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Rooney Mara to Play Audrey Hepburn, Betty White’s Final Days & More

Rooney Mara to Play Audrey Hepburn, Betty White’s Final Days & More
Links to the past, with relevance today: Close enough? (GIF via GIPHY) INSTYLE: Rooney Mara has been cast as Audrey Hepburn in an upcoming biopic. JUST JARED: This actress was briefly Faye Dunaway's assistant. On the plus side, she went over her annotated Chinatown script with her. On the negative side, she was Faye Dunaway's…
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Betty White & Carol Channing’s 3 ‘Love Boat’ Showstoppers!

Betty White & Carol Channing’s 3 ‘Love Boat’ Showstoppers!
Of course, we'll never get tired of talking about Betty White, the enduring TV legend who died at 99 on New Year's Eve, less than three weeks shy of turning 100. In their nonsinging roles, Carol was doing a total Rose Nylund, even before Rose was "born"! (Image via ABC) Now, as part of my…
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Linda Lavin Looks Back at ‘Alice’ 45 Years Later

Linda Lavin Looks Back at ‘Alice’ 45 Years Later
Lavin is remarkably forthcoming in this. (Image via video still) Annaleigh Ashford played moderator for an absorbing Paley Center chat with Linda Lavin on the occasion of the 45th anniversary of Alice that you will NOT regret, well, absorbing: https://youtu.be/NpYLu1NHBL4
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‘Golden Palace’ Makes Streaming Debut on Hulu!

‘Golden Palace’ Makes Streaming Debut on Hulu!
Someone is smart. Bea-listers (Image via CBS) With all the hoopla around The Golden Girls all these years, someone at Hulu figured that plenty of fans would enjoy streaming the second-tier The Golden Palace — which is sweetened with big stars Don Cheadle and Cheech Marin — so the series makes its streaming debut on…
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A Basket of Kisses from Not-So-‘Bad Seed’ Patty McCormack

A Basket of Kisses from Not-So-‘Bad Seed’ Patty McCormack
On Sunday, I was so excited to attend a screening of The Bad Seed (1956) at NYC's Film Forum. It's always a pleasure to watch this startlingly modern film wrapped in a startlingly '50s melodrama — it prefigured Psycho (1960) — but the bonus was a rare personal appearance by the film's Oscar-nominated star Patty…
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