NEW YORK, May 5 (UPI) -- James Gandolfini, Jeff Daniels, Jane Fonda, Marcia Gay Harden and Janet McTeer were among Broadway stars nominated for Tony Awards in New York Tuesday.

NEW YORK, April 20 (UPI) -- The Outer Critics Circle has nominated "God of Carnage," "Irena's Vow," "Reasons to Be Pretty" and "33 Variations" for its outstanding new Broadway play prize.

LOS ANGELES, April 12 (UPI) -- Roscoe Lee Browne, whose deep, modulated voice led to roles on a Shakespearean stage and as narrator of the barnyard "Babe" films, died in Los Angeles at 81.

NEW YORK, Dec. 14 (UPI) -- Ahmet Ertegun, the Turkish diplomat's son who shaped popular music in the United States by founding Atlantic Records, died Thursday of a brain injury at 83.

PITTSBURGH, Oct. 2 (UPI) -- Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright August Wilson has died of cancer at 60.

Traditional jazz bass player Pops Foster was born this day in 1892 in McCall, La. He worked with the best in jazz throughout his career, including Fate Marable, Kid Ory, Louis Armstrong, Sidney Bechet, Mezz Mezzrow and Earl Hines. Pops Foster died in 1969

Today's birthdays include Bruce Hornsby, of Bruce Hornsby and the Range, who was born in 1954 (age 48); and Joseph Sumner, Sting's son, in 1976 (age 26).

Tenor saxophonist Billy Mitchell was born this day in 1926 in Kansas City, Mo. He succeeded Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis in one of the tenor chairs in the Count Basie Orchestra in 1957 before becoming a busy free-lance musician and leader in his own right.

(Nov. 23)