Morning Briefing

ENTERTAINMENT

Giving Credit Where It’s Due: The Writers Guild of America, west, on Wednesday restored the credits of seven writers who it deemed were denied recognition because of the Hollywood blacklist of the 1940s and ‘50s. The ruling, affecting six films, brings to 82 the number of films to have their writing credits corrected by the guild. The affected films and writers are: “Luxury Girls” (1953), written by Norma Barzman; “The Magnificent Rebel” (1960), written by Joan Scott; “The Two Headed Spy” (1959), screenplay by Michael Wilson and Alfred Levitt; “El Cid” (1961), with an added screenplay credit for Ben Barzman; “The Prisoner of Zenda” (1952), with an additional dialogue credit for Donald Ogden Stewart; and “Ruthless” (1948), with an added screenplay credit for Alvah Bessie.

Pop Chart: Lauryn Hill’s “The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill” continued its post-Grammy climb on the nation’s sales chart last week by selling an estimated 201,000 copies, according to SoundScan. That moved the album from third place to second. The collection has now sold more than 435,000 copies since winning the album of the year Grammy on Feb. 24, bringing its total sales since its August release to 4.1 million. TLC’s “Fanmail” held onto the top position for the second straight week, selling an estimated 226,000 copies. Controversial rapper Eminem’s debut, “Slim Shady LP,” was third.

Jones Making Progress: Country music singer George Jones, 67, was off a respirator and breathing on his own in a Nashville hospital Wednesday for the first time since being critically injured in a near-fatal car crash Saturday. “It hasn’t been a walk in the park for him and although he improves every day, it’s been a struggle,” his doctor said. Jones, who is still in critical condition, is expected to remain hospitalized through the rest of the month.

QUICK TAKES

Talk-show host Larry King, 64, is a new poppa. His wife, Shawn Southwick-King, 38, gave birth to the couple’s first child, son Chance Armstrong, on Tuesday night. The boy is Southwick-King’s second child and King’s fourth. . . . After the Daytime Emmy nominations are announced this morning, ABC will gather its nominees (another try for Susan Lucci, perhaps?) for a 5 p.m. online chat (at https://www.ABC.com). . . . A new survey of 150 college students at the universities of Michigan and Wisconsin found that one in four had some lingering “fright” effect from a movie or TV show they saw as a child or teenager. Two of the movies to make the most lingering impression were “Jaws” and “Psycho,” as the study found that some who saw the former never went into the ocean again and that others who’d viewed the latter have taken to showering with the door open, just in case.