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LOS ANGELES (AP) — A woman charged with killing a high-profile marketing consultant and social justice advocate in film pleaded not guilty Monday.

NEW YORK (AP) — Ava DuVernay kept hearing she had to read “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents.” She had Isabel Wilkerson’s book in galleys before it was published in 2020. Oprah Winfrey kept telling her to read it. But she put it off.

NEW YORK (AP) — Norman Jewison, the acclaimed and versatile Canadian-born director whose Hollywood films ranged from Doris Day comedies and “Moonstruck” to such social dramas as the Oscar-winning "In the Heat of the Night," has died at age 97.

Canadian film director Norman Jewison, a champion of homegrown talent whose Oscar-recognized titles including "Moonstruck" and "Fiddler on the Roof" ran the gamut from romantic crowd-pleasers to racial and social dramas, has died.

NEW YORK (AP) — Dave Eggers is now an award-winning children’s author.

PARIS (AP) — Dior’s couture show at Paris' Musee Rodin wove an intricate Ottoman tapestry for spring and attracted a tapestry of stars to rival it Monday.

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A former Los Angeles-area gang leader jailed in Las Vegas in the 1996 killing of hip-hop music icon Tupac Shakur has hired a private attorney to represent him ahead of his murder trial scheduled this summer.

PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — June Squibb is perhaps the busiest 94-year-old in Hollywood.

Willi Carlisle's folk music focuses on the folks in the shadows of the hills and hollers, or, as he calls it, “Critterland.” That’s the title of his new album, a compelling follow-up to Carlisle’s 2022 breakout release, “Peculiar, Missouri.

Avery Hellman possesses an affable alto that’s quirky, as is the perspective from which Hellman writes. “Sitting alone on the porch I think / About the things we washed down the sink,” goes one couplet.