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TOKYO — The Japanese director who shot to stardom with a zombie movie featuring a delightfully long single shot has for his latest project turned to a video tool that’s become an everyday part of this pandemic era: the Zoom call.

LOS ANGELES — Some of entertainment’s biggest names from Nicole Kidman to John David Washington shared encouraging words for aspiring young creators whose organizations were collectively granted millions by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.

PARIS — A Congolese activist was fined 2,000 euros ($2,320) on Wednesday for trying to take a 19th-century African funeral pole from a Paris museum in a protest against colonial-era injustice that he streamed online.

New Brunswick police are asking for the public's help to find writer Richard Vaughan after he was reported missing on Tuesday.

Cody Rhodes s tood bloodied atop a 20-foot high steel cage, steadied his nerves and attempted a foolhardy moonsault -- in laymen terms, a backflip splash -- onto his waiting opponent.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A new film examines the history of African Americans driving on the road from the Great Depression to the height of the Civil Rights movement. “Driving While Black,” airing this week on most PBS stations in the U.S.

LOS ANGELES — An op-ed by Megan Thee Stallion on the need to protect Black women was published Tuesday as rapper Tory Lanez had his first court hearing on felony charges alleging he shot her.

MONTREAL — A woman told Gilbert Rozon's sex assault trial Tuesday that the founder of the Just for Laughs comedy festival raped her 40 years ago in a ski-resort town north of Montreal.

Nonfiction 1. Fauci by Michael Specter, narrated by the author (Pushkin Industries) 2. Nothing Like I Imagined (Collection) by Mindy Kaling, narrated by the author (Brilliance Audio) 3.

LOS ANGELES — When ABC decided the Johnsons of “black-ish” were due a portrait, it sought an artist who understood the family's perspective.