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The European Film Academy has revealed the nominations in the animated feature film category of the European Film Awards.

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Fuzjko Hemming, an acclaimed pianist inextricably linked to Franz Liszt’s “La Campanella,” which shot her to stardom in Japan, died from pancreatic cancer on April 21. She was 92. Hemming ...

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Born Sept. 27, 1924, Powell helped set the style for jazz piano after WWII. While earlier pianists played busy bass patterns, he helped establish a more fragmented, punctuating role for the left hand.