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NEW YORK — Quentin Tarantino's next work of imagination will be in book form. The Oscar-winning director has a two-book deal with Harper, beginning with a novelization of “Once Upon a Time ... In Hollywood” that is scheduled for next summer.

NEW YORK — Playwright Keenan Scott II's play “Thoughts of a Colored Man,” a work about the outer and inner lives of Black men, is heading to the bright lights of Broadway.

NASHVILLE — Tracey Davis, an author and daughter of Rat Pack entertainer Sammy Davis Jr. and actress May Britt, has died. She was 59. Davis' ex-husband Guy Garner told The Associated Press that Davis died in Franklin, Tennessee, on Nov.

LAS VEGAS — Illusionist David Copperfield is suspending his Las Vegas stage show after a crew member tested positive for COVID-19.

NEW YORK — A group of women who say they were victimized by Harvey Weinstein, including one who testified at his trial, have endorsed former prosecutor Lucy Lang to replace the Manhattan district attorney who put the movie mogul behind bars.

NEW YORK — James McBride's latest novel and nonfiction by poets Claudia Rankine and Natasha Trethewey are among the finalists for the Andrew Carnegie Medals for fiction and nonfiction.

HOUSTON — New York rapper Benny the Butcher was shot during a robbery attempt outside of a store in Houston, authorities said Sunday.

THESSALONIKI, Greece — “Identifying Features,” a drama about a mother’s harrowing journey through Mexico to find her teenage son who went missing while trying to reach the United States, won the top prize at Greece’s Thessaloniki Film Festival on Mon

Universal Pictures has struck another deal with a major theatre chain to shorten the theatrical window from three months to as little as 17 days in an effort to adapt to the new business realities of moviegoing.

NEW YORK — One of the leading literary community and educational centres in the United States , Poets House, is suspending operations because of “challenges presented” by the coronavirus pandemic.