Monique van Vooren, Actress in 'Tarzan and the She-Devil' and 'Batman,' Dies at 92

NEW YORK (AP) — Novelist Charles Portis, a favorite among critics and writers for such shaggy dog stories as "Norwood" and "Gringos" and a bounty for Hollywood whose droll, bloody Western "True Grit" was a best-seller twice adapted into Oscar nominated films, died Monday at age 86.

Actor Lynn Cohen, best known for her role as Magda on HBO's Sex and the City, died Friday morning, her representative confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter. She was 86.Cohen began her acting career in regional theater, appearing on New York stages since the late 1970s.

Frederick Koch, who kept a low profile as an arts benefactor rather than joining the family oil business that became Koch Industries, has died, according to the New York Times. He was 86.His friend and longtime assistant John Olsen told the Times Koch died at his Manhattan home on Wednesday of heart failure.Koch was the oldest of four sons of Fred Koch of Wichita, Kansas.

Ron McLarty, the familiar character actor known for his turns onSpenser for Hire,Cop RockandLaw & Orderwho became a published author thanks to a rave from Stephen King, has died. He was 72.McLarty suffered from dementia since 2014 and died Saturday night in New York, his wife, actress Kate Skinner, toldThe Hollywood Reporter.

Diplo, né Thomas Wesley Pentz, arrived to the annual amfAR Fashion Week Gala in New York on Wednesday night in something of a daze. “I just landed.

Tributes to the DJ and music manager have been pouring in from across the hip-hop world

She claimed that they spent the night together in New York in 1977

NEW YORK — A costume designer and former actress told jurors in Harvey Weinstein’s rape trial on Wednesday that the former producer groped her under her skirt and later propositioned her for sex in exchange for movie contracts.

Harriet Frank Jr., the two-time Oscar nominee forHudandNorma Raewho partnered with her husband, the late Irving Ravetch, to form one of the great screenwriting teams in Hollywood history, has died. She was 96.Frank died Tuesday at her home in Los Angeles, her nephew, Michael Frank, told The New York Times.Frank and Ravetch worked on 17 features together, including eight directed by Martin Ritt over a 32-year span and three that were adapted from William Faulkner novels.

Harriet Frank Jr., who collaborated with her husband, Irving Ravetch, on the Oscar-nominated screenplays for “Norma Rae” and “Hud,” died on Tuesday at her home in Los Angeles. She was 96.

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The Birds of Prey actress Rosie Perez has testified in court in New York, backing the claim made by Annabella Sciorra that Harvey Weinstein raped her. The story goes back to the year 1993, when on a night Rosie Perez spoke to Annabella Sciorra if she wanted to hang out.

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