NEW YORK, Aug. 12 (UPI) -- Jazz composer and saxophonist Ornette Coleman has been selected recipient of the largest prize in the arts field, the $250,000 Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize, it was announced Thursday.

Today is Saturday, Feb. 28, the 59th day of 2004 with 307 to follow.

Today is Tuesday, Oct. 14, the 287th day of 2003 with 78 to follow.

LOS ANGELES, April 30 (UPI) -- There is talk, but nothing certain yet, of a fourth "Austin Powers" movie -- but Michael York is game for another go as Powers' boss, Basil Exposition.

Today is Friday, Feb. 28, the 59th day of 2003 with 306 to follow.

NEW YORK, Jan. 20 (UPI) -- Al Hirschfeld, whose caricatures of the great and near-great of the theater were as entertaining as trying to find his daughter's name scribbled among the lines, died Monday. He was 99.

Today's birthdays include Nico of the Velvet Underground, who was born in 1938; Bachman-Turner-Overdrive bassist Fred Turner in 1943 (age 59); Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead in 1947 (age 55); Rainbow keyboardist Tony Carey in 1953 (age 49); Gary Kemp of Sp

Today is Monday, Oct. 14, the 287th day of 2002 with 78 to follow.

The weekly UPI Today in Music package for Oct. 12-18.