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CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australian singer-songwriter Nick Cave has confirmed the death of his son Jethro Lazenby at age 31. “With much sadness, I can confirm that my son, Jethro, has passed away,” the frontman of rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds said in a statement Tuesday. “We would be grateful for family privacy at this time,” Cave added. A fashion model, rapper, actor and photographer, Lazenby was Cave’s son with model Beau Lazenby and was born in Melbourne in 1991. He was the eldest of Cave’s four children, all boys. One of Cave’s twin sons with his current wife, Susie Cave, died in an accidental fall from a cliff near Brighton, England, in 2015. Arthur Cave had taken the psychedelic drug LSD before he fell at age 15. Nick Cave confirmed the death of his son on Tuesday...

Screenshot: YouTube Remember when Westworld season three ended and most fans of the series (including io9) kind of shrugged a big “huh” and moved on to the rest of the hellscape that was 2020? The series hopes to make up for underwhelming you with its fourth season—arriving next month, with a first trailer here today. Set to the melancholy strains of Lou Reed’s “Perfect Day,” it starts on that Western landscape we knew so well during seasons one and two—though, yes, that sleek, ultra-modern cityscape from season three also gets its due. And if the hints in this trailer are to be believed, might that city be a new Delos Destination in the making? That trailer doesn’t give us much in the way of plot. But it does give us a crash course in who’ll be returning for more: Thandiwe Newton...

Placeholder while article actions load An iconic 1964 silk-screen portrait of Marilyn Monroe by Andy Warhol sold for a little more than $195 million in New York on Monday night, the highest price ever paid for an American artwork at auction. Nearly 60 years after the film star’s death, “Shot Sage Blue Marilyn” outdid a previous high of $110.5 million, paid in 2017 for a skull painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat. It also became the second-most expensive artwork to ever sell at auction, according to the auction house Christie’s — behind Leonardo da Vinci’s “Salvator Mundi,” which fetched more than $450 million in 2017. The Warhol portrait, described by Christie’s art expert Alex Rotter as “one of the greatest paintings of all time,” sold in about four minutes of bidding to dealer Larry Gag...

In 2010, deep into his full-length debut Thank Me Later and teetering on the precipice of life-altering pop superstardom, the artist born Aubrey Drake Graham found himself in dire need of some good advice, or at least Jay-Z thought so. Drake, here’s how they gon’ come at youWith silly rap feuds, tryin’ to distract youIn disguise, in the form of a favorThe Barzini meeting, watch for the traitors This came amid the melancholy bombast of “Light Up,” in which Drake mused, “I keep thinkin’, how young can you die from old age?” before Jay added, “I once was / Cool as the Fonz was / But these bright lights turned me to a monster.” (Later in 2010, Jay-Z would helpfully list all the monsters those bright lights had turned him into, and everyone would love it.) Life-altering pop superstard...

Jack Kehler, best known for his role in “The Big Lebowski,” has died aged 75. His son, Eddie Kehler, revealed the heartbreaking news to Deadline on Monday, explaining his beloved father died of complications of leukemia. The actor, who starred as The Dude’s landlord Marty in the 1998 classic, died at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles on Saturday. Kehler’s glittering TV career kickstarted in 1983 when he landed the role of a gas station attendant in “Strange Invaders.” Although it was a small role, it did eventually lead him to star as Sergeant Cooper in the 1986 miniseries “Fresno.” Kehler starred in the 1991 hit movie “Point Break” alongside Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze, and later secured a part in Lawrence Kasdan’s crime drama “Grand Ca...