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WGA eases credit standard for screenplays LOS ANGELES, (UPI) -- The Writers Guild of America said its members have approved support for a new uniform standard for giving credit on non-original screenplays. The Los Angeles Times reported that means producers and directors should have an easier...

Jazz maverick Bill Dixon dead at 87 BENNINGTON, Vt., (UPI) -- Bill Dixon, a leader of the avant-garde jazz scene in the 1960s, died at his home in Vermont at the age of 87, a spokesman said. Dixon, a trumpeter who founded the short-lived Jazz Composers Guild, died Wednesday in North...