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The San Bernardino County Sheriff-Coroner has determined one-time child star Evan Ellingson died of an accidental fentanyl overdose. An autopsy was performed on Monday, November 6 for Ellingson, who was found dead at his Fontana home the day before. His cause of death is listed on the coroner’s website as “accident”.

Longtime lit agent and manager Shari Smiley has died. Smiley passed away Tuesday at age 53. Cause of death is not yet known.

Abigail Breslin is paying tribute to his My Sister’s Keeper co-star Evan Ellingson after news of his death.

Evan Ellingson, a one-time child star, best known for his lead role in the 2009 film My Sister’s Keeper and also for his work on CSI: Miami, has died. Ellingson was found dead Sunday, Nov. 5 at his home in Fontana, CA, the San Bernardino County Sheriff-Coroner’s office confirmed to Deadline. An autopsy is scheduled this morning to determine the cause of death. He was 35.

to TMZ, the former actor died on Sunday, in a sober-living home in San Bernardino County, Calif. The circumstances and cause of death were not made public, but according to the outlet, officials did not suspect foul play.

Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin is one of a group of writers suing the makers of ChatGPT for “systematic theft on a mass scale”.The writers are concerned that the OpenAI artificial intelligence program is using their copyrighted work without legal permission.As Associated Press reports, other writers involved in the suit include the American novelists John Grisham, Jodi Picoult and Jonathan Franzen.In the papers filed Tuesday in federal court in New York, the collective alleged that there have been “flagrant and harmful infringements” of their registered copyrights and that ChatGPT relies upon “systematic theft on a mass scale”.“It is imperative that we stop this theft in its tracks or we will destroy our incredible literary culture, which feeds many other creative industries in the US,” said Mary Rasenberger, CEO of the Authors Guild, who have organised the lawsuit.“Great books are generally written by those who spend their careers and, indeed, their lives, learning and perfecting their crafts.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor OpenAI’s ChatGPT is the target of a major new lawsuit, alleging the company illegally copied the copyrighted works of authors to train the artificial-intelligence robot. Led by the Authors Guild, a New York-based professional organization for published writers, a group of 17 writers, including George R.R. Martin, John Grisham, Jodi Picoult, George Saunders and Jonathan Franzen, joined the proposed class-action lawsuit against OpenAI.

EXCLUSIVE: Dynamic Television is developing adaptations of Jodi Picoult and Mario Giordano novels in Germany and lining up an ambitious French drama series about Concorde. Company chiefs Dan March and Klaus Zimmerman revealed the projects in an exclusive interview ahead of Dynamic’s tenth anniversary.

Famed author Jodi Picoult, 56, stunned fans this week when she revealed in a TikTok video how to properly pronounce her last name.The native Long Islander has published more than two dozen novels, including “My Sister’s Keeper,” which was adapted into the 2009 hit film of the same name, starring Cameron Diaz and Abigail Breslin.But her fame hasn’t helped with the pronunciation of her name.“Hey there, it’s Jodi,” Picoult says in the 34-second clip, which has been checked out by nearly a million viewers in just two days.“I hear that since I joined TikTok, there has been a little bit of discussion about how to pronounce my name.”The author noted, “You all get Jodi right, but you’re not too sure about the last half of it.”Then came the plot twist. She declared her last name is pronounced “pico,” as in pico de gallo, holding up a jar of the salsa to emphasize her point.

Axios confirmed to Vanity Fair that Montgomery is no longer with the company but did not elaborate. The news website is based in Arlington, Virginia. It was launched in 2017 by former Politico journalists Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen and Roy Schwartz.Perhaps he should have considered being a journalist, not an activist or propagandist.The email sent from the Florida Department of Education Press Office billed the upcoming DeSantis-hosted event as “exposing the diversity equity and inclusion scam in higher education.” DeSantis has previously called his state “where woke goes to die.” A recent ban of more than 80 titles in Martin County schools that included works by Jodi Picoult, James Patterson and Toni Morrison went into effect earlier this month.

Gordon Cox Theater EditorMost people know Jodi Picoult as the busy author of more than 25 bestselling books, including “My Sister’s Keeper,” “Small Great Things” and “The Pact.” But more recently, she’s collaborated on a musical based one of her own novels — and the resulting show, “Between the Lines,” is just the first of several stage projects she’s got in the works.Listen to this week’s “Stagecraft” podcast below:On the new episode of “Stagecraft,” Variety‘s theater podcast, the author explained why she can’t get enough of making musicals. “It’s been lovely to understand the joy of collaborating as a writer,” she said.