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Two-time Oscar winner Kevin Spacey, who was acquitted of sex offences by a UK jury, became a household name playing dangerous, darkly charismatic antiheroes in hits from "The Usual Suspects" to "House of Cards".

Anthony Dominick Benedetto was born in Queens to a grocer dad and a seamstress mom into poverty, to the world he became famous as Tony Bennett.

With legions of pink-clad moviegoers swarming theaters, Warner Bros.' The coincidental same-day release of the two starkly different but highly anticipated films -- one following an iconic doll ready to paint the world pink and the other about the scientist who helped invent the atomic bomb -- created a pop-culture phenomenon that transcended the individual marketing for either film.

Tony Bennett, the last in a generation of classic American crooners whose ceaselessly cheery spirit bridged generations to make him a hitmaker across seven decades, died Friday in New York.