(AP) – For "Star Wars" lovers, new entertainment is a little less
far, far away — Lucasfilm announced three new live-action
films in the franchise Friday.

The news, which includes the return of Daisy Ridley as Rey in
one of the films, was revealed at Star Wars Celebration Europe
2023 in London by Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy and
also on the Star Wars website. Directing the movies will be
James Mangold, Dave Filoni and Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy.

Kathleen Kennedy

Jack Nicklaus, just two years removed from dominating
amateur golf as a student at The Ohio State University,
bested a star-studded field of the game’s greatest
professionals to capture his first Masters Tournament
title on this day in history, April 7, 1963.

The victory sparked an enduring love affair between the
gallery at Augusta National in Georgia, America’s most
celebrated golf course, and the sport’s most celebrated
player. 

Arnold Palmer, left, helping victorious Jack Nicklaus with
green blazer at Augusta National Golf Course, Augusta,
Georgia, April 7, 1963. 

Jack William Nicklaus, nicknamed The Golden Bear, turned
83 on January 21.

John Wayne (Marion Robert Morrison)
(May 26, 1907 – June 11, 1979)

On April 7, 1970, the legendary actor John Wayne won his first
—and only—acting Academy Award, for his star turn in the
director Henry Hathaway’s Western True Grit.

Wayne appeared in some 150 movies over the course of his long
and storied career. He established his tough, rugged, uniquely
American screen persona most vividly in the many acclaimed
films he made for the directors John Ford and Howard Hawks
from the late 1940s into the early 1960s. He earned his first
Oscar nomination, in the Best Actor category, for Sands of Iwo
Jima (1949). The Alamo (1960), which Wayne produced, directed
and  starred in, earned a Best Picture nomination.

1969