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Partner chides ‘Tattoo’ marketing

STOCKHOLM

The longtime partner of the late Swedish crime writer Stieg Larsson says he wouldn’t have approved of an H&M clothing line and other merchandising linked to this week’s release of a Hollywood adaptation of his hit novel, “The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.”

Eva Gabrielsson told The Associated Press on Monday that Larsson would have used the buzz around his work to call attention to violence and discrimination against women, not to market products.

Gabrielsson and Larsson weren’t married and he didn’t leave a will, so it was Larsson’s brother and father who inherited the rights to his works when he died at age 50 in 2004. The movie opens today in the U.S.

McCartney releasing album of standards

NEW YORK

Paul McCartney is releasing an album of standards — plus two new songs of his own.

The former Beatle announced Monday that his new disc will be out Feb. 7. It doesn’t have a title yet. He’s already streaming one song, “My Valentine,” on his website.

McCartney says he and John Lennon were inspired in their own writing by some of the standards. Some of them he first heard when his father performed them at home on piano.

Eric Clapton and Stevie Wonder make appearances on the disc, which was recorded with Diana Krall and her band.

Met Opera performer is out of hospital

NEW YORK

Mezzo-soprano Wendy White is out of the hospital after falling over the weekend during a show at New York’s Metropolitan Opera.

She fell about 8 feet from a platform above the stage during Saturday’s performance of Charles Gounod’s “Faust.”

White suffered bruises but no broken bones.

Opera spokesman Peter Clark tells The Wall Street Journal that a hinge in a plank gave way as White was performing the role of Marthe.

Vindicator wire reports