AP Entertainment Digest for Tuesday
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Due to Monday’s U.S. holiday, Celebrity Birthdays and Nielsens will move a day later than usual, on Tuesday and Wednesday, respectively.
TUESDAY, Jan. 21
UPDATES WITH PEOPLE-PAMELA ANDERSON, OSCAR PRESENTERS, SEXUAL MISCONDUCT-WEINSTEIN, BOOKS-MASHA GESSEN, PEOPLE-OZZY OSBOURNE, FRANCE-PARIS FASHION WEEK
MUSIC-GRAMMYWATCH-NIPSEY HUSSLE — At last year’s Grammys, Nipsey Hussle earned his first-ever nomination for his major-label debut. A month after the show he died, but his legacy lives on at the 2020 Grammys, where he’s posthumously nominated for three prizes and will be honored with an all-star tribute. By Music Writer Mesfin Fekadu. SENT: 800 words, photos
MUSIC-GRAMMYWATCH-Q&A-VICTORIA MONET — A profile on Ariana Grande’s secret weapon, Victoria Monet, the pop star’s BFF who co-wrote and co-produced most of her hits and is nominated for two Grammys. By Music Writer Mesfin Fekadu. SENT: 800 words, photos
SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL-PREVIEW — The Sundance Film Festival is an annual rite of renewal. New films, new filmmakers and new voices for a fresh calendar year. And this year, amid an awards season that has disappointed many for its homogeneity, the rebirth of Sundance feels especially vital. By Film Writer Jake Coyle. UPCOMING: 900 words by 5 p.m. EST, photos.
BOOKS-WINFREY-AMERICAN DIRT — Jeanine Cummins' “American Dirt,” one of the year's most anticipated and debated novels, is Oprah Winfrey's new pick for her book club. Winfrey tells The Associated Press that the book has done more than anything else to impart on her “the pain and desperation of what it means to be on the run.” By AP National Writer Hillel Italie. SENT: 1076 words, photo.
SEXUAL MISCONDUCT-WEINSTEIN — An appeals court turned down Harvey Weinstein's request to move his rape trial out of New York City on the eve of opening statements. Defense lawyers want to use a trove of intimate email correspondence between Weinstein and his accusers to try to convince a jury that any contact was consensual, one of the attorneys said Tuesday. By Tom Hays. SENT: 437 words, photos.
PEOPLE-PAMELA ANDERSON -- Pamela Anderson has married movie producer Jon Peters -- the fifth marriage for both of them. The couple first dated more than 30 years ago and recently reunited. SENT:130 words, photo.
PEOPLE-OZZY OSBOURNE — Heavy metal legend Ozzy Osbourne says that he has been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. SENT: 125 words, photos.
MEDIA-OBSTRUCTED VIEW — Americans who want to follow President Donald Trump's impeachment saga and Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein's rape trial through the media will sit in obstructed seats. By David Bauder: SENT: 800 words, photo.
OSCAR PRESENTERS — The winners of last year’s acting Academy Awards will return to the Oscar stage next month to present the coveted statuettes. SENT: 175 words, photos.
FRANCE-PARIS FASHION WEEK — A humble stone fountain, overgrown flowers and scrubs and white sheets drying pegged to a line in a paved square met Chanel's curious guests, including Pharrell, inside the Grand Palais in Paris on Tuesday on the second day of haute couture shows for spring-summer 2020. SENT: 450 words, photos.
BOOKS-MASHA GESSEN — The author and journalist Masha Gessen book will have a new book out in June. It's called “Surviving Autocracy," and is her first book since “The Future Is History," winner of the National Book Award in 2017. SENT: 179 words, photo.
CELEB BIRTHDAYS — Celebrity Birthdays for the week of Jan. 26-Feb. 1. SENT: 1,500 words
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REVIEWS:
FILM REVIEW-LAST FULL MEASURE: By AP Entertainment Writer Mark Kennedy. UPCOMING: Wednesday words by 5 p.m. Film Stills.
FILM REVIEW-THE GENTLEMAN: By AP Film Writer Jake Coyle. UPCOMING: 700 words by Wednesday at 3 p.m. Film stills.
FILM REVIEW-THE TURNING: By AP National Writer Jocelyn Noveck. UPCOMING: 700 words by Thursday at 5 p.m. Film Stills.
MUSIC REVIEW-THE HADEN TRIPLETS: Reviewed by Pablo Gorondi. UPCOMING Thursday: 250 words, photos by 5 p.m.
MUSIC REVIEW-ETHAN GRUSKA. Reviewed by Scott Stroud. UPCOMING Friday: 250 words, photos by 5 p.m.
BOOK REVIEW-AMERICAN DIRT. Reviewed by Julia Rubin. SENT; Tuesday, 500 words, photo.