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■ Trump fatigue? No such thing in comic Stephen Colbert’s world. “He is president of the United States,” Colbert said Saturday. “There is no escaping it. It’s like having oxygen fatigue.” Colbert and his CBS Late Show vaulted to the top of the late-night comedy heap with his sharp, topical humor about President Donald Trump. Now he’s expanding into the world of animation with a Showtime series, Our Cartoon President, that debuts later this month. The series is an outgrowth of an occasional feature on Late Show. While the latenight show finds comedy out of day-to-day news, Our Cartoon President seeks to develop characters of the president, his family and administration figures. Each episode takes two to three months to write, animate and voice, although there is flexibility built in for some rewrites based on new events, the creators said. The rapid comings and goings of figures in the administration presents an ongoing challenge for top executive R.J. Fried and his team. “We’re not investing a lot of animation time into Rex Tillerson at this point,” Colbert said.

■ The fight over the body and possessions of apocalyptic cult leader Charles Manson has fragmented into at least three camps competing over an estate that could cash in on songs he wrote that were used by The Beach Boys and Guns N’ Roses. Manson, 83, died in November nearly a half-century after he orchestrated the 1969 killings of pregnant actress Sharon Tate and eight other people. A Los Angeles Superior Court judge today will try to sort out at least two conflicting wills and claims by a purported son, grandson and pen pal who all seek control of an estate that includes commercial rights to his name, image and mementos that can fetch thousands of dollars from “murderabilia” collectors. “We think Manson’s worth more than anyone realizes,” said Mike Smith, a music agent for a man who claims Manson fathered him during an orgy. The hearing seeks to name an attorney to administer Manson’s estate on behalf of purported grandson Jason Freeman, who claims to be the rightful next of kin. Court documents show Freeman is the son of the late Charles Manson Jr. and the grandson of Charles Manson and his first wife, Rosalie Willis. That lineage is disputed by Matt Lentz, a Los Angeles-area musician who goes by the name Matthew Roberts. Lentz plans to file a will today that Manson purportedly signed in January 2017 and gave to friend and memorabilia collector Ben Gurecki. It names Gurecki as executor and Lentz as beneficiary. If valid, it could supersede a 2002 will filed in Kern County by longtime Manson pen pal Michael Channels that disinherits Manson’s natural born children and names him as executor and heir.

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