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Tom Jones, creator of longest-running musical ‘The Fantasticks,’ dies at 95
Lore Noto, the original producer of the off-Broadway musical “The Fantasticks,” is flanked by the play’s authors Tom Jones, left, and Harvey Schmidt, Sunday, Jan. 13, 2002, at the tiny Sullivan Street Playhouse in New York’s Greenwich Village. Jones, the lyricist, director and writer of “The Fantasticks,” the longest-running musical in history, which made its 1960 debut when Dwight D. Eisenhower was still president and closed in 2017, died Friday, Aug. 11, 2023. He was 95. (AP Photo/Tina Fineberg, File)
Tom Jones, the lyricist, director and writer of “The Fantasticks,” the longest-running musical in history, has died. He was 95.
Jones died Friday, Aug. 11, at his home in Sharon, Connecticut, according to Dan Shaheen, a co-producer of “The Fantasticks,” who worked with Jones since the 1980s. The cause was cancer.
Palace to work with Google, Meta, Tiktok, X in fight vs fake news
Media and information literacy (MIL) may soon be included in school subjects, while social media websites may soon work with the government to fight fake news, especially among the youth.
These are among the measures the Presidential Communications Office (PCO) will undertake as part of its MIL campaign with government agencies and social media companies.
PADS surpasses 2019 gold medal count in IDBF world championships
The Philippine Accessible Disability Services Inc. (PADS) Dragon Boat Team harvested three more gold medals in the penultimate of the International Dragon Boat Federation (IDBF) World Dragon Boat Racing Championships in Pattaya, Thailand, on August 12, 2023.
This Cebu-based dragon boat team comprised of paddlers, who are persons with disability (PWD), ruled the 200-meters para dragon mixed 1 and 2, and the standard para-dragon mixed categories last Saturday which hiked their gold medal count to five, along with three silver medals, and five bronzes.
Manny Pacquiao continues to lean toward a ring comeback
It seems that the longer Manny Pacquiao stays retired, the more he wants to come back.
In a recent interview, Pacquiao doubled down on the idea of making his official boxing return after announcing his retirement back in September 2021.
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