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NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� Since the release a year ago of the acclaimed documentary 鈥淭urn Every Page,鈥� Robert Caro has been feeling a bit like a movie star. 鈥淚 walk up Broadway and kids recognize me,鈥� the historian and author of 鈥淭he Power Broker鈥� says.

MOSCOW (AP) 鈥� Russian authorities on Monday added popular detective novelist and dissident Grigory Chkhartishvili 鈥� known under the pen name Boris Akunin 鈥� to its register of 鈥渆xtremists and terrorists.

PARIS (AP) 鈥� The wax figure of actor Gerard Depardieu has been removed from Paris' most famous wax museum, following negative reactions from visitors over allegations about his conduct with women, the museum said Monday.

Before they became synonymous with downtown cool, the Velvet Underground played a multi-band bill at a suburban New Jersey high school in 1965.

Celebrity birthdays for the week of Dec. 24-30: Dec. 24: Actor Grand L. Bush (TV鈥檚 鈥淭he Visitor,鈥� film鈥檚 鈥淒emolition Man鈥�) is 68. Actor Stephanie Hodge (鈥淯nhappily Ever After鈥�) is 67. Bassist-synthesizer player Ian Burden of Human League is 66.

NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� 鈥淲onka鈥� debuted with $39 million in box office sales in U.S. and Canadian theaters over the weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday.

LOS ANGELES (AP) 鈥� Maury Povich received the Daytime Emmys Lifetime Achievement Honor on Saturday from his wife, journalist Connie Chung.

BERLIN (AP) 鈥� The Russian-American writer Masha Gessen received a German literary prize Saturday in a ceremony that was delayed and scaled down in reaction to an article comparing Gaza to Nazi German ghettos.

Australian drummer Colin Burgess, an original member of the hard rock band AC/DC in the early 1970s, has died, the band confirmed on its social media accounts. He was 77.

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) 鈥� Lilian Nabulime hasn鈥檛 forgotten the time in the 1990s when the Ugandan capital had just one commercial art gallery, a small space that emerging artists struggled to get into.