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James Harris, a Mississippi-born sharecropper who gained international fame as “Kamala the Ugandan Giant,” a massive professional wrestler who terrorized opponents with his trademark “splash,” has died.

NEW YORK — An English-language edition of “Le Consentement,” a French publisher's jarring memoir about her abusive relationship as a teenager with a prominent writer in his 50s, will come out next year.

To audiences, singer Salome Bey was billed as Canada's first lady of the blues.

NEW YORK — The coronavirus hasn't stopped the world's smallest theatre . “Theatre for One,” where one audience member sees one short play performed by a single actor in a portable theatre , has now gone online.

NEW YORK — “MacGruber,” a parody skit on “Saturday Night Live” that became a movie, is coming back to the small screen.

EDITORS — With the Tokyo Olympics postponed for a year because of the coronavirus pandemic, The Associated Press is looking back at the history of Summer Games.

NEW YORK — Sara Bareilles will be acting against type in her next role: She'll be playing a washed-up musician.

NEW YORK — Antonio Banderas says he's tested positive for COVID-19 and is celebrating his 60th birthday in quarantine. The Spanish actor announced his positive test in a post Monday on Instagram.

LOS ANGELES — Angelina Jolie has asked that the private judge overseeing her divorce from Brad Pitt be disqualified from the case. She points to insufficient disclosures of his business relationships with one of Pitt's attorneys.

LOS ANGELES — Peacock is launching a pair of weekly late-night comedy series with Larry Wilmore and Amber Ruffin to focus on current events.