Paramount is telling WBD shareholders that it has a smoother path to regulatory approval than does Netflix.

Steve Cropper — who played with Booker T. & the MG’s, the Blues Brothers, and Otis Redding — has died at the age of 84. Cropper was the Steve that John Belushi says ‘Play it, Steve’ to on ‘Soul Man.’

A theatrical sensation since the 1960s, whose dramas included Arcadia, The Real Thing and Leopoldstadt, Stoppard also had huge success as a screenwriter The playwright Tom Stoppard, whose playful erudition dazzled the theatregoing world for decades, has died aged 88. One of a select band of writers from any discipline to earn his own adjective – “Stoppardian” – in the Oxford English Dictionary, he delighted in the most improbable juxtapositions: philosophy and gymnastics in Jumpers (1972); early 19th-century landscape gardening and chaos theory in Arcadia (1993); rock music, dissident Czech academics and the love poetry of Sappho in Rock ’n’ Roll (2006). Continue reading...

Dharmendra, a beloved star of Indian cinema, has died at 89. Known for his versatile roles in the 1970s and 1980s, he became a defining presence in Bollywood.

Star of The Harder They Come had hits including You Can Get It If You Really Want and I Can See Clearly Now