Quick Takes: Iowa family is selling ‘Field of Dreams’ farm

The owners of the Iowa site where “Field of Dreams” was filmed have put the place up for sale.

Don and Becky Lansing say they love the land, which has been in Don Lansing’s family for more than a century, but they think it’s time to give it up. The asking price for the 193-acre property is $5.4 million.

The movie, released in 1989 with Kevin Costner as its star, was based on the book “Shoeless Joe” by W.P. Kinsella. The site has been a popular tourist destination ever since, with the family maintaining the baseball diamond built by Universal Studios.

—Associated Press

‘Ragtime’ Tony bid withdrawn

Tony Award officials say a nomination for “Ragtime” designer Santo Loquasto has been withdrawn because his work too closely resembles the 1998 production of the Broadway show.

Loquasto had been one of five candidates announced last week for the best costume design in a musical category.

Tony Award Productions said in a statement released Thursday that there would be no substitute nominee for Loquasto, a three-time Tony winner. It said Tony rules forbid works that “substantially duplicate” previous productions.

—Associated Press

Music too nice for Lil Wayne

Lil Wayne’s efforts to keep up the beat behind bars have gotten him in trouble in jail, an official said Thursday.

The Grammy Award-winning rapper faces potential discipline after jail officers found a charger and headphones for a digital music player stashed in his cell Monday, city Correction Department spokesman Stephen Morello said. Lil Wayne is serving a yearlong sentence after pleading guilty to a gun charge.

The items are considered contraband, as inmates can listen to music only on radios and headphones sold at the jail commissary. Lil Wayne’s lawyer, Stacey Richman, had no immediate comment Thursday.

—Associated Press

Gee whiskers, ‘Annie’ to end

Come this summer there will be no more tomorrows for “Annie.”

After 85 years, Tribune Media Services announced Thursday that it would cease syndication of the comic strip featuring the iconic redheaded orphan on Sunday, June 13. Instead, the company will bring Annie into the Internet Age by pursuing new audiences for her in digital media and entertainment, such as mobile readers and graphic novels.

“Little Orphan Annie” made its newspaper debut on Aug. 5, 1924, first written and illustrated by creator Harold Gray. The strip later was renamed simply “Annie,” telling tales of the spunky orphan adopted by Daddy Warbucks and joined by her lovable dog, Sandy. Over decades she has become the center of a radio program, Broadway musical and movies.

—Associated Press

$32.6 million for a Warhol

A purple Andy Warhol portrait of himself looking wild-haired and gaunt fetched $32.6 million at a New York auction Wednesday night, twice the work’s presale estimate.

The 9-square-foot “Self-Portrait,” completed in 1986, a year before the artist’s death, was offered by fashion designer Tom Ford and went to an unidentified buyer. The silkscreened ink and acrylic paint on canvas was the priciest item of Sotheby’s 53-lot sale, which brought in $190 million, against the company’s presale estimate of $161.8 million. Just three lots were unsold.

“Self Portrait” ranks among the three most-expensive works by Warhol sold at auction and is the costliest of his later works. The record was the $71.1 million paid in 2007 in New York for his 1963 “Green Car Crash.”

—Bloomberg News

Cuban singer gets U.S. visa

The U.S. government has granted a visa for Cuban folk icon Silvio Rodriguez ahead of a June 4 concert at Carnegie Hall.

Rodriguez tried to travel to New York last May for a tribute to Pete Seeger but officials didn’t respond fast enough.

It will be Rodriguez’s first U.S. tour since 1979, when he visited several cities. The 63-year-old is a staunch defender of the Castro government.

—Associated Press

Finally

Immigration: The Spanish-language Univision TV network plans a town hall-style meeting Friday to discuss immigration issues in the wake of Arizona’s passage of a law that some critics fear could lead to racial profiling. It will air at 10 p.m.