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Jim O’Heir, author of “Welcome to Pawnee: Stories of Friendship, Waffles, and Parks and Recreation.” (HarperCollins) On the Shelf ‘Welcome to Pawnee’ By Jim O’HeirWilliam Morrow: 272 pages, $30If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. Jim O’Heir had a good career … Read more

Sad news from the world of television, as Paul Teal has passed away at the age of 35. Teal had a recurring role on the popular teen drama One Tree Hill, which ran on the WB and the CW from 2003 to 2012. News of his passing comes to us courtesy of his fiancee, Emilia … Read more

Sonny Bono and Cher at an awards show. ( From Cher) On the shelf Cher: The Memoir, Part One Dey Street Books, 432 pages, $31If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. The young woman in the black-and-white photograph peers at the … Read more

“Out of Oklahoma” singer Lainey Wilson isn’t from the OK state, but she knows a thing or two about uncomfortably going ho-o-o-o-o-o-ome, as she sings in the summer action movie “Twisters.” “I didn’t live out a lot of the things that Kate did in the movie,” she says of the onetime tornado chaser played by … Read more

Elle Macpherson, author of “Elle: Life, Lessons, and Learning to Trust Yourself.” (Adam Whitehead) On the Shelf ‘Elle’ By Elle MacphersonBenBella Books: 384 pages, $30If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. Even Elle Macpherson, a model who would come to be … Read more

“Emilia Pérez” is not what most would conjure when thinking of a movie musical. And therein lies its superpower. Its writer-director, Jacques Audiard, chose to tell the story of a brutal Mexican drug cartel lord (played by Karla Sofía Gascón) who undergoes profound changes in midlife — including gender-reassignment surgery — as a romantic, comic, … Read more

Cynthia Erivo defies more than gravity It’s an autumn day in New York, which prompts Cynthia Erivo to start singing the opening lines of the jazz standard of that name because, as I learn through our hour together, it does not take much prodding to get Erivo to break out in song. She serenades me … Read more

(Disney / Pixar) Kelsey Mann was scanning some old photos when he came to a series of pictures from his childhood birthdays and was struck by what he saw. “I was 5, and it’s my birthday, and I’m sitting there in front of my cake … I think it was the smile and the joy … Read more

There is a scene in “Dag,” an NBC comedy scheduled to premiere in the fall, that finds Delta Burke, as First Lady Judith Whitman, alone at an elegantly laid-out table, waiting to meet with her husband. The dining room is empty except for a handful of secret agents. As the minutes tick by, it becomes … Read more

A tattoo of scissors follows a seam along Olivia Jackson’s upper arm, below which the stunt performer’s arm is amputated. It is one way the former South African model brings levity to her life as she battles chronic pain that some days could only be met with tears and drug-induced sleep. Four years ago, the … Read more