Paul Rochester (1938-2020), member of Jets’ Super Bowl-winning team

NEW YORK -- Johnny Mandel, the Oscar- and Grammy-winning composer, arranger and musician who worked on albums by Frank Sinatra, Natalie Cole and many others and whose songwriting credits included “The Shadow of Your Smile” and the theme from the film and TV show “M(asterisk)A(asterisk)S(asterisk)H,” has died. He was 94.

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmEXCLUSIVE: HBO won a wild auction that sources said saw 17 bidders vying for The Vanishing Half, the novel by Brit Bennett that is currently atop The New York Times bestseller list.

Ellise Shafer editorMilton Glaser, the renowned graphic designer who created the iconic “I Heart NY” logo, died on June 26, which was his 91st birthday. According to The New York Times, his wife, Shirley Glaser, said a stroke was the cause of death, although he also suffered from renal failure.Glaser is well-known for his 1966 psychedelic poster of Bob Dylan and for designing the logos for DC Comics, Brooklyn Brewery and Stony Brook University.

A member of the New York City Council is poised to become the first LGBTQ Latino person of African descent elected to Congress after he appears to have won his primary on Tuesday.

Bill Simmons on Friday addressed on his podcast the backlash over the lack of diversity at The Ringer which was highlighted in a recent New York Times storythat detailed newsroom concern. The sports personality made clear he felt the digital media company he founded in 2016 which sold to Spotify this year had not done “well enough” with staffing diversity.

Ramin Setoodeh New York Bureau ChiefAfter Shonda Rhimes created “Scandal,” a long list of actresses — including Taraji P.

Ramin Setoodeh New York Bureau ChiefChris Evans and Paul Rudd stepped out of the Marvel universe and into the world of streaming television this year. On the Apple TV Plus limited series “Defending Jacob,” Evans inhabits the guilt and fear of a suburban district attorney who will stop at nothing to save his teenage son from what he believes to be a wrongful murder charge.

endorsed by the Human Rights Campaign in his bid for the party’s nomination for New York’s 17th Congressional District, defeated seven other candidates, leading his closest challenger by a 2-1 margin.Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, there are several thousand mail-in votes yet to be counted in the district. But as of Wednesday morning, Jones led the field with 45% of the vote, ahead of former federal prosecutor Adam Schleifer, who won 21% of the vote.

NEW YORK -- At the request of co-creator Tina Fey, four episodes of the comedy “30 Rock” are being removed from circulation because they featured characters performing in blackface. The series aired on NBC from 2006 to 2013, but episodes are still being shown in television syndication and on streaming services including Hulu, Amazon Prime, iTunes and Peacock.

NEW YORK -- The author and educator Danielle Allen has received a $500,000 prize from the Library of Congress. Allen has won John W.

Dave Grohl, Elvis Costello and Paul McCartney have teamed up for the most unlikely cover.

JAY-Z and Beyonce are doing their part to guard against transmission of coronavirus. The power couple flew in via private jet to New York’s East Hampton airport on June 19 and wore their protective face masks even while getting off their plane.

Matt Grobar Assistant Editor, AwardslineWith Amazon’s Making the Cut, Heidi Klum and Tim Gunn set out to create an all-new kind of competition series that would be reflective of the fashion industry, as it is today.Hosted and executive produced by the Project Runway alums, the show would center on a diverse, global batch of designers competing in New York, Paris and Tokyo to bring their brands to a level they’d never before experienced.For the longtime creative partners, part of what made Making

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorHBO has set Coastal Elites, a comic satire special centered around five characters from New York to Los Angeles coping with politics and the pandemic. Bette Midler (Hello Dolly, The Rose), Kaitlyn Dever (Unbelievable), Dan Levy (Schitt’s Creek), Sarah Paulson (The People v.

The actor revealed that he is part of the remake of the 1940 film during an interview with ACE Universe, reports dailymail.co.uk."I'm playing Jiminy Cricket in Guillermo del Toro's version of ‘Pinocchio'. That I had started working on before I left for New York, so some of that is recorded.

NEW YORK -- Charles King's “Gods of the Upper Air,” a group biography on such groundbreaking anthropologists as Franz Boas, Margaret Mead and Zora Neale Hurston, has received a prominent history award. Frances Fitzgerald won the first-ever Tony Horwitz Prize, established after the celebrated historian and journalist died last year.

Judas Priest‘s ‘Breaking The Law’ is being played over stolen police radios by protesters in New York, according to reports.Protests have been taking place across the world following the death of George Floyd, an African American man who was killed in Minneapolis when a white police officer knelt on his neck as he lay on the ground during an arrest.A number of well-known people in the world of music and entertainment have since spoken out and given support to the Black Lives Matter