‘Ida’ wins BFI London Film Festival top prize

    U.K.-based Polish director Pawel Pawlikowski’s “Ida” won this year’s top prize at the BFI London Film Festival’s official competition, walking off Saturday evening with the best film nod.

    The prizes were dished out* at a high-profile awards ceremony held at the Banqueting House, Whitehall in central London.

    Director attacked in Hong Kong

    Hollywood director Michael Bay was attacked and slightly injured on the set of the fourth installment of the “Transformers” movie series filming in Hong Kong, police said.

    A police spokeswoman said two brothers surnamed Mak who own a shop near the movie set approached Bay and demanded HK$100,000 (US$13,000) on Thursday. When Bay refused to pay, they assaulted him, she said.

    Burnett receives humor prize

    Trailblazing* comedienne Carol Burnett received the nation’s top humor prize at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on Sunday.

    The 80-year-old singer and actress, famous for tugging* her ear at the end of her performances, watched from a Kennedy Center balcony as many of her contemporaries spoke of the example she set for their lives and careers.

    Taylor Swift’s new single

    Taylor Swift wants to take you to a 1980s prom with her new song.

    The pop-country star (and future “The Giver” actress) teamed up with fun guitarist Jack Antonoff to pen “Sweeter Than Fiction,” a New Wavey track for the upcoming British biopic “One Chance,” which tells the story of Paul Potts, the down-on-his-luck store clerk who became an opera-singing sensation after winning “Britain’s Got Talent” in 2007.(SD-Agencies)