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Girl Rising Raises Hard Questions, Inspires Action

Friday, March 15th, 2013
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“What if a girl’s life could be more? What if a mother’s hopes could mean something? Each of our stories pivot on a single moment;

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Nora Ephron—The Voice of a Generation

Wednesday, June 27th, 2012
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My guy friends would often kid me about buying a men’s magazine. I couldn’t resist. Nora Ephron was a columnist for Esquire and as a

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Oscar 2012—An Abundance of Riches

Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012
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Billy Crystal is back and so is the excitement. There were so many wonderful films and performances this year, that the 2012 Academy Awards will

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An Iron Lady Weighed Down with a Leaden Script

Saturday, February 11th, 2012
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Meryl Streep, 1, Margaret Thatcher, 0 Meryl Streep may very well win a third Oscar for her performance in The Iron Lady, a biopic that

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Kevin

Kevin Kline—Much Ado About an Extraordinary Actor

Saturday, December 17th, 2011
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I was too young to understand Harold Cooper (The Big Chill) or Otto West (A Fish Called Wanda), but the hazy memory of both characters

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Theatre World Awards—Welcome to the Family

Thursday, June 9th, 2011
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The proliferation of entertainment awards makes it difficult to figure out which ones truly count. On June 7, the vote was overwhelmingly in favor of

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Who Doesn’t Love Movies?!

Wednesday, February 16th, 2011
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Eric Michael Gillett watched MGM change its billboard outside his bedroom window starting at age seven. He always loved the movies. There were two twenty-five-cent

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Woman Around Town: Karen Akers—The Ultimate Chantoozie

Sunday, September 12th, 2010
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By Alix Cohen One Out Of Twenty-One Equals Nine “There was a night when the universe was somehow in beautiful sync at The 46th Street

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