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"Tapestry," which featured at least six of the most recognizable songs in American popular culture —"I Feel the Earth Move," "So Far Away," "It's Too Late," "You've Got a Friend," "Will You Love Me Tomorrow?" and "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" — is the subject of the above clip, from director George Scott's "Carole King: Natural Woman," which debuts as part of the "American Masters" series February 19. The singer-songwriter, 74 this month, appears in archival footage performing "I Feel the Earth Move" in her inimitable voice, and in old photos with pals Taylor and Mitchell, but the most remarkable details come from producer Lou Adler: "Tapestry" came together in three weeks, for an inconceivable $22,000. This may explain why the album is so timeless. With little inclination to dress it up the songs in latest fads, they became the template for...

This week, #1 bestselling author James Patterson and Little, Brown and Company are donating 200,000 copies of hardcover Patterson titles to the United States Armed Forces.

The donation will include copies of Tick Tock, Private, The Postcard Killers, I, Alex Cross, Swimsuit, The 9th Judgment, Run for Your Life, Cross Country, Sail, and The Quickie. The books will be distributed via Operation Gratitude with the help of George Scott of Books for Heroes and the Peerless Book Store of Alpharetta, Georgia, as well as a number of military support organizations via Feed the Children.

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The latest sensation in France's love-hate relationship with its first lady has been whether Carla Bruni is pregnant. And her appearance this week at Cannes in Woody Allen's latest film only adds to the fun. Here, five people in the know reveal what she really means to the republic

The long-suffering French public sometimes feels it knows a little too much about its first lady. In three years of Nicolas Sarkozy and Carla Bruni's whirlwind romance and marriage, we've been treated to their first dates, joint jogging sessions, pet names, expensive love tokens and taste for kissing in public – unprecedented at the Elysée Palace. We know Bruni hired a personal trainer who tones up the muscles of the couple's private parts, that beer makes her bloated and can lead to mistaken speculation that she's pregnant, that she's addicted to cigarettes and likes to watch DVDs with her husband...

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Aldo Sanbrell photographed in 2007 by John Exshaw. (Photo copyright John Exshaw. All rights reserved.)

By John Exshaw

With the death of Aldo Sanbrell, who passed away in Alicante last Saturday (10 July), aged 79, another link to the great days of Italian film-making – and the Italian Western, in particular – has been lost. The only actor to appear in all of Sergio Leone’s Westerns, Aldo was the most prominent and recognisable of all those mean-looking hombres who rode the badlands and bit the dust of Almería in those far-off days when southern Spain was the Wild West – Italian style. Asked once by a British director if he “knew how to die,” Aldo replied, “Oh yes, señor, I have been killed in many film fights here in Almería. I have died for Clint Eastwood, Burt Reynolds, Charles Bronson, George Scott . . . I have made 185 films and I...