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Actor George Maharis has died after contracting hepatitis, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Maharis was 94. AP entertainment correspondent Margie Szaroleta has a look at his life. ((opens with music))

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George Maharis, star of TV's 'Route 66' in the 1960s, dies at 94
By ANDREW DALTON - AP Entertainment Writer
Sun,05/28/23-6:10PM , 92 Reads
LOS ANGELES (AP) — George Maharis, a stage-trained actor with rough-hewn good looks who became an icon to American youth in the 1960s as he cruised the country in a Corvette convertible in the hit television series "Route 66," has died.
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AP correspondent Margie Szaroleta reports on Box Office.

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'The Little Mermaid' makes box office splash with $95.5 million opening
By ANDREW DALTON - AP Entertainment Writer
Sun,05/28/23-1:04PM , 200 Reads
LOS ANGELES (AP) — “ The Little Mermaid ” made moviegoers want to be under the sea on Memorial Day weekend.
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Leonard Whiting, left, and Olivia Hussey arrive at the screening of "The Producers" at the 2018 TCM Classic Film Festival Opening Night at the TCL Chinese Theatre on April 26, 2018, in Los Angeles. A Los Angeles County judge on Thursday, May 25, 2023, said she will dismiss a lawsuit that the stars, Whiting and Hussey, of 1968's “Romeo and Juliet" filed over the film's nude scene, which they said involved them being subjected to fraud, and sexual abuse and harassment when they were in their teens. (Photo by Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP, File)

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'Romeo & Juliet' stars' lawsuit over 1968 film's teen nude scene tossed
By ANDREW DALTON - AP Entertainment Writer
Thu,05/25/23-4:31PM , 137 Reads
A Los Angeles County judge on Thursday said she will dismiss a lawsuit that the stars of 1968's “Romeo and Juliet" filed over the film's nude scene, finding that their depiction could not be considered child
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Danny Masterson and his wife Bijou Phillips arrive for closing arguments in his second rape trial, Tuesday, May 16, 2023, in Los Angeles. Masterson is charged with raping three women at his Los Angeles home between 2001 and 2003. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

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Danny Masterson used drugging, Scientology to get away with rape, prosecutor says
By ANDREW DALTON - AP Entertainment Writer
Mon,05/15/23-11:53PM , 45 Reads
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Danny Masterson drugged women’s drinks so he could rape them, then relied on his prominence in the Church of Scientology to avoid consequences for years, a prosecutor told jurors Tuesday in closing arguments at the actor’s
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