Had she not died of leukemia last summer, Nora Ephron would have turned 72 today. The universally loved writer, director, producer and HuffPost contri...
To xfinity (by Comcast) and beyond? ABC announced on Tuesday that it will air an all-new "Toy Story" special, called "Toy Story of Terror," this comin...
"I just feel glad to be able to be working with music, doing stuff creatively, and supporting myself doing that because it's just what I love to do. My life's goal is to just stay involved in creative work and to keep developing myself as someone who is doing creative work."
When it comes to trust in America, Denzel Washington, Maya Angelou, and Robin Roberts have proven themselves to the public according to a recent poll ...
It's weird to say that Tom Hanks is experiencing a renaissance, but: Tom Hanks is experiencing a renaissance. In the last week alone, Hanks was nomina...
Tom Hanks received his first Tony Award nomination today for his leading role in Nora Ephron's play "Lucky Guy." Thanks to a flutter of responses on T...
Easter Sunday may have been March 30, but that didn't stop some of New York's finest performers from breaking out their finest bonnets a few weeks aft...
Johnathon Schaech is best known for his role in the Tom Hanks film, That Thing You Do. The memorable film reminded us all of the 1960s, a perilous time in the country -- ironically also a time that produced some of the greatest music in history.
In the heyday of New York's tabloid journalism, when newsrooms were boys' clubs and you could smoke and swear with impunity, the best reporters were on a mission to right wrongs. For these power-to-the-people crusaders, the 1980s and '90s were a hellava time.
When Tom Hanks took the stage on Sunday afternoon for his Broadway play, Lucky Guy, he was performing for a full house. Such a full house, in fact, that Uncle Jesse and Danny Tanner became the "rockstars" of the show.
The star-studded opening was enough to cause the nine cigar-chomping, beer-drinking guys I was playing poker with to actually freeze an "All-In" raise, mid-hand, in order to watch it as it happened.
Nora Ephron's last play, "Lucky Guy," would probably have been a hit even without Tom Hanks in the lead. Nevertheless, the thrill of sharing oxygen wi...
Lucky Guy feels like a telegram from history because the newspapers it celebrates don't exist anymore. Gone are the days when a single columnist could steer the municipal conversation with shoe-leather reporting on police malfeasance.
As anyone who knows about theater behavior nowadays will easily predict, standing-room-only audiences can't wait to give their idol one of those all but obligatory standing ovations. Nevertheless, this rapacious standing-o is assuredly deserved.
What do you think? Are you working on a real project that gratifies you at this moment in time? Are you offended by the phrase "fake it till you make it?"
On a whim, George might send 10 dozen roses to your office just to impress you. He'd charm you as he wined and dined you at the best restaurants in the world. You'd hear tales of his antics with his friends Brad (as in Pitt), Matt (as in Damon) and Julia (as in Roberts).
A friend at work caught me by the drinking fountain a few days ago and mentioned something rather surprising: "I saw one of your paintings in a movie ...