Entertainment News Roundup: Beauty meets despair in racial injustice movie 'Beale Street'; Broadway's 'To Kill a Mockingbird' puts new spin on racial injustice

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Meghan Markle presents wedding dress designer with fashion award

Meghan Markle presented the designer of her wedding dress with a prize at the Fashion Awards in London on Monday, joining fashionistas at the ceremony where supermodel Cindy Crawford's daughter Kaia Gerber was also named Model of the Year. At a star-studded event attended by fashionistas, singers and actors, Markle arrived on stage as Clare Waight Keller was named British Designer of the Year Womenswear. The Givenchy artistic director designed the former actress' wedding dress for her May nuptials to Britain's Prince Harry.

U.S. auctioneer withdraws 'Star Wars' lightsaber on authenticity issue

A California auction house on Monday withdrew from sale a lightsaber described as having been used by Luke Skywalker in the first "Star Wars" movie after fans raised concerns about its authenticity. The lightsaber was due to be sold by Profiles in History at a Los Angeles auction on Thursday with an estimated sale price of up to $200,000.

Broadway's 'To Kill a Mockingbird' puts new spin on racial injustice

Almost 60 years after it was first published as a book, "To Kill a Mockingbird" opens this week in a first Broadway theater adaptation whose themes of racial injustice are just as relevant today. Yet writer Aaron Sorkin says despite the book's familiarity as a beloved classic of American literature and movies, audiences are in for something different.

'Bohemian Rhapsody' now most-streamed 20th century song

They said it would never sell, with its six-minute playing time, operatic passages and lyrics about Galileo and Scaramouche, but the Queen song "Bohemian Rhapsody" on Monday became the most streamed song from the 20th century. Boosted by the new movie "Bohemian Rhapsody," the 1975 single and music video surpassed 1.6 billion streams globally, record company Universal Music Group said in a statement.

Cosby's lawyers cite grounds for appealing sexual assault conviction

Attorneys for Bill Cosby outlined their grounds on Tuesday for appealing his sexual assault conviction, citing what they called errors in legal procedure that may have biased the jury and warrant a new trial for the once-beloved comedian. The 81-year-old performer, best known for his role as the lovable family man and physician on the hit television sitcom "The Cosby Show," was found guilty by a Pennsylvania jury in April of drugging and sexually assaulting a onetime friend in 2004.

Beauty meets despair in racial injustice movie 'Beale Street'

Some films about race in America are angry, many are passionate, or terrifying or heartbreaking, and a few are funny. "If Beale Street Could Talk," opening in U.S. theaters in major cities on Friday is marked by a quiet beauty and dignity, despite the despair that runs through it.

(With inputs from Reuters)