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Benedict Cumberbatch will portray folk legend Pete Seeger alongside Timothée Chalamet’s Bob Dylan in the upcoming biopic A Complete Unknown. James Mangold revealed Cumberbatch’s casting at the Cannes Film Festival, where the director’s Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny premiered earlier this week, Deadline reports. The Dylan biopic — …

NEWPORT, RHODE ISLAND — A decade ago, Pete Seeger gave the organizers of the Newport Folk Festival a mission statement. “If you’re going to have the torch, I need to know you’re going to continue to give the people who need a voice the voice,” Jay Sweet, the long-running festival’s …