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Security, NY incident leave some unsettled after ‘Joker’

Extra layers of security, intense on-screen action and a frightening incident inside a New York theater combined to create an unsettling experience for some moviegoers who went to see “Joker” on its opening weekend. A young man who was loudly cheering and applauding on-screen murders sent ...

21 Savage: Kids in US illegally should become citizens

LOS ANGELES — Rapper 21 Savage believes immigrants like him who lived in America illegally as children should automatically become U.S. citizens. The Grammy-nominated artist who was held this year in federal immigration detention told The Associated Press Thursday night that such immigrants ...

James Franco’s ex-students sue alleging sexual impropriety

LOS ANGELES — Two actresses sued James Franco and the acting and film school he founded Thursday, saying he intimidated his students into gratuitous and exploitative sexual situations far beyond those acceptable on Hollywood film sets. Sarah Tither-Kaplan and Toni Gaal, former students at ...

3 charged with providing drugs that killed rapper Mac Miller

LOS ANGELES — Three men arrested during the investigation into rapper Mac Miller’s deadly overdose last year have now been charged with providing the drugs that killed him, U.S. prosecutors said Wednesday. A grand jury indictment that was unsealed in Los Angeles accuses the men of ...

2 years after Las Vegas attack, loved ones honor 58 victims

LAS VEGAS — From a sunrise event to a reading of victims’ names at the time the bullets flew, Las Vegas on Tuesday was marking two years since the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history, with memorials to the 58 people killed at a country music festival. “No anniversary is more ...

Martin Scorsese’s epic ‘The Irishman’ premieres in New York

NEW YORK — Martin Scorsese’s “The Irishman” premiered Friday at the New York Film Festival, finally raising the curtain on the director’s long-awaited, 209-minute crime-drama opus. Though the film’s genre and cast, including Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci, has led some to expect a ...