NEW YORK (Reuters) - She takes on a beloved movie character and dances with penguins, but what really terrified British actress Emily Blunt was descending slowly from the clouds as the new Mary Poppins.

(The story has been corrected to officially remove reference to brocade in final paragraph after Historic Royal Palaces corrects statement)

LONDON (Reuters) - Still wondering what to get loved ones this Christmas? Perhaps some celebrity pointers might help.

LONDON, Dec 14 (Reuters) - A selection of costumes worn by the cast of period film "The Favourite" went on display at London's Kensington Palace on Friday, in the same rooms where the royal characters the movie is based on once walked.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - CBS Corp on Friday named the Time's Up anti-sexual harassment group and 17 other organizations that will share a $20 million donation stemming from the exit of its chief executive Les Moonves following allegations of sexual misconduct.

LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) - There's something comforting about the predictability of a period piece novel adaptation in the Masterpiece Theater tradition. Knowing the story, or even just the rhythms of the genre, there are rarely many surprises.

WASHINGTON, Dec 14 (Reuters) - Gray Television Inc has won U.S. antitrust approval to buy Raycom Media Inc on condition that it sell several television stations, the U.S. Department of Justice said on Friday.

LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) - Time's Up Entertainment, an affiliate of the Time's Up coalition of women across industries working to improve workplace safety, has announced the "Who's in the Room" industry mentoring initiative. The program's goal is to increase the presence of people of color from diverse backgrounds in the entertainment industry's executive ranks.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Decked out in skin-tight leopard print spandex, his eyelids smeared with black make-up, singer Vega de la Rockha roars into a sea of raised "devil horn" hand gestures - the appreciation symbol of heavy metal music.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - She takes on a beloved movie character and dances with penguins, but what really terrified British actress Emily Blunt was descending slowly from the clouds as the new Mary Poppins.

LOS ANGELES, Dec 17 (Reuters) - Decked out in skin-tight leopard print spandex, his eyelids smeared with black make-up, singer Vega de la Rockha roars into a sea of raised "devil horn" hand gestures - the appreciation symbol of heavy metal music.

(The story has been corrected to officially remove reference to brocade in final paragraph after Historic Royal Palaces corrects statement)

Dec 17 (Reuters) - UK shares fell sharply on Monday, as a profit warning from online fashion store ASOS reverberated across Europe and reinforced woes about slow sales during the busy holiday season, adding to a pre-Christmas gloom and worries over Brexit.

WASHINGTON, Dec 17 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Actors Amy Schumer and Ashley Judd have backed a campaign for an American woman convicted of killing a man who paid to have sex with her as a child to be given clemency.

KATOWICE, Poland, Dec 17 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Farming in the Jacuipe Basin of Brazil's parched northeast has never been easy. But rising temperatures and a halving of rainfall over the decades mean it now rarely pays.

ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Dry winds and below-average rainfall in most of Ivory Coast's cocoa growing regions last week could jeopardize the development of the last stage of the October-to-March main crop, farmers said on Monday.