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Archie Comics has announced that the company would start offering some of its titles available for digital download in Spanish,The Associated Press reported. In January the company announced that it would offer digital versions of its comics on the same day that the print editions arrive on newsstands. Jon Goldwater,the co-chief executive of Archie said that the next step for Archie,language-wise,was probably Hindi.

Alex Gibney,chronicler of spectacular self-destruction in documentaries like Casino Jack and the Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer,turned his attention to a mostly blameless pariah for his latest film. Catching Hell looks at sports scapegoats,focusing primarily on Steve Bartman,the unlucky Chicago Cubs fan who found infamy when he interfered with a foul ball at a critical moment in a Cubs playoff game in 2003.

Robert B. Parker’s two popular series will continue under two new authors after Parker,the prolific mystery writer died last year at the age of 77. His publisher said the Spenser series,whose hero is a tough Boston private detective,would now be written by Ace Atkins,a crime novelist,and the Jesse Stone series,featuring a former athlete with a drinking problem,would be taken over by Michael Brandman,producer and screenwriter of the Jesse Stone movies on CBS.