What's Red, Blush, and Gorgeous All Over? 'The Giver' Premiere in New York.

'The Giver' castmates

The (mostly) color coordinated cast pose together: Brenton Thwaites, Katie Holmes, Odeya Rush, Taylor Swift, and Cameron Monaghan.

Taylor Swift

Taylor Swift, 24, cut a gorgeous figure in a red and blush Monique Lhuillier dress finished with matching blush Casadei shoes. In the film, the singer puts her talents to good use, as evidenced by this exclusive clip.

Meryl Streep and Louisa Gummer

Meryl Streep's incomparable body of work isn't the only impressive thing about her. The 65-year-old icon's family is quite the success story as well. Her eldest daughters, Mamie and Grace Gummer, have solid acting careers of their own, while her son Henry is a musician whose work has appeared in several movies. Her youngest, 23-year-old Louisa, who attended 'The Giver' premiere as her mom's striking date, is making her own mark as a model. Given her blue steel pose and Meryl-esque smile, we'd guess she's making a pretty good go of it.

Katie Holmes

Katie Holmes, 35, was every bit the prima ballerina in her flowing, pink gown by Zac Posen and finished off with her hair brushed back into a sleek bun. It was certainly good to see her at the premiere — this was her first big screen appearance since 'Jack & Jill' three years ago.

Susan Bridges and Jeff Bridges

We can't imagine Monday was an easy night for Jeff Bridges, who counted Robin Williams among his friends and former co-stars. But thankfully, he had his supportive wife, Susan, by his side.

Odeya Rush and Brenton Thwaites

Odeya Rush, 17, chose a simple, yet elegant Georges Hobeika dress with small flowers about to bloom for her big red carpet moment. Of course, posing with a co-star like the handsome Brenton Thwaites, 25, who was decked out in Gucci, probably didn't hurt.

Cameron Monaghan

'Shameless' actor Cameron Monaghan, 20, may have missed the "wear red" memo Taylor Swift, Meryl Streep, and Odeya Rush seemed to have received and went for a clashing orange tie instead, but he still looked rather dapper in his navy blue suit. 

Emma Tremblay

Little Emma Tremblay walked the carpet with big smile and loads of confidence in her age-appropriate white dress with a thin bow around her waist that matched the one around her co-star Odeya Rush's red number.

Lindsay Ellingson

We're not quite sure why Victoria's Secret model Lindsay Ellingson was at the premiere, but she sure brought the sunshine in this saucy yellow and nude number.

Lois Lowry

The author of the novel 'The Giver' beamed with pride as she walked the red carpet and went inside to watch her creation come to life on the big screen.

Mystery over massive Alexander-era tomb unearthed in Greece

Archaeologists have unearthed a funeral mound dating from the time of Alexander the Great and believed to be the largest ever discovered in Greece, but are stumped about who was buried in it.

Prime Minister Antonis Samaras on Tuesday described the find as "unique" after he visited the site, which dates to the era following Alexander's death, at the ancient town of Amphipolis in northern Greece.

"It is certain that we stand before an exceptionally important find," Samaras said in a statement. "This is a monument with unique characteristics."

Hidden under a hill at the ancient town, the Hellenistic-era mound containing the tomb has a near-circular circumference of 497 metres (1,630 feet), Samaras said.

A five-metre marble lion, currently standing on a nearby road, originally topped the tomb, he said.

"The tomb is definitely dated to the period following the death of Alexander the Great (in 323 BC), but we cannot say who it belonged to," supervising archaeologist Katerina Peristeri told Mega channel.

Built on the banks of the river Strymon, some 60 kilometres (37 miles) from the modern city of Serres, Amphipolis was an important city of the ancient Macedonian kingdom under Alexander.

Alexander's Persian wife Roxanne and son Alexander were exiled to Amphipolis and murdered there on the orders of his successor King Cassander around 310 BCE.

There were no suggestions that the tomb could have belonged to Alexander himself, who died in Babylon in what is present-day Iraq, but experts believe it could have belonged to another member of the royal family.

Amazon's Biggest Fish Faces Threat of Extinction

Measuring 10 feet (3 meters) long and weighing in at more than 400 pounds (180 kilograms), it's hard to imagine that the arapaima, the largest fish in the Amazon River basin, could ever go missing. But these huge fish are quickly disappearing from Brazilian waterways, according to a new study.

A recent survey of fishing communities in the state of Amazonas, Brazil, found that the arapaima is already extinct in some parts of theAmazon basin. In other parts of the Amazon, its numbers are rapidly dwindling.

However, the researchers also uncovered some good news: In communities where arapaima fishing is regulated, the species is actually thriving, giving the researchers hope that conservation of the species is still possible. [Photos of the Largest Fish on Earth]

Commonly known as pirarucu, arapaima (Arapaima gigas) are the largest freshwater fish in South America. They're unique among fishes for their ability to breathe air — a feat made possible by a primitive lung, which they possess in conjunction with a gill system that allows them to breathe underwater. The fish developed this function because they typically live in oxygen-poor waterways, according to the Tennessee Aquarium, which is home to several arapaima.

But while this supplemental breathing technique helps the fish survive in its native habitat, it also makes the arapaima much easier to catch, according to the researchers.

"Arapaima spawn on the edges of floodplain forests and come to the surface to breathe every 5 to 15 minutes, when they are easily located and harpooned by fishers using homemade canoes," said Caroline Arantes, a doctoral student in wildlife and fisheries science at Texas A&M University in College Station, who helped conduct the study.

Fishy policies

Of the five known species of arapaima, three have not been observed in the wild in decades, according to study co-author Donald Stewart, a professor with the State University of New York at Syracuse's College of Environmental Science. Stewart said that all five species dominated fisheries in the Amazon just a century ago.

A commercially important species, arapaima are traditionally fished by local Amazonian communities, a practice that's largely unregulated, the researchers said. To find out how this lack of regulation might be affecting the giant fish, the researchers interviewed local fishers operating within a 650-square-mile (1,683 square kilometers) floodplain in northwestern Brazil.

In 19 percent of the 81 communities surveyed, the arapaima was found to be already extinct. And the giant fish's numbers are depleted, or approaching extinction, in 57 percent of the communities surveyed. In 17 percent of the communities, the fish were deemed "overexploited," according to the researchers.

"Fishers continue to harvest arapaima regardless of low population densities," said study leader Leandro Castello, an assistant professor of fisheries at Virginia Tech's College of Natural Resources and Environment, in Blacksburg.

But the blame for the arapaima's dwindling numbers doesn't just fall on local fishing communities. Policymakers in Brazil may also be responsible, the researchers suggest. Government officials in the region tend to follow a "bioeconomic" line of thinking, which may have doomed the arapaima, the researchers said. [Amazon Expedition: An Album]

"Bioeconomic thinking has predicted that scarcity would drive up fishing costs, which would increase price and help save depleted species," Castello said. "If that prediction were true, extinctions induced by fishing would not exist, but that is not what has happened."

Fishing down

What is happening in the Amazon River basin is in line with something Castello and his colleagues call the "fishing-down" theory. This idea helps explain how large, high-value, easy-to-catch fish — such as the arapaima — can be fished to extinction.

In communities where arapaima are scarce, local fishers stop hunting the fish in traditional ways, such as with a harpoon. However, this doesn't mean fishers aren't killing arapaima; they're simply killing them in a different way.

These fishers use gill nets to harvest smaller fish, including juvenile arapaima. While local fishers don't necessarily catch the smaller arapaima on purpose, by "fishing down" they still end up killing the fish and further depleting the arapaima population.

But there is a bright side to this sad fish tale, according to study co-author David McGrath, a researcher with the Earth Innovation Institute in San Francisco. In communities that have implemented fishing rules, such as imposing a minimum capture size for arapaima and restricting the use of gill nets, the density of arapaima is 100 times higher than in places where no such rules exist.

"These communities are preventing further arapaima extinctions," McGrath said. 

Unfortunately, only 27 percent of the communities surveyed have management rules in place for fishing arapaima. One community that does manage these fish, Ilha de São Miguel, banned the use of gill nets two decades ago. It now has the highest arapaima densities in the region, the researchers found.

But regulations like those implemented by the community of Ilha de São Miguel are not common in floodplain regions, Castello said. These areas, he explained, suffer from widespread illegal fishing, a fact that he worries could lead to fishing-induced extinctions for other Amazonian species.

Fixing the situation

Part of the problem, Castello said, is a lack of economic alternatives for the fishers who survive on the commercial trade of threatened fish species. But the researchers said their findings demonstrate that it's possible to save the arapaima from extinction without jeopardizing local food supplies.

"Fisheries productivity in Ilha de São Miguel is also the highest in the study area," Castello said. "Cast nets are allowed because they are much more selective, yet they yield abundant fishes for local consumption, so food security for the community is not compromised."

This bodes well for both fish and fishermen, said the researchers, who believe that spreading the fishing practices of Ilha de São Miguel to other areas of the Amazon could bring this unique species of fish back from the brink.

Audrey Hepburn's Granddaughter Channels the Late Style Icon

Sean Ferrer, the elder son of Audrey Hepburn, has noticed similarities between his late mother and his 20-year-old daughter, Emma Ferrer, even though the women never had the chance to meet.

"My mother was the same as she was on the screen: unassuming, humble, funny, emotional, strong, delicate," Ferrer tells Harper's Bazaar of his mother, who died of a cancer in 1993, more than a year before Emma was born. "Fortunately Emma has much better boundaries than either Mom or I ever had. But the genes are strong — and the comedic gene is alive and well. And I can't help but think that both had to quit professional ballet because they were too tall."

The long and lithe Emma channels the source of those famous genes on the cover of the subscriber version of this month's Harper's Bazaar. In her first modeling job, Audrey's granddaughter evokes the iconic image of the Oscar-winning actress by wearing chic ensembles in a simple, sophisticated color palette — all looks reminiscent of Audrey. (The photographer for the shoot was none other than Michael Avedon, grandson of famed photographer Richard Avedon, who regularly captured snapshots of Audrey in the '50s.)View gallery

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Emma reveals in an accompanying interview that in addition to dressing like her grandmother, she's also been thinking about her more than usual.

"I've been questioning a lot lately what she means to me," Emma, a student at the Florence Academy of Art, tells the magazine. "I knew her image, of course, and that I happened to be, by pure chance, related to her. But as a child I couldn't really relate to Audrey Hepburn, the actress. To me, she was family. I can live with her through my father. His stories are all about his growing up.

"But honestly, I haven't seen all of her movies," Emma reveals. "When I watched Breakfast at Tiffany's, I enjoyed it the same way any young girl would. I've seen My Fair Lady and Roman Holiday, but I suppose my favorite is Funny Face."

The difference was that Emma had more than a poster of Audrey on her wall. She still has her grandmother's cashmere turtlenecks — "which I adore and wear all throughout the winter," she notes — and "a white antique stuffed teddy bear."

Although the photos turned out beautifully for the novice model, don't expect to see much more of her in the pages of magazines.

"I don't see myself entirely devoted to a life as a model," Emma explained in a Women's Wear Daily story about the Harper's photo shoot. "I think it would be an amazing accompaniment to what it is I want to do. I'm interested in being involved in the fashion world... but not completely."

In January, Emma plans to move to NYC, where she'll continue studying to be an artist.

Disastrous for its owner, L.A. midcentury masterpiece Silvertop is on the market for $7.5 million

It was a house so wondrous that it helped bankrupt its owner.

Kenneth Reiner, an inventor whose aircraft nuts and pin-curl clips made him rich, commissioned the estate known as Silvertop from architect John Lautner. Overlooking the Silver Lake Reservoir, it's now one of Los Angeles' best-known homes. "Its soaring, ultramodern roof planes make it appear about to zoom off to Mars, taking part of the hill with it," wrote the Saturday Evening Post in 1960. "Around one end spirals a steep, apparently unsupported ramp that looks too fragile to cling there another minute."

The Post deemed the unfinished building "the darnedest house ever seen around Southern California." A photo of the Reiner family was captioned: "Still waiting, after four years, to move into Silvertop."

With buttons everywhere, the house seemed to operate as if by magic. You touched one lighted button and a sink filled with warm water to wash. Moments later it emptied and rinsed itself. Reiner invented many of the gizmos himself.

The cantilevered driveway was so radical that the city didn't believe it would support a car. Reiner had to sue for permission to build it. "He admits he is a stubborn man," a 1957 Los Angeles Times article said.

A two-page Life magazine spread of Silvertop's then-radical infinity-edge pool, shot by Grey Villet.

And that pool! -- "spookily engineered so there seems to be no rim, just water to the edge," Life magazine wrote in 1962. A photo by Grey Villet showed Reiner's daughter Bonnie and a friend on the invisible edge. "Her sister, her hands poking out of the water, seems about to go over the side between them while another under-water friend waves. Many parents will not live in the hills because they are afraid for their children, but kids survive."

These days many folks would recognize an infinity-edge pool -- but Lautner's at Silvertop is thought to be perhaps the very first modern one. 

It's just one of the ways Silvertop was ahead of its time, so much so that it has stood in as the embodiment of Los Angeles, as in the 1980s film "Less Than Zero."

Silvertop embodied L.A. in the 1980s movie Less Than Zero. Click any image for a slideshow.

And yet Reiner never got to live in it.

The house was originally expected to cost $75,000, but Reiner, a dream client if ever there was one, put no limitations on Lautner. Absent any pressure to economize, costs soared to more than $1 million. Reiner and a business partner even formed a corporation to support Lautner's office, freeing up the architect to focus on Silvertop, according to Reiner's obituary in the Los Angeles Times. Eventually, though, the partner sued Reiner, who lost the house in bankruptcy.

In 1974, the house sold to another family, the Burchills. They finished off Silvertop with Lautner's help and lived there right up to the present day.

Forty years later, it's on the market again. "They had great fun, and that is why they stayed so long," Mary Burchill Maxson said of her parents. But now her father has died, and her mother is in her 90s and wants to be closer to her children in Northern California, she told the Wall Street Journal.

Silvertop is listed at $7.5 million with Crosby Doe Associates. Offers are to be reviewed in about two weeks, on Aug. 25.

And see a Wall Street Journal report about the house (after the "Burn Notice" star's sale) here:

Lauren Bacall: 23 Unforgettable Moments From a Dazzling Life

'To Have and Have Not' (1944)

Lauren Bacall was a 19-year-old fashion model when she won her breakthrough part in a screen test. To brace herself from shaking with nervousness during the shoot, Bacall sunk her chin into her chest and gazed upward, a gaze that became known as "The Look" — and that made her an instant star. "To Have and Have Not" not only marked the beginning of her career, but the start of her romance with co-star Humphrey Bogart, the great romance.

Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart

From October 1946: Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart reading 'Sea' magazine between acts at rehearsals for the CBS Lux Radio Theater.

'The Big Sleep' (1946)

Her second movie with Humphrey Bogart was Howard Hawks's adaptation of Raymond Chandler's noir novel. Bogie plays private dick Philip Marlowe, Bacall plays the daughter of his rich client, and their interplay here gets impossibly electric, particularly during their famous and highly suggestive conversation about horse racing.

'Key Largo' (1948)

The fourth and final time Bogart and Bacall appeared together on screen. The sultry tale of a tense standoff among gangsters in a tropical hotel during a hurricane, 'Largo' features what may be Bacall's most confident performance. It's certainly among the steamiest. 

Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall

The couple rides bicycles while on the set of the film 'Key Largo' in Hollywood, 1948.

Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart

Bogart and Bacall attend a cocktail party at the Calvados cabaret club on the Champs-Elysees in Paris, 1951.

Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart

Posing for a portrait at the Academy Awards, held at the RKO Pantages Theater on March 20, 1952, in Los Angeles. Bogart holds the Oscar he won for best actor in John Huston's film 'The African Queen.'

Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall

Sitting outside a cafe in Portofino, Italy, 1954.

'How to Marry a Millionaire' (1953)

Bacall makes a luscious trio along with Betty Grable and Marilyn Monroe in this fizzy romantic comedy about scheming New York City roommates who are on the hunt for rich husbands (it was 1953, after all — a girl needed a life goal). Bacall later said of her co-stars: 'Betty Grable [was] one of the funniest, most adorable women. I was crazy about her. And Marilyn [was] just sweet. There was nothing mean about Marilyn.'

Governors Award

Roger Corman, Lauren Bacall, and Gordon Willis after receiving their Governors Awards from the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences in 2009.

Angelica Huston and Lauren Bacall

Attending the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences's inaugural Governors Awards in 2009. 

The Grande Dame

Arriving at the 2010 Vanity Fair Oscar Party in West Hollywood, California.

Sheriff Reveals New Details of Robin Williams Suicide

Robin Williams hanged himself with a belt after his wife had gone to sleep Sunday night.

Those are among the graphic new details to emerge about the death of the 63-year-old entertainer at a press conference Tuesday. 

Speaking from prepared notes, Marin Sheriff's Lt. Keith Boyd said that Williams's wife, Susan Schneider, went to bed at 10:30 p.m. on Sunday. Williams later retired in a different bedroom of their home in Tiburon, California, a small town in the San Francisco Bay area.

In the morning, Schneider left the home, thinking Williams was still sleeping. His assistant later came to the house and, concerned about the actor, went into the bedroom and discovered his lifeless body at about 11:45 a.m.

Williams died as a result of death by asphyxia, said Boyd. The actor was partially clothed and suspended from a belt that was wedged between a closet door and the door frame. The assistant told officials he was cold to the touch and rigor mortis had begun to set in. The iconic comedian was pronounced dead at 12:02 p.m. Monday.

Williams's wrist also had several acute superficial wounds on his left wrist thought to be from a pocket knife that was found nearby. His body was transported to Napa County Sheriff's Morgue for the autopsy, which took place Tuesday morning.

Boyd would not confirm whether a note was left behind nor would he reveal whether it was Williams's first suicide attempt. He did state that Williams was being treated for depression. And authorities had not been called to the home for previous incidents.

News of the beloved actor's suicide spread quickly Monday afternoon, but the details were sketchy. Officials said the actor was last seen alive at about 10 p.m. on Sunday. An emergency call from his home was placed just before noon on Monday. He was discovered unresponsive and pronounced dead at the scene from what the sheriff's department described as apparent suicide due to asphyxia. The Napa County Coroner's Office conducted an autopsy Tuesday morning  but an official cause of death isn't expected for several weeks pending the results of toxicology tests.

His third wife, Schneider, whom he married in 2011, issued the following statement Monday: "This morning, I lost my husband and my best friend, while the world lost one of its most beloved artists and beautiful human beings. I am utterly heartbroken. On behalf of Robin's family, we are asking for privacy during our time of profound grief. As he is remembered, it is our hope the focus will not be on Robin's death, but on the countless moments of joy and laughter he gave to millions."

His daughter Zelda, 25, posted an emotional tribute on Twitter, declaring, "I love you. I miss you."

Williams, who has been candid about his struggles with alcohol and cocaine, went to rehab in June — just after his TV series The Crazy Ones was canceled. At the time his rep said, "He has been working hard and now has a break in his schedule, so wants to come back and be the best that he can be. This is his version of a retreat." His addictions were linked to the depression he suffered for much of his life. In an 2010 interview with the U.K.'s Guardian, he said that while working on the film Insomnia in Alaska in 2003, he felt "alone and afraid" and that led to him drinking as a way to cope and hurting his relationship with his family. "I was shameful, did stuff that caused disgust — that's hard to recover from," he said.

He spoke more in depth about his depression during a 2006 interviewwith NPR, saying that while he hadn't been diagnosed with clinical depression or bipolar disorder, "I get bummed, like I think a lot of us do at certain times. You look at the world and go, 'Whoa.' Other moments you look and go, 'Oh, things are OK.'"

Tributes have been popping up for the actor, from his contemporaries offering their condolences to fans flocking to places he was associated with to remember him. Makeshift memorials were set up outside theMork & Mindy house in Boulder, Colorado, on the stairs of the Mrs. Doubtfire house in San Francisco, and on a bench in Boston Public Garden where he filmed a pivotal scene from Good Will Hunting.

Not all the attention has been positive. Fox News's Shepard Smith was in backtrack mode Tuesday, hours after referring to Williams as "a coward" for taking his life. Speaking to Mediate, Smith said, "To the core of my being, I regret it. It just came out of my mouth. And I'm so sorry. And to anyone and their families who see that, I am sorry."

Smith was not alone in facing outrage from fans. Former Diff'rent Strokes star Todd Bridges removed a Twitter post that called Williams's suicide "a very selfish act" and replaced it with a series of mea culpas. "I apologize for my negative comment, and I ask forgiveness for any pain that I have caused anyone," tweeted Bridges, explaining he was still reeling from a friend's suicide.

Earlier Tuesday ABC News issued an apology for coverage many deemed intrusive. The network showed aerial views of William's gated home, where he killed himself, and touted the footage with a special red banner at the top of its homepage: "Watch Live: Aerial Views of Robin Williams' Home." The social media backlash was instantaneous from fans who deemed it an invasion of his family's privacy in light of his wife's public plea.

"When we realized there was no news value to the live stream, we took it down immediately," ABC News said in a statement. "Our intention was not to be insensitive to his family, friends and fans, and for that we apologize."