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NEW YORK — Most actresses like to meet the real person who inspired the role they're about to tackle. Not Imelda Staunton. Not for her latest job.

NEW YORK — Jerry Stiller, who for decades teamed with wife Anne Meara in a beloved comedy duo and then reached new heights in his senior years as the high-strung Frank Costanza on the classic sitcom “Seinfeld" and the basement-dwelling father-in-law

This week comes an encouragement to go way back to watch a great movie — all the way to 1926. Buster Keaton’s “The General” is considered ahead-of-its-time and it counts Quentin Tarantino as a fan.

We can't take trips these days for obvious reasons. But Netflix is offering a trip into the mind with a gentle new documentary about the world of hallucinogens.

Celebrity birthdays for the week of May 17-23: May 17: Singer Taj Mahal is 78. Drummer Bill Bruford of Yes and King Crimson is 71. Singer-guitarist George Johnson of The Brothers Johnson is 67. TV personality Kathleen Sullivan is 67.

LOS ANGELES — Fox’s prime-time schedule for fall 2020: Monday 8 p.m. - “L.A.'s Finest" 9 p.m. - “neXt" Tuesday 8 p.m. - “Cosmos: Possible Worlds" 9 p.m. - “Filthy Rich” Wednesday 8 p.m. - “The Masked Singer” 9 p.m. - “Masterchef Junior" Thursday 8 p.

LOS ANGELES — “The Masked Singer,” an artificial-intelligence thriller and a prime-time soap opera starring Kim Cattrall will be part of Fox's fall lineup, the network said Monday as it unveiled its schedule amid the pandemic's disruption of the TV i

NEW YORK — Up-and-coming rapper Nick Blixky was shot and killed in New York City, police said Monday.

MIAMI — Betty Wright, the Grammy-winning soul singer and songwriter whose influential 1970s hits included “Clean Up Woman" and “Where is the Love,” has died at age 66. Wright died at her home in Miami on Sunday, several media outlets reported.

ATLANTA — The social justice arm of Jay-Z’s Roc Nation entertainment company on Sunday called on Georgia officials to take quick action in the case of Ahmaud Arbery, a black man who authorities say was killed by two white men as he ran through a Geor