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McConaughey gets engaged

LOS ANGELES

Matthew McConaughey is engaged to marry his longtime girlfriend, Camila Alves.

The 42-year-old actor proposed to the Brazilian model on Christmas Day. He announced the move in a tweet that included a photo of the couple kissing. McConaughey’s publicist confirmed the engagement Tuesday.

McConaughey and Alves have two children together, son Levi and daughter Vida.

His film credits include “We Are Marshall” and “The Lincoln Lawyer.”

John Legend engaged

NEW YORK

John Legend will no longer be a bachelor: He’s engaged.

The singer’s publicist said Tuesday that Legend proposed to his girlfriend, model Chrissy Teigen, recently. No more details are being provided.

Legend has won nine Grammys and released four albums.

Painter Frankenthaler dies

NEW YORK

Helen Frankenthaler, an abstract painter known for her bold, lyrical use of color who led a postwar art movement that would later be termed Color Field painting, died Tuesday at her home in Connecticut, her nephew said. She was 83.

One of Frankenthaler’s most famous works is “Mountains and Sea,” a 1952 painting at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., which she created by pouring thinned paint directly onto raw, unprimed canvas laid on the studio floor.

She was awarded the National Medal of Arts in 2002.

Channing’s husband dies

RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif.

Carol Channing’s husband, a onetime classmate whom she married some 70 years later, has died on the eve of his 92nd birthday.

A family spokesman says former rancher and local political leader Harry Kullijian collapsed Monday at the couple’s Rancho Mirage, Calif., home after suffering an aneurysm. He later died at a nearby hospital.

He and Channing wed in 2004.

Vindicator wire reports