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NEW YORK (AP) — The estate of Lois Kirschenbaum, an opera fanatic known for collecting autographs backstage at the Metropolitan Opera for more than a half-century, has donated $215,000 to the George and Nora London Foundation for Singers.

In his first interview since his assault and harassment conviction last month, actor Jonathan Majors said he hopes to work in Hollywood again.

TORONTO — There are times when Mark Critch completely forgets he’s filming a show about his own childhood on the set of “Son of a Critch.

What happens in the teachers’ lounge, anyway? When we were kids, that closed door seemed so tantalizingly forbidding, though it probably only hid some coffee-sipping, light chitchat and paper-grading.

LONDON (AP) — Actor Idris Elba on Monday urged the British government to ban machetes and serrated “zombie" knives to help stop young people falling victim to knife crime.

Agnes Green grew up on the poor side of a town outside London in the new novel “Sugar, Baby.” She's been an outsider her whole life, with her strict conservative Christian upbringing directly at odds with her desire for romance, sex and parties.

Celebrity birthdays for the week of Jan. 14-20: Jan. 14: Blues singer Clarence Carter is 88. Singer Jack Jones is 86. Actor Faye Dunaway is 83. Actor Holland Taylor (“Two and a Half Men,” ″The Practice”) is 81. Singer-producer T-Bone Burnett is 76.

They may not have had lukewarm chardonnay on the tables, as nominee Jennifer Lawrence had predicted.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Barack Obama won his second Emmy , John Mulaney won his third, and Carol Burnett took her seventh Sunday on night two of the Creative Arts Emmy Awards.

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — When Lily Gladstone took the stage Sunday night to accept her first Golden Globe, she spoke to the live TV audience in the Blackfeet language.