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NEW YORK (AP) — Ira Sachs never set out to make an NC-17-rated film. The New York-based, 57-year-old filmmaker of sharply observed independent films ( "Love Is Strange," “Little Men” ) was compelled to create, as he says, “a film of intimacy.

BOSTON (AP) — A vintage Apple computer signed by company co-founder Steve Wozniak is being sold at auction.

There are some good gags and clever innovations in the animated “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem," but there is one brilliant idea: casting Ice Cube as the voice of the movie's mutant insect supervillain Super Fly.

LONDON (AP) — A Canadian is among the semifinalists for the Booker Prize, competing with 12 other authors that also include an Irish writer who has received four previous nominations and twice been shortlisted for it.

The organizers of Wacken Open Air, a hard rock and metal festival in northern Germany, have asked visitors to leave their heavy metal at home.

Top New Shows (US): 1. The Girlfriends, iHeartPodcasts 2. The Really Good Podcast, Bobbi Althoff 3. How Rude, Tanneritos!, iHeartPodcasts 4. Detective Perspective, Derrick Levasseur 5. Rattled & Shook , Tenderfoot TV 6.

Top Paid Books (US Bestseller List): 1. Dead Fall by Brad Thor - 9781982182229 - (Atria/Emily Bestler Books) 2. The Collector by Daniel Silva - 9780062834935 - (Harper) 3. Light Bringer by Pierce Brown - 9780425285985 - (Random House Worlds) 4.

Top Movie Purchases and Rentals (US): 1. The Little Mermaid (2023) 2. The Super Mario Bros. Movie 3. The Flash 4. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 5. John Wick: Chapter 4 6. Transformers: Rise of the Beasts 7. Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken 8. Sisu 9.

Nonfiction 1. Atomic Habits by James Clear, narrated by the author (Penguin Audio) 2. American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin, narrated by Jeff Cummings (Blackstone Audio, Inc.) 3.

Celebrity birthdays for the week of Aug. 6-12: Aug. 6: Children’s music performer Ella Jenkins is 99. Actor-director Peter Bonerz is 85. Actor Louise Sorel (“Days of Our Lives”) is 83. Actor Ray Buktenica (“Rhoda”) is 80. Actor Dorian Harewood is 73.