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Ten of the best songs of the year, as selected by Associated Press entertainment journalists. STEVE LACY, “BAD HABIT” It took nearly three months, but Steve Lacy’s “Bad Habit” topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart and has continued to thrive.

NEW YORK (AP) — Dusting off old musical instruments, appreciating the outdoors more meaningfully, dumping the hair dye and letting the gray fly forever.

Over the years, The Mark Twain Prize for American Humor has gone to such luminaries as Richard Pryor, Carl Reiner, Whoopi Goldberg, Billy Crystal, George Carlin and Ellen DeGeneres.

TORONTO — Canadian series "The Porter" has landed two nominations at the Film Independent Spirit Awards.

NEW YORK (AP) — We first see Juliet in the Capulet tomb, devastated. She's wakes up to see her Romeo dead. But before she plunges a dagger into her heart, she starts ... singing. What comes out is, improbably, a Britney Spears hit. “Oh, baby, baby.

“Live From Finsbury Park" and “Seventeen Going Under Deluxe Edition" by Sam Fender (Geffen) It's an interesting play to release a live album just as you're emerging as an artist of arena rock stature.

US Bestseller List - Paid Books 1. Tom Clancy Red Winter by Marc Cameron - 9780593422762 - (Penguin Publishing Group) 2. It Starts with Us by Colleen Hoover - 9781668001233 - (Atria Books) 3.

Movies US charts: 1. Black Adam 2. Illumination Presents: Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch 3. Top Gun: Maverick 4. Triangle of Sadness 5. Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas 6. She Said 7. Elf (2003) 8. Smile 9. Ticket to Paradise 10.

YEONCHEON, South Korea (AP) — Jin, the oldest member of K-pop supergroup BTS, began his 18 months of mandatory military service at a front-line South Korean boot camp Tuesday as fans gathered near the base to say goodbye to their star.

The producers of the Tony Awards have set June 11 for the show that celebrates the best of Broadway and are setting it in a new location — more than a hundred blocks north of New York City's theater district.