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Perry, Kravitz at Super Bowl

Katy Perry will team with Lenny Kravitz at the Super Bowl.

Perry said Saturday on NBC’s Baltimore-New England telecast that Kravitz will join her for the halftime show at the Feb. 1 game in Glendale, Ariz.

Perry has dominated the Billboard charts since releasing her debut in 2008, including 10 No. 1 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. She’s currently on her Prismatic World Tour. Kravitz has sold more than 38 million albums worldwide and has several Grammys to his credit.

Producer, indie-film champion Samuel Goldwyn Jr. dies at 88

LOS ANGELES

Samuel Goldwyn Jr., a champion of the independent-film movement and son of one of the founding fathers of Hollywood cinema, has died. He was 88.

Goldwyn’s son told the Los Angeles Times his father died Friday of congestive heart failure.

Goldwyn produced low-budget hits such as “Mystic Pizza” starring Julia Roberts and “Cotton Comes to Harlem” in the 1970s and ’80s. His company was one of the largest indie-film operations. His final production credit was for “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” in 2013.

Filmmaker Francesco Rosi dies

MILAN

Italian director and screenwriter Francesco Rosi, whose films took on corruption in postwar Italy, winning top honors at the Venice and Cannes film festivals, has died. He was 92.

Rosi’s most-famous works include “Hands over the City,” a film about political corruption that won the Golden Lion at Venice in 1963, and “The Mattei Affair,” which dealt with the mysterious death of an oil tycoon. It won the Golden Palm at Cannes in 1972.

Associated Press