The Cricket's Daily 3: Jennifer Lawrence is making serious money

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Here's what's happening today in pop culture:

• Jennifer Lawrence is the highest-paid actress in Hollywood for the second year in a row — taking in $46 million, mostly from the finale of "The Hunger Games" franchise. [The Huffington Post]

• The American Film Institute has put on hold a planned screening of the Sundance-winning "The Birth of a Nation," after information resurfaced about a 1999 rape accusation against filmmaker Nate Parker. [The Hollywood Reporter]

• Notable deaths: Actor Steven Hill, best known as D.A. Adam Schiff for the first decade of "Law & Order," was 94; and jazz harmonica legend Toots Thielemens, whose wide-ranging career included playing on the original "Sesame Street" theme song, was 94. [Variety, NPR]