Bobby Sherman, teen idol in the 1960s and '70s, and later a CPR teacher, dies at 81

Former teen idol Bobby Sherman has died at 81. His winsome smile and fashionable shaggy mop top helped make him into a star in the 1960s and ’70s with bubblegum pop like “Little Woman” and “Julie, Do Ya Love Me.” His wife, Brigitte Poublon, announced the death Tuesday and family friend John Stamos posted her message on Instagram. Sherman revealed he had Stage 4 cancer earlier this year. After the limelight moved on, Sherman became a certified medical emergency technician and instructor for the Los Angeles Police Department, teaching police recruits first aid and CPR. He donated his salary.

With ‘F1,’ rising star Damson Idris enters Hollywood’s fast lane

Actor Damson Idris' career is about to hit turbo speed. This week, audiences globally will get a chance to see him go toe-to-toe with Brad Pitt in the big-budget summer movie “F1,” set in the competitive world of Formula One racing. It opens in theaters Friday. The 33-year-old British Nigerian actor plays a hotshot rookie driver who is forced to team up with Pitt's washed-up veteran in the film. Idris is best known for his six seasons starring in the FX series “Snowfall,” which ended as he was gearing up to do “F1.” He also made waves at the Met Gala in May.

Barbra Streisand finds 'The Secret of Life' on her new duets album with Bob Dylan and Paul McCartney

For her new duets album “The Secret of Life: Partners, Volume 2,” Barbra Streisand works with legends Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney and James Taylor, current hitmakers Hozier and Sam Smith and relative newcomers like Laufey. Streisand had to overcome a voice that was “shot,” worries about the world and the challenges that come with working with the world's most famous artists. That includes Dylan, who first posed a collaboration more than five decades ago. The collection reflects her new “stop and smell the roses” era, one where the EGOT winner can find fulfillment in what she has done and even what she hasn't. The album releases Friday.

Secrets and longing surface as Saint Laurent menswear parades at Pinault’s art palace

PARIS (AP) — It-designer Anthony Vaccarello has sent out a Saint Laurent men’s collection that felt both sun-drenched and haunted, set not just in the heart of Paris, but drifting somewhere between the city and the legendary queer enclave of Fire Island in New York. Staged at the Bourse de Commerce, the grand art palace and crown jewel of Kering’s Pinault family in the French capital, the show paid tribute to Yves Saint Laurent’s own history of escape and reinvention. Star power in the front row, including Francis Ford Coppola, Rami Malek, Aaron and Sam Taylor-Johnson, and house icon Betty Catroux, underscored the label’s magnetic pull.

Q&A: Pulitzer Prize winner Robin Givhan chronicles Virgil Abloh's rise to fashion fame

NEW YORK (AP) — For her latest book, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Robin Givhan takes a deep dive into the fame and legacy surrounding fashion disruptor Virgil Abloh. Abloh was the first Black creative director of menswear at Louis Vuitton. He rose to fashion notoriety with little fashion training but managed to captivate the industry and develop a large and loyal following from his fashion fans. Givhan's book “Make It Ours: Crashing the Gates of Culture with Virgil Abloh” releases Tuesday. She shares how social media played a role in Abloh's career and how influences from architecture to skateboarding inspired his design outlook. Abloh died at 41 in 2021.

Pint-size pioneer 'Dora the Explorer' celebrates her 25th anniversary

NEW YORK (AP) — Twenty-five years ago, a little girl with a bob haircut appeared on our TVs, speaking a mix of English and Spanish, with a spunky, can-do spirit. This was, of course, “Dora the Explorer,” the first Latina to lead a major cartoon series and the girl who helped spearhead the rise of multicultural children’s programming in the U.S. on her way to becoming a cultural phenomenon. Nickelodeon is celebrating Dora’s 25th anniversary with the feature-length live-action movie “Dora and the Search of Sol Dorado,” a third season of the rebooted animated series “Dora,” the podcast Dora’s Mermaid Adventures, an album of songs and plenty of toys and apparel.

Life on the other side: Refugees from 'old media' flock to the promise of working for themselves

NEW YORK (AP) — A new world of podcasts, newsletters and websites has expanded media in recent years, and provided a lifeline to legacy media refugees who wanted — or were forced to — strike out on their own. Megyn Kelly, Jennifer Rubin, Bari Weiss and Mehdi Hasan are among the barons of this new world with sites like the Contrarian and Zeteo, fueled by the explosive growth of YouTube and Substack in providing a landing place for new ideas. For journalists going on their own, the chance to be their own boss is a plus. Fair warning: experts say to succeed you'll have to work very hard, be adaptable and hope the public doesn't reach a saturation point.

Mick Ralphs, founding member of Bad Company and Mott the Hoople, dies at 81

Mick Ralphs, the singer, songwriter, guitarist and founding member of the classic British rock bands Bad Company and Mott the Hoople, has died. A statement posted to the band’s official website Monday announced Ralphs’ death at age 81. Ralphs had a stroke days after his final performance with Bad Company in 2016, and had been bedridden ever since. Ralphs is set to become a member of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Bad Company in November. He wrote Bad Company's classic hit “Can't Get Enough” and co-wrote “Feel Like Makin' Love” with singer Paul Rodgers.

Book Review: ‘The Tiny Things Are Heavier’ is a reflection on young adulthood and migration

Esther Ifesinachi Okonkwo’s “The Tiny Things Are Heavier” is a reflection on young adulthood, migration, cultural misunderstanding and family relationships, says Associated Press reviewer Anita Snow. The debut novel follows the lonesome and homesick Nigerian graduate student Sommy as she tries to fit in as a newcomer in Iowa. Sommy is haunted by guilt over leaving home after her brother attempts suicide. She engages in a complicated relationship with her Nigerian roommate before falling for Bryan, a biracial man with a Nigerian father. The pair travel to Nigeria, where Sommy hopes to repair her relationship with her brother and Bryan plans to look for his father. An unexpected tragedy changes everything.

Anthropic wins ruling on AI training in copyright lawsuit but must face trial on pirated books

In a test case for the artificial intelligence industry, a federal judge has ruled that AI company Anthropic didn’t break the law by training its chatbot Claude on millions of copyrighted books. But the company is still on the hook and could now go to trial over how it acquired those books by downloading them from online “shadow libraries” of pirated copies. U.S. District Judge William Alsup of San Francisco said in a ruling filed late Monday that the AI system’s distilling from thousands of written works to be able to produce its own passages of text qualified as “fair use” under U.S. copyright law because it was “quintessentially transformative.”