Elisabeth Egan

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2 days agoAmanda Seyfried is revealing which classic blonde bombshell partly inspired her performance in Mean Girls. “It was sort of like, channeling a little bit of Some Like It Hot, Marilyn Monroe,” the Long Bright River star, 39, told GQ in a video, posted Thursday, March 20, looking back on some of her most …

3 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Elisabeth Egan

Suddenly Liz Moore blazed, comet-like, onto small screens and best-seller lists. But her writing career has been a slow burn. No matter how you slice it, Liz Moore has arrived. This month, an adaptation of her blockbuster novel "Long Bright River" started streaming on Peacock.

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A weak Pope Francis is wielding power and rewriting the narrative of how popes exercise authorityVATICAN CITY (AP) — During his first foreign trip in 2013, Pope Francis made headlines when he carried his own black leather briefcase as he boarded the Alitalia charter bound for Brazil, since popes never carry bags and until the 1970s were themselves carried on thrones. Asked what was in the bag, …

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Elisabeth Egan

Phil Hanley stood in a womb-like studio, psyching himself up to record the final section of his memoir. Peppermint tea, check. Hands in meditation position, check. Sheaf of highlighted, color coded pages printed in extra large type, check. But when Hanley leaned into the microphone to read from "Spellbound," his candid account of growing up dyslexic, he sounded more like an anxious student than the seasoned comedian he is.

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Elisabeth Egan

On Dec. 10, Michael Connelly stood on the patio behind his house in the Hollywood Hills and gazed down at a generous slice of the city he's been writing about for 38 years. There were the spires of Hogwarts at Universal Studios. There was the 101 freeway, flowing steadily in both directions. There was the Hollywood sign, presiding over a slope of trees and scrub. Depending on the direction of the wind, Connelly said, you could smell smoke from a wildfire in Malibu.