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LOS ANGELES (AP) — The producer of this month’s Emmy Awards says Robin Williams will receive a “meaningful” remembrance during the ceremony.

BOSTON (AP) — Former Boston crime boss James “Whitey” Bulger is appealing the federal conviction that sent him to prison for life last year, arguing that he was unable to fully present his defense.

Robin Williams was sober and suffering from early stages of Parkinson’s disease as well as anxiety and depression at the time of his apparent suicide, the actor’s wife said in a statement on Thursday. Susan Schneider said the actor “was not yet ready to share publicly” his struggles with Parkinson’s Disease.

Broadway theaters will dim their marquees on Friday evening in memory of Tony Award winner and iconic Hollywood screen actress Lauren Bacall, who died on Tuesday at the age of 89. Bacall, whose film roles and romance and marriage to actor Humphrey Bogart made her a legend during Hollywood’s Golden Age, died in New York, where she had lived for several decades. The Broadway League, which represents producers and theaters, said the marquees will be dimmed for a minute in her honor. “Lauren Bacall had a distinct presence on stage and screen during a career that spanned decades,” said Charlotte St. Martin, executive director of The Broadway League.

NEW YORK (AP) — Lauren Bacall had one condition when the Fashion Institute of Technology wrote recently to ask if it could turn hundreds of personal garments she donated into an exhibition about her style.

It was almost 20 years ago, and actor Jeff Bridges was searching for a movie project that would be a family affair — one in which he could direct his father, Lloyd, and that his children, then around middle-school …