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'Lucky Guy,' starring Tom Hanks, turns a profit on Broadway
There's no need to stop the presses for this bit of Broadway foregone conclusion. "Lucky Guy," the Tony-nominated play written by the late Nora Ephron and starring Tom Hanks, has officially turned a profit, recouping its Broadway investment of $3.6...
Tags: Tom Hanks, Tony Awards, Services and Shopping, Courtney B. Vance, Maura Tierney
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Review: Nora Ephron's 'Lucky Guy' is great news
NEW YORK — In the program for "Lucky Guy," the play Nora Ephron raced to complete before her death last year, there's a note by the author titled "Journalism: A Love Story." That's a pretty good description of the drama, Ephron's valentine to...
Tags: Richard Masur, Peter Gerety, Tom Hanks, Subway Transportation, Nora Ephron
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Maura Tierney will make her Broadway debut with Tom Hanks
Tom Hanks is one lucky guy. Maura Tierney -- a.k.a. Dr. Abby Lockhart from NBC’s "ER" -- will make her Broadway debut this spring in Nora Ephron’s final play, "Lucky Guy." Tierney will play the wife of Hanks, who will star in the drama about...
Tags: The Good Wife (tv program), Peter Gerety, Tom Hanks, Jim Carrey, Breast Cancer
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Movie review: 'The Best and the Brightest'
"The Best and the Brightest" might have had some real teeth -- and some real smarts -- in the hands of a savvy satirist such as Christopher Guest. Unfortunately, writer-director Josh Shelov's sendup of the Manhattan private school culture flies off its...Tags: Amy Sedaris, Kate Mulgrew, Christopher Guest, Neil Patrick Harris, Somerville
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'Law & Order' episode feels the pain of Broadway's 'Spider-Man' musical
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On Theater: A 'Blonde' moment worth having
Of all the stage musicals based on hit movies over the years ("Applause," "Promises, Promises," etc.), few have hit the ground running with the wit, verve and sheer entertainment value of "Legally Blonde," now in its second and final weekend at Golden...
Tags: Music Theater, Music, Theater, Entertainment, Republic of Ireland
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Nora Ephron, Roger Ebert: Because they could not stop for death
There is something very unusual about Nora Ephron's bio in the Playbill for her new play, "Lucky Guy," a piece about famed tabloid newspaperman Mike McAlary, which opened Monday night on Broadway and stars Tom Hanks. The little sketch of Ephron, stuck...
Tags: Rudy Giuliani, Peter Gerety, Tom Hanks, Roger Ebert, Maura Tierney
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'Lucky Guy,' Nora Ephron's last work, a triumph for Tom Hanks & Co.
Liz Smith"But for many years I was in love with journalism. I loved the city room. I loved the pack. I loved smoking and drinking scotch and playing dollar poker. I didn't know much about anything and I was in a profession where you didn't have to. I loved the...Tags: Tom Hanks, Liz Smith, Morphine (drug), Celebrities, Pulitzer Prize Awards
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'The Collection'
This sequel to the hugely unpleasant thriller "The Collector" is just as gruesome, which would have to be expected. Josh Stewart returns as the lone escapee from a sadistic serial killer, enlisted to save a wealthy man's (Christopher McDonald) daughter...Tags: DVDs, Josh Stewart, The Collection (movie), Blu-ray Discs, The Collector (movie, 2009)
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Cast gets 'Lucky' with Hanks: Scolari, Masur among actors joining Broadway play
VarietyPeter Scolari, Christopher McDonald, Richard Masur, Stephen Tyrone Williams and Danny Mastrogiorgio are among the thesps lined up to appear alongside Tom Hanks in his upcoming Broadway debut in Nora Ephron's "Lucky Guy." Williams, seen this year in Off...Tags: Richard Masur, New York City Police Department, Nora Ephron, Tom Hanks, Lucky (movie)
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DVD review: 'Cat Run' has some sharp extras
This overly violent but otherwise frequently enjoyable film showed up briefly in theaters more than a year ago, to little notice. It may have suffered from comparison to “Red,” the Bruce Willis/Helen Mirren/Morgan Freeman/John Malkovich action...
Tags: Movies, DVDs, Paz Vega, Entertainment, Janet McTeer
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Fantastic Fest unveils final batch: Dunstan's 'Collection' to preem at fest
VarietyMarcus Dunstan's "The Collection," about a group of mercenaries tracking down a young woman taken by a psychopathic killer, will world preem at Fantastic Fest later this month, it was announced Wednesday along with the Austin event's final batch of 26...Tags: Entertainment, Josh Stewart, Festive Events, Arts and Culture
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