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Philadelphia Film Center1412 Chestnut St.Courtesy of the Philadelphia Film Society. By Shara Talia Taylor East Coast film festivals, each focused on different goals for their attendees, have stirred up interest and created opportunities for filmmakers and community members as fall begins. Locally, the 33rd Philadelphia Film Festival, presented by the Philadelphia Film Society, will be…

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Former Atlanta Hawks’ Dikembe Mutombo speaks during a halftime ceremony retiring his number at an NBA basketball game between the Hawks and the Boston Celtics Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2015, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/David Goldman) By Tim Reynolds ASSOCIATED PRESS The finger wag. The enormous smile. The unmistakable voice. Dikembe Mutombo played defense at a level…

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British actress Dame Maggie Smith poses in London on Dec. 16, 2015. Smith, who won an Oscar for “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” in 1969 and won new fans in the 21st century as the dowager Countess of Grantham in “Downton Abbey,” has died at 89. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File) By Jill Lawless ASSOCIATED…

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Ken PagePhoto: Florida Supercon By Mark Kennedy ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Ken Page, a stage and screen actor who starred alongside Beyoncé in “Dreamgirls,” introduced Broadway audiences to Old Deuteronomy in “Cats” and scared generations of kids as the voice of Oogie Boogie, the villain of the 1993 animated holiday film ”The Nightmare Before…

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John Amos poses for a portrait on May 11, 2016, in New York. Amos, who starred as the family patriarch on the hit 1970s sitcom “Good Times” and earned an Emmy nomination for his role in the seminal 1977 miniseries “Roots,” has died. He was 84. (Photo by Amy Sussman/Invision/AP, File) By Beth Harris ASSOCIATED…

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By Constance Garcia-Barrio Manuel Luis Del Fierro, living in his native Mexico, threatened to shoot two slaveholders who had crossed from the U.S. into his nation and entered his home. The kidnappers wanted to whisk away Mathilde Hennes, a Black woman who had fled from slavery, writes Alice L. Baumgartner in “South to Freedom: Runaway…

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In a Feb. 27, 2005 file photo, Sean “P. Diddy” Combs arrives with date, Kim Porter, for the 77th Academy Awards in Los Angeles. Coroner officials say former model and actress Kim Porter died from pneumonia. (AP Photo/Amy Sancetta, File) By Kaitlyn Huamani ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Although it’s a bestseller on Amazon, the…

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Hoda Kotb attends the TV Land screening of “Hot in Cleveland” in New York, Monday, June 14, 2010. (AP Photo/Peter Kramer) By Mark Kennedy ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Hoda Kotb, a fixture at NBC for more than two decades, says she will leave her morning perch on the “Today” show early next year, telling…

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Robert “Kool” Bell, from left, Ronald Khalis Bell, Dennis “DT” Thomas and George Brown attend a ceremony honoring Kool and The Gang with a star on The Hollywood Walk of Fame on Thursday, Oct. 8, 2015, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Rich Fury/Invision/AP) By Mark Kennedy ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — You can call the…

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Tito Jackson, a member of the famed Jackson 5, poses for a portrait in Los Angeles, July 24, 2019, to promote his solo project, a new version of his 2017 song “One Way Street.” (Photo by Mark Von Holden/Invision/AP, File) By Brian P.D. Hannon ASSOCIATED PRESS Tito Jackson, one of the brothers who made up…

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