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Tom Hanks to reunite with an old buddy on Broadway
Tom Hanks' Broadway debut will include an old buddy — former "Bosom Buddies" co-star Peter Scolari will share the stage with the Oscar winner.
Storm volunteers mingle with stars at Glamour fest
Sandra Kyong Bradbury was star struck. She had just spied Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg a few feet away. "How can you top that?" asked ...
Obama, Palin and Jobs join Bartlett's club
So much has changed since we last heard from "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations," a decade ago. Barack Obama was a state legislator. Sarah Palin was ...
Tom Hanks to make his Broadway debut next year
Tom Hanks will play a gutsy New York City newspaper columnist when he makes his debut on Broadway in the spring. Producers of Nora Ephron's play ...
'Girls' star Lena Dunham gets 7-figure book deal
"Girls" creator Lena Dunham has a seven-figure book deal with Random House. The 26-year-old Dunham, who received Emmy nominations as producer, ...
Meryl Streep donates $1M to The Public Theater
Meryl Streep has donated $1 million to The Public Theater in honor of both its late founder, Joseph Papp, and her friend, the author Nora Ephron.
2 Nora Ephron collections coming back in print
Two of Nora Ephron's early essay collections are coming back into print. Vintage Books announced Wednesday that "Crazy Salad" and "Scribble, Scribble" ...
Life-threatening illness: To tell or not to tell?
In 1976, as a 24-year-old grad student, Samira Beckwith was diagnosed with the thing people still whispered about: cancer. She was in and out of the ...
'I Love Lucy' actress Doris Singleton dead at 92
Actress Doris Singleton, who played one of Lucy and Ricky Ricardo's lesser-known neighbors on "I Love Lucy," has died. She was 92. Lucie Arnaz, ...
Producer 'committed' to staging Nora Ephron play
A lead producer of Nora Ephron's new play, "Lucky Guy," says he is "committed" to getting her biography of a newspaper columnist on a Broadway stage ...
Son says Nora Ephron service planned for July 9
A service for Nora Ephron has been scheduled for next month. Her son, Jacob Bernstein, said on Wednesday details about the July 9 service are still ...
In honoring Ephron, here are 10 of her best lines
Nora Ephron's characters were highly verbal and hyper-analytical. They had a head for the absurd and a heart for romance. But above all, they were ...
Celebrities react to the death of Nora Ephron
Celebrities share their reaction to the death Tuesday of author, essayist and filmmaker Nora Ephron: — "Nora was a person whose gifts of mind, amply ...
Writer-filmmaker Nora Ephron dies at 71
Among the injustices about the death of Nora Ephron is that she isn't around to tell us about it. "She was so, so alive," says her friend Carrie ...
Nora Ephron, writer-filmmaker, dies at 71
Among the injustices about the death of Nora Ephron is that she isn't around to tell us about it. "She was so, so alive," says her friend Carrie ...
Moments we remember in Nora Ephron films
Some memorable scenes from the films of Nora Ephron, who died Tuesday at age 71: "When Harry Met Sally" (1989): The scene in Katz's Delicatessen when ...
Actors, writers react to Ephron's death on Twitter
Actors and writers react to the death of writer-director Nora Ephron on Tuesday at age 71: — "So sad to hear that the brilliant Nora Ephron passed ...
Nora Ephron filmography
Nora Ephron, who died Tuesday at age 71, wrote, directed and produced films. Her filmography: — "Julie & Julia," 2009 (writer, director, producer).
Hollywood's Nora Ephron is very ill, rep says
Nora Ephron, the Oscar-nominated filmmaker and director behind such hits as "When Harry Met Sally" and "Sleepless in Seattle," is very ill, a ...