Kennedy Center board votes to add Trump’s name to the building’s facade, Rep. Joyce Beatty and lawyers say

By The Associated Press
August 13, 2026 | 2:27 PM

WASHINGTON (AP) — Kennedy Center board votes to add Trump’s name to the building’s facade, Rep. Joyce Beatty and lawyers say.

Ellen Greene revisits Audrey from ‘Little Shop of Horrors’ for the film’s 40th anniversary

By The Associated Press
August 14, 2026 | 12:12 AM

Ellen Greene can still do a killer Audrey. In conversation, she seamlessly slips in and out of that singular voice — a little breathy, a little squeaky, a little lispy, a little New York — that made her “Little Shop of Horrors” heroine an instant icon. It wasn’t a register she’d planned on hitting at the audition. It just came out of her in the moment, and it stuck. “I didn’t think about it,” Greene, 75, said in a recent interview with The Associated Press. “It was weird, I mean, I don’t know where half of this stuff came from.” Back on tour with ‘Little Shop’

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