to Cirque du Soleil, producing a 3D film featuring the high-flying acrobatic troupe.

Cameron acted as executive producer and camera operator for "Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away" -- a movie spectacle which brings the group's breathtaking aerial routines to the big screen for the first time.

As members of the U.S. Senate struggle to bridge their all-too familiar differences on a looming fiscal crisis, perhaps the image of Abraham Lincoln will spur gridlocked lawmakers into action.

"Lincoln" star Daniel Day-Lewis and director Steven Spielberg on Wednesday found themselves at the U.S. Senate, where Democrats and Republicans bickering over gun laws, aid to superstorm Sandy victims and a looming "fiscal cliff" came together to watch the Hollywood drama about America's 16th president.

Three top U.S. senators, including former White House hopeful John McCain, on Wednesday slammed a new Osama bin Laden manhunt movie for suggesting that torture helped find the Al-Qaeda chief.

In a letter to Sony Pictures head Michael Lynton, Democratic senators Diane Feinstein and Carl Levin and Republican McCain took issue with "Zero Dark Thirty," the new film by Oscar-winning director Kathryn Bigelow.

 A 20-year-old Boston University sophomore and a self-described "cellist-nerd" brought the Miss Universe crown back to the United States for the first time in more than a decade when she won the televised contest Wednesday.

Olivia Culpo beat out 88 other beauty queens to take the title from Leila Lopes of Angola during the two-hour competition at the Planet Hollywood casino on the Las Vegas Strip.

Miss Lebanon 2012 Rina Chibany will compete on Thursday in the Miss Universe pageant in Las Vegas.

Chibany, who reserved her spot in the pageant after beating 15 contestants in the national competition, among them her twin sister first runner-up Romy, will join 88 women from around the world who are preparing to don evening gowns, show their interview skills and strut in swimsuits in hopes of becoming the next Miss Universe.

Time magazine on Wednesday named recently re-elected U.S. President Barack Obama as its person of the year for 2012 -- the second time it has accorded him the accolade.

Obama now not only has a reelection as America's first black president and a Nobel peace prize under his belt, but he beat fancied runners-up, including brave Pakistani girls' rights activist Malala Yousafzai, to be enshrined again as Time's dominant personality of the year.

Cassadee Pope, who was country singer Blake Shelton's protege on the third season of NBC's "The Voice," has won the show's competition.

The 23-year-old singer is stepping out into a solo career after performing with a band called Hey Monday. Her victory over Scottish native Terry McDermott and long-bearded Nicholas David was announced at the end of a two-hour show Tuesday.

A beauty queen who claimed this year's Miss USA contest was fixed has been ordered to pay the pageant organization $5 million for defamation.

In a decision signed last week, an arbitrator found that the comments from Miss Pennsylvania USA Sheena Monnin were false, harmful and malicious. Monnin had alleged that the five finalists had been selected in advance of the pageant's live telecast.

Dior, Yves Saint Laurent and Balenciaga: three top Paris fashion houses kick off 2013 with a new designer at their helm. What better way to whet the appetite of fashionistas and keep sales ticking over?

"There comes a point when a brand needs to renew itself," said Serge Carreira, a luxury industry expert and professor at Sciences Po university.