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Daughter will get Lucille Ball’s awards

LOS ANGELES

An auction house selling Lucille Ball memorabilia says it is returning the actress’s lifetime achievement awards to her daughter.

Heritage Auction Galleries says a deal reached Saturday will return the awards to Lucie Arnaz Luckinbill, Ball’s daughter with first husband Desi Arnaz. A sale of dozens of other Ball-related memorabilia also happened Saturday. Items up for bid included a Rolls Royce and love letters to second husband Gary Morton.

Polanski appears at Swiss jazz fest

MONTREUX, Switzerland

Film director Roman Polanski, free after nine months of detention, arrived Saturday at the Montreux Jazz Festival in his first public appearance since being released last week from house arrest.

Polanski, 76, arrived Saturday evening in a sport-utility vehicle with tinted windows. When he emerged, he brushed his fingers through his hair — a trademark gesture — then was ushered into an elevator. Security personnel protected him from an eager crush of photographers.