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NEW YORK — Eddie Van Halen, the guitar virtuoso whose blinding speed, control and innovation propelled his band Van Halen into one of hard rock’s biggest groups and became elevated to the status of rock god, has died. He was 65.

TORONTO — The director of a new film about a Saskatchewan grain farmer's legal fight with biotech giant Monsanto says the drama has some fictionalized characters.

Nonfiction 1. The Meaning of Mariah Carey by Mariah Carey, narrated by the author (Audible Studios) 2. Didn’t See That Coming by Rachel Hollis, narrated by the author (HarperAudio) 3.

PARIS — Monumental light-bulb encrusted letters spelling CHANEL sparkled over the runway at the Grand Palais on the last day of Paris Fashion Week prefacing a collection celebrating the cinema industry.

Apple TV app - Movies US charts: 1. Ava (2020) 2. Archive 3. The Secret: Dare to Dream 4. A Call To Spy 5. Alone 6. Then Came You 7. 2067 8. The King of Staten Island 9. Antebellum 10.

Rank, Book Title by Author Name, ISBN, Publisher 1. The Return by Nicholas Sparks - 9781538728567 - (Grand Central Publishing) 2. Battle Ground by Jim Butcher - 9780593199329 - (Penguin Publishing Group) 3.

TORONTO — It's been a banner week for Writers' Trust Fiction Prize finalist Gil Adamson.

NEW YORK — Stories of race, class and climate change were among the fiction finalists Tuesday for the 71st annual National Book Awards.

Celebrity birthdays for the week of Oct. 11-17: Oct. 11: Country singer Gene Watson is 77. Singer Daryl Hall of Hall and Oates is 74. Actor Catlin Adams (“The Jerk,” ?The Jazz Singer”) is 70. Saxophonist Andrew Woolfolk (Earth, Wind and Fire) is 70.

OKLAHOMA CITY — Two former Oklahoma jail employees and their supervisor face misdemeanour cruelty charges after investigators found they forced inmates to stand handcuffed for hours and listen to the children's song “Baby Shark" on repeat, a prosecut