The Cricket's Daily 3: Swift, Shelton top CMA nominations
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Here's what's happening today in pop culture:
• Taylor Swift and Blake Shelton lead the nominations for the Country Music Association Awards, with five each — including going head-to-head for Entertainer of the Year. [Entertainment Weekly]
• Summer 2015 is now more full of superheroes, with Disney moving its Marvel action movie "Ant-Man" to July 31. Also that summer: "Avengers: Age of Ultron" and the Superman/Batman mash-up with Henry Cavill and Ben Affleck. [The Hollywood Reporter]
• Cal Worthington, the longtime car salesman whose ads featuring "my dog Spot" (which was always a different animal) made him an icon of late-night TV in southern California, has died at the age of 92. [USA Today]