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Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Chernow is known for writing massive biographies of the country's most enduring figures, including Ulysses S. Grant and Alexander Hamilton.

NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� If you're intimidated by the idea of making ice cream at home, just think of it as making soup. That's advice from Tyler Malek of Salt & Straw, the innovative gourmet ice cream maker known for its ever-changing lick-able treats.

CANNES, France (AP) 鈥� The Cannes Film Festival red carpet is perhaps the most rigidly controlled red carpet in the world. Now, the festival has added a new stipulation: no nudity.

Nowhere is the border-crossing nature of cinema more evident than the Cannes Film Festival , which kicks off Tuesday in the wake of U.S. President Donald Trump鈥檚 vow to enact tariffs on international films.

Vancouver filmmaker Zachary Lipovsky says it took innovative thinking 鈥� and a fake decapitation 鈥� to land the job directing 鈥淔inal Destination: Bloodlines.

PARIS (AP) 鈥� The ring gleamed in Instagram posts. So did the diamond necklace and the luxury Paris address. For Kim Kardashian , sharing online was second nature 鈥� an extension of her fame. But in the early hours of Oct.

NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� Poet Marie Howe, one of this year's winners of the Pulitzer Prize, says being a writer is often less a career than a vocation.

Celebrity birthdays for the week of May 18-24: May 18: Actor Candice Azzara (鈥矯aroline in the City,鈥� 鈥砇hoda鈥�) is 84. Bluegrass singer-guitarist Rodney Dillard of The Dillards is 83. Keyboardist Rick Wakeman of Yes is 76.

LOS ANGELES (AP) 鈥� The complex effects of personal trauma have not traditionally been the stuff of sci-fi and fantasy. They tend to get in the way of the quest. 鈥淕ame of Thrones鈥� made a meal of it.

MILAN (AP) 鈥� South Korean conductor Myung-whun Chung was named on Monday the new musical director of the famed Milan opera house, Teatro alla Scala , the first Asian to hold the position.