Writer AE Hotchner, friend to Hemingway, Newman, dead at 102

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Though she owns much larger, custom-built mansion in L.A.’s celeb-heavy Toluca Lake community, tax records indicate Melissa McCarthy has nonetheless added to her San Fernando Valley property portfolio with the $2.4 million purchase of a newly constructed residence in the increasingly expensive Valley Village area.

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A.E. Hotchner, a well-traveled author, playwright and gadabout whose street smarts and famous pals led to a loving but litigated memoir of Ernest Hemingway, business adventures with Paul Newman and a book about his Depression-era childhood that became a Steven Soderbergh film, died Saturday.

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The 44th Hong Kong International Film Festival has been postponed to August due to the global coronavirus outbreak, organizers of the event said Thursday. Earlier the same day Hong Kong's Filmart, Asia's largest film and television content market, also announced that it would be shifting its dates to August.Originally slated to run March 25-28, the 23rd edition of Filmart is now scheduled to be held Aug.

The Hong Kong International Film Festival will be postponed from its scheduled date in March and early April. The decision was a response to the growing fear of the novel coronavirus which has spread from mainland China to reach more than 20 countries and territories so far.

By Tom Grater

Hong Kong FilMart, Asia’s largest film and TV trade fair, will be postponed from its scheduled date in March to a new slot in August. The decision was a response to the growing fear of the novel coronavirus which has spread from mainland China to reach more than 20 countries and territories so far.