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    Rome renames music hall after Oscar-winner Ennio Morricone

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    ROME (AP) --

    Rome's city council voted on Friday to rename one of its concert halls after Oscar-winning composer Ennio Morricone, who died last week in the Italian capital. 

    The Music Park Auditorium will now be called the Ennio Morricone Auditorium. 

    Morricone won a lifetime achievement Academy Award in 2007 as well as an Oscar in 2016 for the score he wrote for "The Hateful Eight." 

    At Rome's City Hall ceremony, director Giuseppe Tornatore, whose "Cinema Paradiso" won an Oscar as best foreign language film and featured Morricone's sentimental music, struggled against tears as he paid tribute to the composer.

    Tornatore recalled how Morricone liked to say that "in silence, one finds the key to music … the silences, the intervals." Referring to the 91-year-old composer's death on July 6, Tornatore added: "So, maybe the silence that he initiated a few days ago is what will be the hardest for us to listen to, because it will be a silence that's too, too long."

    Among Morricone's memorable music for movies was the coyote-howl theme for the iconic Spaghetti Western "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" and the haunting songs in the epic "Once Upon A Time In America." Both films were directed by his former elementary school classmate, Sergio Leone.

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    Supreme Court Allows Multibillion-Dollar Class Action Lawsuit To Proceed Against Meta

    Friday, November 22, 2024

    The Supreme Court is allowing a multibillion-dollar class action investors' lawsuit to proceed against Facebook parent Meta, stemming from the privacy scandal involving the Cambridge Analytica political consulting firm.

    The justices heard arguments in November in Meta's bid to shut down the lawsuit. On Friday, they decided that they were wrong to take up the case in the first place.

    The high court dismissed the company's appeal, leaving in place an appellate ruling allowing the case to go forward.

    Investors allege that Meta did not fully disclose the risks that Facebook users' personal information would be misused by Cambridge Analytica, a firm that supported Donald Trump 's first successful Republican presidential campaign in 2016.

    Inadequacy of the disclosures led to two significant price drops in the price of the company's shares in 2018, after the public learned about the extent of the privacy scandal, the investors say.

    Meta spokesman Andy Stone said the company was disappointed by the court's action. "The plaintiff's claims are baseless and we will continue to defend ourselves as this case is considered by the District Court," Stone said in an emailed statement.

    Meta already has paid a $5.1 billion fine and reached a $725 million privacy settlement with users.

    Cambridge Analytica had ties to Trump political strategist Steve Bannon. It had paid a Facebook app developer for access to the personal information of about 87 million Facebook users. That data was then used to target U.S. voters during the 2016 campaign.

    The lawsuit is one of two high court cases involving class-action lawsuits against tech companies. The justices also are wrestling with whether to shut down a class action against Nvidia.... Read More

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