LOS ANGELES - Animated movies can take forever to make - three or four years is well within the ordinary. "How to Train Your Dragon," which tells the story of a scrawny kid destined to prove his hecklers wrong through an unusual relationship with a dragon, moved at a radically different pace: The two filmmakers behind March 26's 3-D adventure had just 12 months to make their film, inheriting a project needing a top-to-bottom overhaul.

Lisbeth Salander, thin as a knife, is 24 but at times looks 14, with hair "as short as a fuse" and a penchant for applying heavy makeup "in a colour scheme that indicated she might be colourblind."

Apparently, you have to possess the personality of a mad-scientist to put together the cast of "Dancing With the Stars," which returns for its 10th season (8 p.m. EDT Monday, ABC). How else would you explain the kooky concoction of twinkle-toed celebs who will be donning spandex for our viewing pleasure? We've sized up the field and have zeroed in on our five to watch.

British prosecutors said Friday that they will not charge the son of conductor Edward Downes and his wife with assisting the couple's suicides at a Swiss clinic last year.

The most honored British film of 2010 is Andrea Arnold's "Fish Tank," and rightly so. The Cannes Jury Prize winner is an intimate look at teen alienation and first love in an English tenement.

Actresses Demi Moore and Nia Vardalos were linked to an online chain of Twitter posts that ultimately led to Florida authorities intervening Friday when an 18-year-old man threatened to commit suicide.

"Life," like its predecessor "Planet Earth," is the reason flat screens, Blu-ray and high-definition TV were invented. No doubt the 11-part series, with its astonishingly intimate footage of A-Z species engaged in every sort of behavior, will play well on any screen. But its color, scope, detail and gorgeousness cry out for a home theater situation, one of those screens so big you can watch it from the street.

Like most people who receive lifetime-achievement awards, Jerry Bruckheimer wants everyone to know he's not finished yet.

WHAT: The Art Institute of Chicago is opening an exhibition titled "Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913-1917."

A new exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago takes a close - sometimes even microscopic - look at one short and enigmatic phase in the 65-year-long artistic career of France's Henri Matisse.