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One of the most iconic actresses associated with the French New Wave film movement, Anna Karina, has died at the age of 79. Karina’s agent confirmed the news on social media, noting the cause was cancer. As the muse of Jean-Luc Godard (who would later become her first husband), Karina starred in several of his seminal films throughout the 1960s, including The Little Soldier, A Woman Is a Woman, Vivre sa vie, Band of Outsiders, and Pierrot le fou.

Christopher Tolkien’s life work was closely identified with that of his father. He helped edit and publish much of the science fiction and fantasy writer’s work after J.R.R. Tolkien died in 1973. Among the books the younger Tolkien worked on were The Silmarillion, The Children Of Hurin, and other texts that flesh out the complex world his father created.