Today’s entertainment picks:

Today’s entertainment picks:

v Party on the Plaza, 6 p.m.: The Guilty Pleasures take the stage at 8 p.m. and the HouseBand at 10:30 p.m. On the plaza in front of Buffalo Wild Wings on Central Square, downtown Youngstown; 330-744-2999.

v Small Ships Revue, 6 p.m.: The annual anything-that-floats regatta with an after-party at Quaker Steak and Lube in downtown Sharon, Pa.

v Trumbull County Fair, 10 a.m.: Truck pulls and a performance by David Allen and the Roadwork Band begin at 7 p.m. The fairgrounds are at 899 Everett-Hull Road, Bazetta; 330-637-6010.

v Truck Night, 6 p.m.: Monster truck driven by Valley native Joe Sylvester will put on a show. Yankee Lake, state Route 7, Brookfield; 724-866-3838.

v The Unit Band, 6 p.m.: Excellent R&B-jazz-soul outfit out of Cleveland at Club eXclusive, 15 W. Federal St., Youngstown.

“friday night lights” (8 p.m., nbc): “Friday Night Lights” nears the end of its terrific run with an episode that has Coach Taylor (Kyle Chandler) fretting over budget cuts that could doom his football program. How is he supposed to get his team ready for the playoffs?

tv listings, B6

entertainment news

Singer headlines anti-dropout effort

CINCINNATI

Singer-songwriter John Legend will headline a Procter & Gamble Co. promotion to benefit dropout prevention as part of his broad support of education reform.

The winner of 11 Grammy awards has made commercials that will air ahead of P&G coupon insert booklets with him on the cover with schoolchildren that will be in Sunday newspapers on July 31. The promotion by the Cincinnati-based consumer products giant will include Facebook and other online efforts to raise money for the Communities in Schools organization’s efforts to keep children in school.

Legend has focused much of his charitable work on improving education, which he calls “a civil rights issue for our time.” He said there’s a dropout crisis in some impoverished communities, making it harder to break the cycle of poverty.

He’s also concerned about what he sees as politically motivated efforts to weaken teachers’ unions in his native Ohio and other states.

Child actress in ’36 custody case dies

LOS ANGELES

Edith Fellows, a child actress who was the subject of a famous 1936 custody case, has died. She was 88.

Her daughter, Kathy Fields Lander, tells the Los Angeles Times that Fellows died of natural causes Sunday at the Motion Picture & Television Fund retirement home in Los Angeles.

Fellows’ mother abandoned her as an infant, and she was raised by her grandmother, who brought her to Hollywood. She made about 50 movies in the 1930s, ’40s and ’50s, including the 1936 film “Pennies from Heaven.”

Fellows was 13 when her mother sued for custody. Fellows testified that she wasn’t “used to loving strangers” and remained with her grandmother.

Her childhood earnings were placed in trust, but most later mysteriously vanished.