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Celebrity birthdays for the week of March 3-9: March 3: Singer-guitarist Mike Pender of The Searchers is 83. Movie producer-director George Miller (“Mad Max,” “Babe”) is 79. Actor Hattie Winston (“Becker,” “Rugrats”) is 79. Singer Jennifer Warnes is 77. Actor-director Tim Kazurinsky (“Police Academy” films) is 74. Musician Robyn Hitchcock is 71. Actor Robert Gossett (“Major Crimes,” “The Closer”) is …

Celebrity birthdays for the week of Feb. 25-March 2: Feb. 25: Actor Ann McCrea (“The Donna Reed Show”) is 93. Actor Tom Courtenay (“Dr. Zhivago”) is 87. CBS newsman Bob Schieffer is 87. Actor Diane Baker is 86. Actor Karen Grassle (“Little House on the Prairie”) is 82. Talk show host Sally Jessy Raphael is 82. Writer Jack Handey (“Saturday …

NEW YORK (AP) — Daisy Ridley doesn’t want audiences to be misled by the title of her new film, “Sometimes I Think About Dying.” Her character, Fran, is, actually, quite funny. Fran is a woman content in her mostly solitary life, apart from her co-workers in her chatty office. But when an attraction to a new colleague challenges her to …

LOS ANGELES (AP) — In a pre-Grammy event, Mariah Carey used the Recording Academy stage to speak about fighting against conforming to certain music industry standards in an effort to create her music that would eventually appeal to the masses. “I was not encouraged to focus on my love for Black music,” Carey remarked Thursday night at the academy’s Black …