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An investigation is underway into the deaths of Oscar-winner Gene Hackman and his wife Betsy Arakawa, after they were found dead in different rooms of their Santa Fe home, authorities said Thursday. Hackman, 95, was found dead Wednesday in the entryway and Arakawa, 63, was found dead in a bathroom next to a space heater, according to a search warrant affidavit from Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office detectives. Police said they found the body of a German shepherd in the bathroom closet. Two other dogs were found alive on the property.Sheriff Adam Mendoza said on Friday that it appeared “just based on their body and other evidence on the body, it appears several days, possibly even a up to a couple weeks” had passed before their bodies were found.The New Mexico Gas Co. tested gas lines at the...

It takes a keen eye to imagine an actor, who is out of circulation, in the role of a conniving godman. But when casting director Shruti Mahajan read the script of Aashram’s opening season in 2019, she instinctively knew that Bobby Deol, who at the time was beginning his second innings in Bollywood, would be the perfect fit. As the crime drama’s third season drops online, the casting director remembers that roping in Deol was a gamble. Shruti Mahajan She recalls, “Prakash-ji [Jha, director] wanted someone completely unexpected for Baba Nirala. Bobby Deol’s casting was a bold, make-or-break decision. It could have been a masterstroke or a complete misfire. The role demanded an authoritative presence and a hidden vulnerability, and Bobby had the perfect mix. His hunger for a strong comeback...

Katy Perry is ready to “shoot across the sky” like a firework and blast off into space on a Blue Origin rocket. The E.T. singer will join journalist Gayle King and billionaire Jeff Bezos’ fiancée, Lauren Sánchez, on the New Shepard rocket, a 59-foot tall (18-metre) suborbital spacecraft, marking the first all-female flight crew to head to space in more than six decades.They are set to head to the Kármán line, the internationally recognized boundary of space, 100 kilometres above sea level, the Bezos-owned Blue Origin said in a statement on Feb. 27.Perry and her crew, including NASA rocket scientist Aisha Bowe, bioastronautics researcher Amanda Nguyen and movie producer Kerianne Flynn, will experience a few minutes of microgravity before returning to Earth via parachute-assisted landing in ...