AP Entertainment Digest for Friday, July 3, 2020
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FRIDAY, July 3
UPDATES with VIRUS OUTBREAK-PRINCE ROYCE, BRITAIN-STARKEY-RACISM, DISNEY-COLLEGE PROGRAM SUSPENDED
VIRUS OUTBREAK-PRINCE ROYCE — Bachata singer Prince Royce says he has been diagnosed with COVID-19 and it's been a wake-up call to him and he hopes it will be to others too. Royce said he, like many, is worried that more people will get infected over the Fourth of July weekend. By Sigal Ratner-Arias. SENT: 789 words, photo, video.
INDIA-OBIT-CHOREOGRAPHER SAROJ KHAN — Top Bollywood choreographer Saroj Khan has died of cardiac arrest in a Mumbai hospital. She was 71. Khan choreographed more than 2,000 songs in her career spanning more than 40 years. SENT: 176 words, photo.
BRITAIN-STARKEY-RACISM — British historian and TV presenter David Starkey has relinquished his honorary fellowship at Cambridge University college after he drew outrage for his comments about Black people and whether slavery should be considered genocide. SENT: 320 words.
DISNEY-COLLEGE PROGRAM SUSPENDED — Walt Disney World has suspended the Disney College Program indefinitely amid the continuing coronavirus pandemic. The company said the internship’s participants won’t be among those returning to work when it reopens its Florida theme parks later this month. SENT: 195 words.
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REVIEWS
FILM REVIEW-HAMILTON. By Entertainment Writer Mark Kennedy. SENT Monday: 900 words, film stills.
FILM REVIEW-THE TRUTH. By Film Writer Jake Coyle. SENT Friday: 620 words, film stills.
FILM REVIEW-JOHN LEWIS: GOOD TROUBLE. By Film Writer Lindsey Bahr. SENT Tuesday: 660 words, film stills.
MUSIC REVIEW-JOE ELY. By Steven Wine. SENT: Thursday: 201 words, album cover image.
MUSIC REVIEW-PAUL WELLER. By Pablo Gorondi. SENT: Thursday. 330 words, album cover image.
BOOK REVIEW-ONE LAST LIE By PAUL DOIRON. Reviewed by Bruce DeSilva. SENT Monday: 320 words, cover image.