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Mariah Carey to receive Icon Award at Billboard Music Awards

NEW YORK – No artist has more No. 1 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 chart than Mariah Carey, so it’s only fitting that the singer will receive the Icon Award at the 2019 Billboard Music Awards...

Seymour Cassel, mischievous character actor of independent films, dies at 84

Seymour Cassel, an Oscar-nominated character actor who played raconteurs, street toughs and cha-cha-dancing hoodlums, frequently collaborating with independent filmmakers John Cassavetes and...

Tom Selleck, star of television and films, is writing memoir

NEW YORK – Tom Selleck is working on a memoir, and it won’t just be about acting. The “Magnum P.I.” star has a deal with Dey Street Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. ...

Andre Williams, R&B singer and producer known as Mr. Rhythm, dies at 82

Andre Williams, an R&B singer and record producer whose talking, proto-rap style and strutting stage persona earned him the sobriquet “Mr. Rhythm,” died Sunday at a nursing home in Chicago. ...

Medical bills kept surf-rock legend Dick Dale touring till the end

It was the mid-1960s and the rapid-fire sounds Dick Dale was pulling out of his gold-painted Fender Stratocaster had already reshaped popular music. In the space of a few short ye...

Filmmaker David Lynch teaching a class about creativity

LOS ANGELES – According to filmmaker David Lynch, all it takes are 70 ideas to make a feature film. The visionary mind behind “Blue Velvet,” “Mulholland Drive” and “Twin Peaks” is...

Bernie Torme, guitarist for Ozzy Osbourne, dead at 66

NEW YORK – Bernie Torme, a guitarist for Ozzy Osbourne, died a day before his 67th birthday, according to his drummer. Drummer Mik Gaffney told The Associated Press on Tuesday tha...

Lori Loughlin once played a TV character embroiled in an alleged school admissions scam

Lori Loughlin’s television character faced a dilemma. Her two children had the chance to attend an elite school that promised to put their lives on the “fast track,” but there was only one p...

Drummer Hal Blaine, played on hits of Sinatra, Elvis, dies

LOS ANGELES – Hal Blaine, the Hall of Fame session drummer and virtual one-man soundtrack of the 1960s and ’70s who played on the songs of Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley and the Beach Boys and...

‘Jeopardy!’ host Alex Trebek says he has pancreatic cancer

LOS ANGELES – “Jeopardy!” host Alex Trebek says he has been diagnosed with advanced pancreatic cancer. In a video posted online Wednesday, the 78-year-old said he was announcing h...

R. Kelly explodes during first interview after his arrest

In his first interview since his arrest last month for sexual abuse, embattled R&B singer R. Kelly lashed out on “CBS This Morning,” at several points yelling and saying his multiple accuser...

Johnny Depp sues ex-wife for $50 million in defamation lawsuit

FAIRFAX, Va. – Actor Johnny Depp is suing his ex-wife, actress Amber Heard, in a $50 million defamation lawsuit, citing a piece she wrote for The complaint, filed Friday in the Circuit Cour...