The Hollywood 'Walk of Fame' is studded with stars whose silver screen lovers were also partners in real life. From Bogart & Bacall or Tracy and Hepburn in the black & white era to Tom Hanks & "Sleepless in Seattle" co-star Rita Wilson or Brad & Angelina, leading ladies and men have led such parallel lives throughout American film history. Today a generation of "new Hollywood stars" includes Paul Dano, of "Little Miss Sunshine" and "There will be Blood" fame, and Zoe Kazan, his love interest in the real world and their new film "Ruby Sparks." AFP's Paris-based lifestyle and culture TV correspondent Jurgen Hecker spoke with each of them recently to find out how the on-screen/off-screen alchemy works.

"Dominique Strauss-Kahn has disappeared from public life but his spectacular and sordid fall from grace is being played out again and again in books, plays, TV shows and movies," write AFP's Paris-based reporter Rory Mulholland. "The fallout of the rapid-fire sexual encounter between a man many thought destined to become France's next president and a maid in a swanky Manhattan hotel continues to fascinate long after the story has fallen off the front pages." Here Rory gives us a whirlwind tour of the DSK-inspired oeuvres on display or in the pipeline. (AFP Photo/Patrick Kovarik)

In the third and final part of a series on perfumes, AFP correspondent Sandra Lacut heads to a school near Paris where the Swiss perfume giant Givaudan trains the "noses" of the future. Here, a small group of cherry-picked elites go through a rigorous training programme, including mastering like alphabets 500 raw materials used in Givaudan scents, as they aspire to produce fragrances that can embody the spirit of their generation (AFP Photo/Eric Feferberg)

A unique perfume 'library' holds samples of 2,500 fragrances around the world and across centuries, including the 14th-century "Water of the Queen of Hungary" and the Cologne water dated 1815 that Napoleon Bonaparte used in exile on Saint Helena. The French military leader swigged back litres of Cologne in the belief it would keep him in shape -- perpetuating beliefs held since the Middle Ages when people sought to ward off cholera and the plague with incense paste. In the second part of a three-part series on perfume, AFP correspondent Sandra Lacut visits the "Osmotheque" to check out the precious scents. (AFP Photo/Kenzo Tribouillard)

A statue showing a naked Roman emperor Trajan carrying a wolf has drawn howls of protest in Romania since it was unveiled outside Bucarest's National History Museum. The bronze statue by Vasile Gorduz (1931-2008) portrays the genesis of the Romanian people from the merging of the Romans and the Dacians, with the wolf as a symbolic animal. (AFP Photo/Daniel Mihailescu)

The British Library bought Europe's oldest book, for the record-breaking price of £9 million. The manuscript, a copy of the Gospel of St John dating from 7th century, is absolutely intact. (AFP/British Library)

If you can’t display them, burn them. That could be the new motto of a state-funded museum of contemporary art in Italy that has started to torch its art works to protest crippling budget cuts. (AFP Photo/Roberta Basile)