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Isabel Allende, 84, won Spain’s €1 million Premio Planeta by submitting a sequel to The House of the Spirits under the name Luz Ventura, with the title Los que faltan. She told those at the ceremony she had never entered a contest before because she didn’t want to come last (The Guardian).
Ana Mota, a senior at South Grand Prairie High in Texas, was cast as Seymour in Little Shop of Horrors until the school board swapped in Frozen, citing the 2025 anti-DEI law, Senate Bill 12. Nobody has explained how a girl playing a male role violates it (Downstage Center, a theatre Substack).
TikTok permanently suspended the ad account of Bleecker Street, distributor of Alex Gibney’s documentary Musk, for “political content” just as the film expanded to 470 screens. It restored the account Sunday morning and called the suspension an error (The Hollywood Reporter).
Billy Joel, 77, is auctioning more than 70 of his motorcycles because his neurologist says every show he gives is like getting a concussion (The Hollywood Reporter).
Catharina van Hemessen, a sixteenth-century Flemish painter, signed her work, which kept it from being filed under her father’s name (The New York Times).
NBC’s The Sound of Music Live drew more than 18 million viewers in 2013, against an internal hope of 10 million (Variety).
All of today’s stories below.
