Monster Mash: Breaking news and headlines

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--Funeral services are planned this morning at 9:30 at Our Lady of the Angels Cathedral for artist Robert Graham, who died Dec. 27 at age 70.

--Some producers of Broadway’s ‘Speed-the-Plow’ reportedly seek an investigation and consider a suit against the play’s sushi-tainted former star Jeremy Piven.

--Mayor Villaraigosa launches LA Arts Month to draw attention to the arts, which generates ‘$100 billion in revenue for the area each year.’

--On Thursday, PBS will air ‘Cyrano de Bergerac,’ starring Kevin Kline and Jennifer Garner and staged by David Leveaux.

--Arts patron Betty Freeman dies at 87. Mark Swed recalls her support of young composers. Tyler Green shares memories of a tour of her art collection.

-- Conductor Daniel Barenboim calls off two concerts in Qatar and Egypt.

--Adam Shankman, who directed the film version of ‘Hairspray,’ is tapped to take on a film version of ‘Bye Bye Birdie.’

--The World Monuments Fund joins with Iraq’s State Board of Antiquities to launch a management and conservation plan for Babylon.

--Lisa Fung