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The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air star Alfonso Ribeiro is suing the creators of Fortnite and NBA 2K for using his famous dance in two of the most popular video games out right now. In separate lawsuits filed Monday in federal court in California, Alfonso Ribeiro alleges that Fortnite? maker, Epic Games and 2K Sports creator, Take-Two Interactive used his dance dubbed "The Carlton Dance" without permission or credit. Source

NEW YORK - Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Alice Walker and The New York Times are drawing fire after she praised an author who critics say expresses anti-Semitism and is a conspiracy theorist. In an interview in Sunday's "By The Book" column, the 74-year-old author of "The Color Purple" said David Icke's 1995 book, "And The Truth Shall Set You Free," is on her nightstand. Source

Penny Marshall, the endearingly graceless actress with the thick Bronx accent who starred on the TV show Laverne & Shirley before becoming a pioneering film director with hits including Big and A League of Their Own, has died at 75, her publicist said on Tuesday. Source

This image released by Starpix shows singer Art Garfunkel, left, and actress-director Penny Marshall at a book party for Marshall's memoir, "My Mother Was Nuts," Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2012, at Monkey Bar in New York. (AP Photo/Starpix, Dave Allocca) Source

NEW YORK -- Penny Marshall, who starred in "Laverne & Shirley" before becoming one of the top-grossing female directors in Hollywood, has died. She was 75. Marshall's publicist, Michelle Bega, said Marshall died in her Los Angeles home on Monday due to complications from diabetes. Source

NEW YORK -- Sandra Bullock has an impromptu idea for how to solve the Oscars host problem, and it involves a lot of improvisation. The Oscar-winning actress told The Associated Press Monday at a screening of her new film "Bird Box " that she thinks random actors should be pulled out of the audience and read what's on the teleprompter to cover a segment of the show. Source

BUCHAREST, Romania -- Anca Pop, a Romanian-Canadian singer-songwriter, has died after her car plunged into the Danube River. She was 34. Emergency authorities identified her body after divers found her car late Monday in southwestern Romania. Source

According to website Pollstar.com, the recent tour by the singer of "Shape of You" generated the highest sales in 2018. Ed Sheeran sold 4,860,482 tickers for 94 concerts in 53 cities. And the bottom line? The tidy sum of 432 million dollars. Source

LOS ANGELES -- Canada is no longer in the running for best foreign language film at the upcoming Oscars. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has released the nine films that will advance to the next round of voting in the category and Canada's entry is not among them. Source

VANCOUVER -- "Roma" has racked up another honour, this time from the Vancouver Film Critics Circle. The organization composed of Vancouver-based writers and critics named Alfonso Cuaron's black-and-white drama, about a live-in housekeeper for a family in Mexico City, best picture and best foreign language film on Monday. Source