The Cricket's Daily 3: 'American Idol's' swan song

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Here's what is happening in pop culture:

• Fox will give "American Idol" one final season next year, with plenty of self-adoration. [Entertainment Weekly]

• "Avengers: Age of Ultron" earned $77.2 million in its second weekend of release, topping the box-office chart again. The Reese Witherspoon/Sofia Vergara comedy "Hot Pursuit" took in a disappointing $13.3 million. [Box Office Mojo]

• Elizabeth Wilson, an acclaimed character actress with a long career on stage and screen, died at the age of 94. Among her notable film roles: As Dustin Hoffman's mother in "The Graduate," Dabney Coleman's second-in-command in "9 to 5," and one of the villains in "The Addams Family." [The Hollywood Reporter]