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Taylor Swift is going on tour in 2018 to support her new reputation album, including an Aug. 4 show at Toronto’s Rogers Centre. Swift announced 27 shows stretching through October. Fans will have to sign up for Swift’s novel and controversial ticket-allocation system Taylor Swift Tix to see the shows, with tickets going on sale to the general public Dec. 13.

Sean Penn is writing a novel about a “divorced, disillusioned man.” Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff will come out March 27. The novel builds upon an audiobook from 2016, narrated by one Pappy Pariah, Penn’s pseudonym, and promoted by the usually press-shy actor.

Director Spike Lee asked the audience at the Virginia Film Festival on the weekend to observe a moment of silence to remember the Charlottesville woman killed after a car plowed through a group of protesters during a white nationalist rally on Aug. 12. Lee presented his documentary I Can’t Breathe, about Eric Garner’s 2014 death in police custody, and his 1992 documentary 4 Little Girls, about a 1963 church bombing in Birmingham, Ala.

Irish rock singer Bob Geldof says he is returning his Freedom of the City of Dublin honour because it is also held by Burmese leader Aung San Suu Kyi, accused of complicity in what he and others, including the United Nations, call “ethnic cleansing” of Rohingya Muslims in the Asian nation. Geldof said Suu Kyi’s “association with our city shames us all and we should have no truck with it, even by default.”

Country music star Carrie Underwood is recuperating from injuries from a fall on steps outside her home. Underwood was treated in hospital for a broken wrist, cuts and abrasions. She missed a benefit concert Sunday in Nashville for victims of the Oct. 1 Las Vegas shooting and hurricanes in Florida, Texas, Puerto Rico and the Caribbean. Star staff, wire services