Names and faces

The Associated Press

Harrison Ford's injury will cause production on Star Wars: Episode VII to be suspended for two weeks. Disney announced Sunday that shooting would be halted for two weeks in August to adjust the production schedule after Ford's injury. The 71-year-old broke his leg in June during filming of the much-anticipated sequel at Pinewood Studios outside London. Disney had said earlier that Ford's injury wouldn't cause any delays. The accident involved a spacecraft door on the Millennium Falcon falling on Ford's leg. His recuperation was expected to take up to two months.

Cats is back -- and now one of the felines raps. Andrew Lloyd Webber announced Monday that his hit musical will return to London's West End in December in a revamped production with a hip-hop flavor. Based on T.S. Eliot's whimsical Old Possum's Book Of Practical Cats, the musical opened in London in 1981, running for 21 years there and 18 years on Broadway. Lloyd Webber said Monday that he had tweaked parts of the show, which has been performed in more than 30 countries. Lloyd Webber said he was making the character of Rum Tum Tugger a rapping street cat because "I've come to the conclusion that ... maybe Eliot was the inventor of rap." It runs at London's Palladium for 12 weeks beginning Dec. 6.

Dolly Parton wants to take an unlikely fan home. Dolly the dog was abandoned after the country music legend's performance at the Glastonbury festival last month. The fluffy white lurcher was found after 150,000 revelers decamped the site in the southwest of England, and it was being fostered Monday by the Happy Landings animal shelter. Parton has pledged to adopt the dog, which staff at the shelter named in her honor. "I will take the dog home to America if nobody claims her," the singer said in a statement. The shelter said in a statement that the dog is a "sweet-natured older lady" and that it is trying to find her owner.

A Section on 07/08/2014

Upcoming Events