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Rome fashion house Fendi announced Wednesday that Kim Jones is taking over from the late Karl Lagerfeld as creative director of haute couture, ready-to-wear and fur collections.

LOS ANGELES — Who do we keep up with now? After more than a decade, “Keeping Up With the Kardashians” will be ending its run next year.

LOS ANGELES — Ellen DeGeneres says she'll be ready to talk when her daytime show returns this month after a staff shake-up prompted by allegations of a toxic workplace. “I can’t wait to get back to work and back to our studio.

LOS ANGELES — Lupita Nyong'o has written a stirring tribute to her late “Black Panther" co-star Chadwick Boseman, calling him a man whose power will ”reverberate for generations.

TORONTO — The Canadian Film Centre and Netflix have announced four projects in the TV series portion of their inaugural Project Development Accelerator initiative.

Nonfiction 1. The Dressing Room by Whisperlodge, narrated by Amanda Wallace (Audible Studios) 2. Melania and Me by Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, narrated by the author (Simon & Schuster Audio) 3. When You Find Me by P. J.

NASHVILLE — William “Bill” Pursell, a Grammy-nominated composer who worked as a Nashville studio musician with artists like Willie Nelson and Bob Dylan, has died. He was 94.

TORONTO — Michelle Latimer was celebrating word that her documentary "Inconvenient Indian" made it into this year's Toronto International Film Festival when she got a phone call with even bigger news.

Elizabeth Cook, “Aftermath” (Agent Love/Thirty Tigers) As an outlaw country disc jockey, fast-talking, y'all-ing Elizabeth Cook has a way with words, and so it goes on her new album, “Aftermath.

NEW YORK — Playwright-novelist Ayad Akhtar has been named the new president of PEN America, the human rights and literary organization. Akhtar, who assumes the presidency Dec. 2, succeeds novelist Jennifer Egan.