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Academy Museum details plan for inaugural Miyazaki exhibit

The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures is finally opening its doors in Los Angeles in April with an exhibit celebrating the works of the legendary Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki. Envisioned as a jour...

Sep 10, 2020

Taliban say peace talks with Afghan team to start Saturday

ISLAMABAD - The long-awaited peace talks with the negotiating team selected by the Afghan government are to begin on Saturday in the Gulf Arab state of Qatar, the Taliban said in a statement on Thursd...

Sep 10, 2020

Milan Fashion Week to include Black Lives Matter event

MILAN - The Italian fashion council's only Black designer has hailed as a ''breakthrough'' the inclusion of a Black Lives Matter event to the official September show calendar and the formation of a wo...

Sep 10, 2020

Hollywood's inclusion problems still run deep, study finds

NEW YORK - As Hollywood searches for a response to the reckoning brought on by the death of George Floyd and the Academy Awards move to make Oscar nominees more inclusive, a new study captures how the...

Sep 10, 2020

Blue staters make their case in satirical 'Coastal Elites'

NEW YORK - Playwright Paul Rudnick has never been comfortable with the term "coastal elites," that sneering nod to educated professionals who live in California cities or along the Eastern seaboard. "...

Sep 10, 2020

Review: A breakthrough in 'Broken Hearts Gallery'

The 25-year-old Australian actress Geraldine Viswanathan, having already stolen movies left and right, more straightforwardly owns "Broken Hearts Gallery," a glossy but spirited Gen-Y romantic comedy ...

Sep 10, 2020

Maggie O'Farrell's Shakespearean 'Hamnet' wins Women's Prize

LONDON - Maggie O'Farrell won the Women's Prize for Fiction on Wednesday for "Hamnet," a novel that explores the lives of William Shakespeare's often-maligned wife and lost son. O'Farrell's novel beat...

Sep 10, 2020

'Avengers' and 'Game of Thrones' star Diana Rigg dies at 82

LONDON - Diana Rigg, a commanding British actress whose career stretched from iconic 1960s spy series "The Avengers" to fantasy juggernaut "Game of Thrones," has died. She was 82. Rigg's agent, Simon ...

Sep 10, 2020

Anthony Rapp sues Kevin Spacey on sex assault allegation

NEW YORK - Actor Anthony Rapp and another man filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against actor Kevin Spacey, accusing him of sexual assaults in the 1980s when they were teens. Rapp, who starred in "Rent" on...

Sep 10, 2020

Oscars diversity criteria 'not about exclusion' say leaders

Any change to the Oscars is going get people talking, so the leaders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences were not exactly surprised that the new best picture inclusion standards became ...

Sep 10, 2020