Her multiple screen roles include Joanna Barnes, which includes the collaborative fiancee of a divorced father in the 1961 film “The Parent Trap,” and the character’s mother in the remake 37 years later – and a successful second career as a writer while continuing to enjoy success as an actress – due April 29. He …
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The best actress category does the most. Without a strong front runner to dominate the field, nearly every award ceremony features a different cast of women as we fast forward. March 27 Oscar broadcast. Will that make it harder to predict the ultimate winner? Yes, but I choose to enjoy the chaos. After all, she’s …
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“If I take these home to my kids and they don’t like them, I will kill them,” the actress said. Morena Baccarin said. It’s been a soaking morning Rio Supermarket, a Brazilian grocery store in the Astoria neighborhood of Queens. An Emmy-nominated actress, Ms. Baccarin moved from Rio to New York at the age of …
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In the 1970 black comedy “MASH,” Maj. Willow, sultry voice actress and singer Sally Kellerman, whose portrayal of Margaret (Hot Lips) Houlihan earned her an Oscar nomination, died Thursday at an assisted living facility in Los Angeles. She was 84 years old. His son, Jack Krane, said the cause was heart failure. In her decades-long …
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Spanish actress Isabel Torres, best known for playing trans singer and television personality Cristina Ortiz Rodríguez on the HBO Max series “Veneno,” died Friday. She was 52 years old. Ms. Torres’ family confirmed her death. Declaration on his official Instagram account. The statement did not specify a cause or indicate where he died. In recent …
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Evening Skin? It’s very leathery. Bahamian mom? It’s very beachy. Peaches and cream? off season. Sweet cat? Number. On the Sunday before Christmas, in a windowless basement beneath a knitting hall in Downtown Brooklyn, actress and novelist Dagmara Dominczyk sought the perfect aroma. Since her undergraduate days at Carnegie Mellon University, a candle devotee (“I …
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Wayne Thiebaud is the California-based painter whose lush, dreamy landscapes and brilliant paintings of hot dogs, deli counters, marching bands and other fascinating relics of mid-century Americana are complex meditations on life and painting, representing one of the most expressive and individualistic. His variations on 20th-century Pop Art died Saturday at his home in Sacramento. …
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In France, police arrested a member of the Paris St.-Germain women’s soccer team on Wednesday while investigating charges that he was involved in a premeditated attack on a teammate who was struck in the leg by masked men using metal rods. The club said that arrested midfielder Aminata Diallo was detained last Thursday as part …
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It’s Never Too Late” is a series that tells the stories of people who decide to follow their dreams. By most accounts, Richard Klein had a pretty good life: a solid job as a teacher at a Hebrew day school in Oakland, California; friends like family and a passion for singing and dancing that dominates …
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“There would be a comic book on the same bill – my mother would fill in as a straight woman – a ventriloquist, a snake charmer, a tap dancer,” she told The Edmonton Journal of Alberta in 1996 while playing the same thing. She starred in the Edmonton production “Three Tall Women”. “I grew up …
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The documentary “Introduction, Selma Blair” offers a refreshingly relatable version of an often highly artificial event: an actress navigating the process of reinvention. Actress Selma Blair went through an involuntary change in August 2018 when she was diagnosed with the autoimmune disorder multiple sclerosis, a disease that attacks the central nervous system. He announced his …
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90-year-old Lois Smith has finally become a Tony winner. And not just a winner – she’s now the oldest artist to ever win a Tony Award for acting. “I love the processes of live theater,” said Smith, who won for her role as Margaret, the caretaker of a shelter for men who died from AIDS-related …