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At age 94, Roger Angell keeps collecting honors. Over the past year, the longtime New Yorker contributor and editor has been voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame for his writing about the game and received a National Magazine Award for his highly praised personal essay “This Old Man.” The latest tribute comes from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, which Tuesday welcomed him as one of five new members for 2015. “My theory is that if you stick around long enough this stuff happens,” Angell told The Associated Press during a recent telephone interview. Angell, whose byline first appeared in The New Yorker during World War II, is not the oldest new academy member. Caricaturist Al Hirschfeld was 99 when elected in 2003. The latest inductees have a…

Here’s the thing about holding Fashion Week in February: No one really talks about the clothes - they’re too busy talking about the weather. This year, it was even colder than usual, which meant even more painful moments slip-sliding along icy streets and shivering one’s you-know-what off waiting for someone to decide to open the doors. Still, some lingering images from the actual shows stand out. A look at what was weird, wonderful or both: KANYE ARRIVES - AND ARRIVES. AND ARRIVES. There’s no question who the biggest celeb was this Fashion Week: Kanye West. And boy, was Yeezy everywhere. First, there was his very own fashion show, a collaboration with Adidas. The A-list event was memorable in many ways. There was the interminable wait to get in. There was…

BIRDMAN, MOORE AND REDMAYNE AMONG BIG WINNERS Another late February evening, another Academy Awards ceremony at Hollywood's Dolby Theatre... and another set of winners. The 87th Oscars wasn't exactly the most unpredictable one we've ever had as far as the winners list was concerned, but there were still plenty of aspects of the big night that excited, stimulated and gave food for thought. Let's get the obvious headlines out of the way. It turned out to be the Alejandro González Iñárritu co-written and directed Birdman that claimed the all-important Best Picture gong. The story of a faded former superhero actor trying to reinvent himself on Broadway - as played by erstwhile Batman Michael Keaton - tied with The Grand Budapest Hotel for the most awards won on the night, with four each.…

Oscar-nominated animators felt like something was missing at the film academy’s annual celebration of the best animated films: Their colleagues from “The Lego Movie.” The most popular animated feature of the year failed to earn an Oscar nod. “It’s tough, because we love those guys,” “Big Hero 6” producer Roy Conli said of the film’s directors, Phil Lord and Chris Miller. “And we love their movie,” added “Big Hero” co-director Chris Hall. The makers of “Big Hero 6,” “The Boxtrolls,” “How to Train Your Dragon 2,” “Song of the Sea” and “The Tale of the Princess Kaguya” gathered at film academy headquarters in Beverly Hills, California, Thursday to discuss their nominated films. The animation community is relatively small and pretty tight. Many nominees said they know or have worked with…

First Kiss Kid Rock Rapper and singer-songwriter Kid Rock returns with his tenth studio album, his first since 2012’s Rebel Soul. This self-produced effort exhibits his career-long dexterity at jumping between old school hip hop, classic rock and country, from the melancholy country number “A Beer With Dad” to the Aerosmith-esque rocker “Ain’t Enough Whiskey”. FIVE FACTS: 1. Kid Rock is the stage name of Robert James Richie. 2. He is a five-time Grammy Award nominee. 3. His 1998 album Devil Without a Cause has been described by Allmusic as a “rap-rock masterpiece”. 4. His musical influences range from Warren Zevon and Jim Croce to Hank Williams, Jr. and Johnny Cash. 5. His song “Born Free” was Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney’s political campaign theme in 2012. Fan of a Fan…

There’s another departure in store for “The Daily Show.” Jason Jones will leave the Comedy Central series after nearly a decade to star in and produce a new TBS sitcom that was announced Tuesday. Earlier this month, “Daily Show” host Jon Stewart said he will leave sometime this year. Samantha Bee, Jones’ wife and fellow “Daily Show” correspondent, will remain with the satirical news show, Comedy Central said in confirming Jones’ exit. But Bee will join her husband as an executive producer on the TBS sitcom about a family on the road. On Twitter, Jones said it was time for him to exit “The Daily Show,” which he called among TV’s greatest programs. Comedy Central said Jones will leave this year but didn’t give a date for his last show.…

“Fast & Furious” and “Forza” are hitching a ride together. The hugely successful movie franchise is teaming up with the critically acclaimed “Forza” racing series for a video game featuring cars and missions inspired by Universal Pictures’ “Fast & Furious” film series. The downloadable title will serve as an expansion to “Forza Horizon 2,” the latest open-world edition of Turn 10 Studios’ “Forza Motorsport” game franchise. “We’ve been talking with the folks at Turn 10 for a number of years and have always wanted to work together,” said Bill Kispert, executive vice president of digital licensing at “Fast & Furious” studio Universal. “It was a matter of schedules, capacity and a film coming together at the right time. It finally has, and we’re excited to collaborate with Turn 10.” “Forza…

The blur between the Spirit Awards and the Academy Awards - set a day apart on different sides of Los Angeles, with distinctly different dress codes - is nearly complete. Increasingly, the films honored at the Oscars come from the independent world that the Spirit Awards were created to celebrate. The best movies of the year, as judged by Hollywood, no longer include much from the studios’ regular output. So the Independent Film Spirit Awards, which began as a beachside, pre-Oscars bash, now regularly serves as not only an indie appetizer to Sunday’s Academy Awards, but basically a taste-test for Oscar’s main course. All of last year’s acting winners won in Hollywood the day after they won in Santa Monica at the Spirits, as did the best picture winner for…

Things started to come into focus for Will Smith when “After Earth” bombed. Once the biggest movie star in the world, his $130 million sci-fi spectacle “After Earth” opened in June 2013 to a lousy $27.5 million and would only go on to make up less than half of its production budget, domestically, by the end of its run. For a man who once defined himself by his box office star power, the blow was crushing. “From the time I was in my early 20s, I had this goal that `I want to be the biggest movie star in the world,’” said Smith on a recent afternoon at a suburban Four Seasons Hotel, lowering his voice to a faux-macho level when he says the words “movie star.” “And I set…

Lester Holt’s audience shot up by more than half a million viewers on his second week filling in at NBC’s “Nightly News” for the suspended Brian Williams. Then again, his rivals fared just as well. NBC’s newscast averaged 10.1 million viewers last week, roughly 600,000 more than the week before, the Nielsen company said. But on a busy news week with many viewers shut in by the cold, ABC’s “World News Tonight” gained about the same number of viewers and the “CBS Evening News” shot up by 900,000. The result is evidence that “Nightly News” did not take a big hit, at least initially, because of the suspension of Williams for six months for misrepresenting his experiences covering the Iraq War in 2003. “Nightly News” had about a 400,000 edge…

For years, parents of babies who seem likely to develop a peanut allergy have gone to extremes to keep them away from peanut-based foods. Now a major study suggests that is exactly the wrong thing to do. Exposing infants like these to peanuts before age 1 actually helped prevent a peanut allergy, lowering that risk by as much as 81 percent, doctors found. Instead of provoking an allergy, early exposure seemed to help build tolerance. Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, called the results “without precedent” and said in a statement that they “have the potential to transform how we approach food allergy prevention.” His agency helped fund the study, the largest and most rigorous test of this concept. Results were published online…

Hollywood took its collective gaze off itself and shifted it to fashion Friday night as designer and director Tom Ford staged an eye-popping show rivaled by the starry makeup of the audience. In a display of celebrity that gave a hint at what is to come on Sunday’s Oscar red carpet, the staging of Ford’s autumn/winter womenswear collection drew superstars from every genre: There was Beyonce and Jay Z, Jennifer Lopez, Anna Wintour, Gwyneth Paltrow, Scarlett Johansson, Amy Adams, Julianne Moore, Elton John, Aaron Rogers with girlfriend Olivia Munn, Magic Johnson, Naomi Campbell . and that was just for starters. “It was beautiful and it was so nice that he brought his presentation to Los Angeles because he has so many fans here and he’s about to start his next…

REPORTS SUGGEST THAT CUPERTINO COULD RIVAL TESLA Apple has already been quite the game-changer in music and phones - two fields that it had little association with prior to the debut of iTunes and the iPhone respectively. So, is it necessarily far-fetched to suggest that the Californian giant could even become a car manufacturer? That has been the talk over the last few weeks, thanks to a series of reports. Much of the conjecture centers on an article in the Wall Street Journal that has shed considerable light on a supposed electric vehicle project, codenamed 'Titan'. The suggestion is that Apple CEO Tim Cook already gave the nod to plans for an Apple-branded automobile more than a year ago, and that several hundred members of the Cupertino firm's staff are now hard at…

Birdman Washed-up Hollywood actor Riggan Thomson (Michael Keaton), known for playing the superhero Birdman in blockbuster movies several decades earlier, attempts a comeback on Broadway. However, his path is littered with many obstacles - from an egotistical costar (Edward Norton) to nasty critics and his own self-doubt. FIVE FACTS: 1. The full title of the film is Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance). 2. It was co-written, co-produced and directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu. 3. Keaton himself formerly played a superhero - in the Tim Burton Batman films. 4. Except for a few shots in the beginning and end, Birdman appears to be filmed in a single shot. 5. It was filmed in New York City in the spring of 2013. Whiplash Ambitious young jazz drummer Andrew Neiman (Miles…

The grimly gripping thriller “`71” plunges a young, inexperienced British soldier into the mayhem of 1970s Belfast. Private Gary Hook (the up-and-coming “Unbroken” star Jack O’Connell) and his fellow fresh soldiers have little sense of The Troubles, as the North Ireland conflict was called. Given their orders to ship out from England shortly after basic training, they’re assured they’re not leaving the country. But it’s more like another world. Promptly sent onto the burning streets of Belfast in berets, not riot gear, they find themselves tossed into an urban war zone ready to boil. At first the resistance is almost charming: Boys toss bags of urine at them. A clamor grows as women clang trash can lids on the row-house sidewalk. Soon, they’re surrounded by a screaming mob: old and…