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It’s the late ’70s in New York, the Studio 54 Era, when being a gossip columnist for the New York Post was a prestige job. How one writer crashed and burned under the bright lights of celebrity and scandal.
Priscilla Johnson McMillan, historian who knew both JFK and Oswald, dies at 92 Harrison Smith Just out of graduate school in 1953, Priscilla Johnson McMillan joined the Senate staff of John F. Kennedy, then a newly elected Democrat from Massachusetts. He was “mesmerizing,” she later said; while she worked only briefly on Capitol Hill, she visited him in the hospital when he underwent spinal surgeries, and posed as one of his sisters to get past a line of nurses and bring newspapers to his bedside. Mrs. McMillan, who was then known as Priscilla Johnson, later went into...
You’ve Got Mail are widely credited with saving the romantic comedy genre. But beyond that, Ephron was a star in her own right, writing prolifically about her experiences of being a woman, from the 1970s up until the time of her death in 2012 from pneumonia brought on by acute myeloid leukemia. In honor of what would have been Ephron's 80th birthday on May 19th, below are some fun facts about the creator’s life and work. 1. Nora Ephron was fictionalized from an early age. Ephron made her living telling other people’s stories, but she’s inspired some, too—dating back to her teen year...
In Conversation With Jeffrey Lyon, Author, Journalist, Film historian, Film critic From: Bookpleasures.com welcomes as our guest Jeffrey Lyons. Jeffrey has reviewed more than 15,000movies, 900 Broadway and off-Broadway plays. He has interviewed over500 actors, co hosted three national movie review showsâ SneakPreviews, MSNBCâs At the Movies, and ReelTalk...
. >> rose: additional funding provided by these funders: and by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and information services worldwide captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. nora ephron died on tuesday in new york there complications from leukemia. she was 71 years old. nora got her start in the world of newspapers and soon became well-known as an essayist in the pages of esquire and "new york" magazine she established herself as one of america's funniest writer, her humor was smart, self-deprecating and perfectly tim...