A big-money poker ring involving NBA figures indicted this week for allegedly cheating unsuspecting rich players echoes decades of films and TV shows, with supposed Mafia involvement adding to the drama.

Greek actress and recording artist Irene Papas has died at age 93.

Dean Stockwell, a top Hollywood child actor who gained new success in middle age, garnering an Oscar nomination for “Married to the Mob” and Emmy nominations for “Quantum Leap,” has died.

Publicist Bobby Zarem has died at 84.

“The Midnight Sky,” which Clooney directed and stars in, is an apocalyptic sci-fi drama with some striking solitude. Debuting Wednesday on Netflix, “The Midnight Sky,” based on Lily Brooks-Dalton's novel “Good Morning, Midnight," is Clooney's seventh film as director and his biggest scaled production yet. ___AP: You finished shooting “The Midnight Sky” in February, right before the pandemic began. AP: What drew you to “The Midnight Sky”? I know people who are older -- older than me, even -- who live with real regret.

FILE - In this Sept. 28, 1981 file photo, Actress Rhonda Fleming poses for a photo in Hollywood, Calif. Actress Rhonda Fleming, the fiery redhead who appeared with Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Charlton Heston, Ronald Reagan and other film stars of the 1940s and 1950s, has died, Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2020. She was 97. (AP Photo/Wally Fong)

(AP Photo/Wally Fong)LOS ANGELES – Actress Rhonda Fleming, the fiery redhead who appeared with Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Charlton Heston, Ronald Reagan and other film stars of the 1940s and 1950s, has died. Fleming died Wednesday in Santa Monica, California, assistant Carla Sapon told The Associated Press. Legend or not, at 19 Louis was awarded a six-month contract at the studio of David O. Selznick and a new name: Rhonda Fleming. I’m much more fulfilled today than at any time in my life.”After Fleming’s sister, Beverly Engel, died of cancer in 1991, Fleming and her husband established the Rhonda Fleming Mann Resource Center for Women with Cancer at the UCLA Medical Center. A couple of years after Mann died, Fleming married for a sixth time, to Derol W. Carlson, who died in 2017.

CNN(CNN) - John Fogerty has pulled out of the upcoming 50th anniversary of the Woodstock festival, according to a report by Variety. According to Variety, representatives for Fogerty -- who performed at the original Woodstock festival as the frontman of Creedence Clearwater Revival -- said in a statement that the artist "knows where he will be for the anniversary weekend of Woodstock." The festival, scheduled for August 16 to 18 in New York state, has been plagued by setbacks. Back in April, a marketing firm that was financing the festival opted to pull out, with executives telling festival organizers they were canceling the event. Last month, festival officials announced the scheduled venue for Woodstock 50, Watkins Glen International, had pulled out.