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NEW YORK — Museums prepared to shut their doors, the opera was silenced, lights dimmed on Broadway, big gatherings were banned and the subway was shunned as the largest city in the United States wound down Thursday amid a rise in coronavirus cases.

EDMONTON — Canadian country music star Brett Kissel's benefit concert in Edmonton has raised $57,000 for victims of last week's tornadoes in Tennessee.

1. “House of Earth and Blood” by Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury) 2. “Long Range” by C.J. Box (G.P. Putnam's Sons) 3. “Chain of Gold” by Cassandra Clare (Margaret K. McElderberry Books) 4. “Find Your Path” by Carrie Underwood (Dey Street Books) 5.

PARIS — French-American filmmaker and actress Tonie Marshall, the only female director to ever win a Cesar award — France's equivalent of the Oscars — has died. She was 68. France's Equalities Ministry Thursday confirmed the death “with sadness.

Justin Timberlake and various artists, “Trolls: World Tour (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)” (RCA Records) Even if you refused to see even a minute of 2016's animated film “Trolls,” you've likely heard it.

VANCOUVER — Warner Bros. Television says the Vancouver-based production of teen drama "Riverdale" has been halted until further notice.

NEW YORK — The new coronavirus has reached Broadway, but the shows on the Great White Way are scheduled to go on as planned.

NEW YORK — Harvey Weinstein was sentenced Wednesday to 23 years in prison after breaking his courtroom silence with a rambling plea for mercy in which he professed to be "totally confused" by the #MeToo movement that spelled the Hollywood producer's

LOS ANGELES — The annual movie exhibition and trade show CinemaCon has been cancelled in Las Vegas due to coronavirus, scuttling one of Hollywood's premier hype machines.

SYDNEY, Australia — Tom Hanks and his wife Rita Wilson are isolated in stable condition in an Australian hospital Thursday after contracting the new coronavirus, the actor and Australian officials said.