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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…

Joan Rivers Biopic OFF, Happy B’Day to ‘Electric Company,’ RIP Mort Sahl & More

Links from the past, with relevance today: (Images via Disney+ & by Matthew Rettenmund) VARIETY: The Comeback Girl, a proposed movie about the life of Joan Rivers to have starred Kathryn Hahn, will not proceed. Unfortunately, Rivers's life rights had not been purchased in advance, and rather than come out as an unauthorized project, producers…

Fun Flashback: ‘Storybook Squares’ Debuts (1969)

Fifty-two years ago today, on January 4, 1969, NBC debuted the unique game show Storybook Squares, a special dress-up version of Hollywood Squares. Doc Severinsen, Bonnie Franklin, Roddy McDowall, William Shatner & Julie McWhirter (Image via NBC) The gimmick was that all the stars were in costume as storybook characters of one sort or another,…

‘A Tad Overweight, but with Violet Eyes to Die For’: Elizabeth Taylor’s Middle Age

Garry Trudeau (b. 1948) immortalized Elizabeth Taylor's (1932-2011) mid-life dilemma in Doonesbury with a series of strips lampooning her role as a politician's wife during her marriage to future Sen. John Warner (b. 1927), a Virginia Republican. (more…)

Tag Archives: Joan Rivers

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

Joan Rivers Biopic OFF, Happy B’Day to ‘Electric Company,’ RIP Mort Sahl & More

Fun Flashback: ‘Storybook Squares’ Debuts (1969)

‘A Tad Overweight, but with Violet Eyes to Die For’: Elizabeth Taylor’s Middle Age

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