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Rapper Bushwick Bill dies at 52 after four-month battle with cancer

Rapper Bushwick Bill, best known for his work with the Houston-based trio Geto Boys, has died after a four-month battle with pancreatic cancer, Billboard magazine reported on Monday. The 52-year-old recording artist, publicly acknowledged in a video statement posted on May 1 by the celebrity website TMZ.com that he had been diagnosed with stage-4 pancreatic cancer in February.

Scorsese gets playful with Dylan in 'Rolling Thunder Revue' film

Director Martin Scorsese has made his second film about Bob Dylan, and this time the filmmaker has taken a cue from the elusive rock star to weave a fantastical mix of facts and imagination. "Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story," to be released on Netflix and in limited movie theaters on Wednesday, depicts one of the singer's strangest concert tours - his 1975 U.S. road trip that had the playfulness of an old-time medicine show and a camera crew in tow.

Woodstock 50 loses NY site for anniversary music festival

The troubled Woodstock 50 music festival on Monday lost the site of a planned anniversary event in August, the latest setback for the weekend marking the famed 1969 "peace and music" festival, but organizers said they were pursuing a new location. The Aug. 16-19 festival was to have taken place at the Watkins Glen motor racing venue in upstate New York with a line-up including Jay-Z and Miley Cyrus.

U.S. appeals court to revisit Led Zeppelin 'Stairway' decision

A U.S. appeals court decided on Monday to review its recent decision regarding whether Led Zeppelin stole the opening guitar riff for its 1971 anthem "Stairway to Heaven," but the plaintiff's lawyer still expects a retrial to go forward. The rock band, lead singer Robert Plant and guitarist Jimmy Page had been accused of copyright infringement for stealing the riff from "Taurus," a song written in 1967 by the guitarist Randy Wolfe of the lesser-known band Spirit.

'Central Park 5' tell Oprah of pain and redemption after Netflix series

The five men wrongly convicted of raping a jogger in New York's Central Park in 1989 said on Sunday that a new Netflix Inc series about their case revived the pain from their ordeal but, for some, brought a sense of redemption. In an interview with Oprah Winfrey, the men who became known as the "Central Park Five" said they were grateful that the four-episode dramatic series called "When They See Us" humanized them and used their story to spotlight injustice.

'Hadestown,' Cranston win big at Tony's, 'Ferryman' best play

"Hadestown," a folk opera about a young couple's dark trek to the underworld, topped Broadway's Tony awards on Sunday winning eight honours, including the top prize best musical. Based on the Orpheus and Eurydice myth, Anais Mitchell's musical also won Tonys for best director, score, supporting actor Andre De Shields, orchestration, and sound, scenic and lighting design.

More U.S. millennials subscribe to video games than traditional pay-TV: survey

More American millennials now subscribe to a video game service than to a traditional paid television service, according to a survey on Monday, as consumers favour new forms of entertainment that are shifting the broader media landscape. About 53% of people born between 1983 and 1996 now pay for gaming services, versus 51% who pay for television, according to a survey from the accounting and professional services firm Deloitte.

Without pop culture contenders, Tony awards audience slumps to an all-time low

The television audience for Broadway theatre's Tony awards slumped to an all-time low in the absence of pop culture juggernauts like "Harry Potter" and "Hamilton." Nielsen data on Monday showed that just 5.5 million Americans watched Sunday's ceremony broadcast on CBS from New York, down 20 per cent from 2018 when "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" took home six Tonys and rocker Bruce Springsteen won a special award for his sold-out one-man show.

O.J. Simpson says 'Life is fine' 25 years after notorious homicides: AP

Former football star and television personality O.J. Simpson said that he and his family have moved on from the "trial of the century" that saw him cleared of double murder but forced to pay millions in a civil suit, according to an Associated Press exclusive. Simpson told the AP in an interview that "Life is fine."

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