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From the blog of Sheldon Kirshner at The Times of Israel

Otto Preminger's "Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon" is one of his better recent films. It succeeds, among other things, in making human entertainment out of a rather unlikely story. Preminger's on so many talk shows these days that you probably know the story better than I do, but anyway: It's about the efforts of three handicapped people to build a new life together. Liza Minnelli has been scarred on the face and arm by acid. Ken Howard suffers strange psychosomatic seizures. Robert Moore is a homosexual paraplegic. So it's like they don't have a lot going fo...

Inside Liza Minnelli's 75th Birthday Celebration With Barbra Streisand, Kristen Chenoweth and Shirley MacLaine Michael Appler, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail A year to the day since Broadway shuttered, Liza Minnelli celebrated her 75th birthday — but not over post-show drinks with Joan Collins, in a limo in Paris with John Waters, or at her childhood home with Shirley MacLaine. Memories like those abounded in “A Love Letter to Liza,” a benefit for the Actors Fund on Friday night, meant as a birthday tribute to Minnelli. Joined by the likes of Nathan Lane, Ben Vereen, Barbra Streisand...

S. Prestley Blake, who brought Fribbles along with friendly, affordable dining to New England, dies at 106 By Joseph P. Kahn Globe Correspondent,Updated February 12, 2021, 7:30 p.m. Email to a Friend Mr. Blake (right) with his brother Curtis at the Friendly's company conference center in West Springfield in 2001.NANCY PALMIERI At the dawn of this century, S. Prestley Blake was in his mid-80s and comfortably retired. A cofounder of the Friendly Ice Cream restaurant chain, he was a multimillionaire, avid yachtsman, world traveler, and deep-pocketed philanthropist. On his retirement to-do list:...