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French New Wave filmmaker Agnes Varda is being remembered by Hollywood as not just a legendary, influential director and pioneering voice for independent cinema, but also as a charming presence to all those she came in contact with.

“For my shooting star, wherever you are,” the French street artist Jr, who collaborated with Varda on 2017’s Oscar-nominated documentary “Faces Places,” wrote on Twitter.

“Work and life were undeniably fused for this legend. She lived Fully for every moment of those 90 damn years,” director Barry Jenkins wrote on Twitter.

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“I seriously doubt that Agnès Varda ever followed in anyone else’s footsteps, in any corner of her life or her art … which were one in the same. She charted and walked her own path each step of the way, she and her camera,” Martin Scorsese said in a statement to TheWrap.

Ranking Roger, lead vocalist for British ska punk band the Beat – known as the English Beat in North America – and founding member of General Public, died on Tuesday. He was 56. The news was confirmed in a statement on the Beat’s official Facebook page. The cause of death has not been disclosed. In January, he revealed that he had been diagnosed with brain tumors and lung cancer.

“He fought & fought & fought, Roger was a fighter,” the statement reads. “Sadly Roger passed away a few hours ago peacefully at his home surrounded by family.

What's old is new again, but did The English Beat ever go out of style? Shout! Factory is releasing the popular '80s Brit band's entire catalog (plus previously unreleased nuggets) in a new box set, The Complete Beat, out July 10, and co-founding member Dave Wakeling took time to talk to me about the timeless sound of the band, why they broke up, his jealousy over the success of Fine Young Cannibals, and the ultimate fan concert he hopes to stage.

"The Beat finished when it was meant to. We promised each other that if it ever became incredibly hard work, or we felt like we were going through the motions, or we felt we were doing anything that we didn't want to do, [that would be it]," Wakeling, now 56, said before a recent live gig in Aspen, Co. "Sad as it was, the right thing happened, and I'm pleased because now 30 years later we only made three lps, but they're...