Month: August 2025

Actress of a Certain Age: My Twenty-Year Trail to Overnight Success. He’s pictured above in Savannah, Ga., in November 2024.’/>

Hiller spent years scraping by in Hollywood by taking on various small roles. Then he landed the role of Joel on Somebody Somewhere and everything changed. His new memoir is Actress of a Certain Age.

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Just published this week: A portrait of the lucrative drug-treatment industry; a memoir of a female firefighter; debut fiction from an Emmy-winning TV writer; and a brand new Karin Slaughter thriller.

Several factors were examined to determine that you are the epicenter of a phenomenon that swallows up the possibility of romantic love like a black hole sucking in light.

In the breezy comedy series Platonic, Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne play former best friends who reconnect years after a falling out. The Apple TV+ show follows their misadventures as they try to navigate their respective midlife crises and become friends again. Platonic is back for a second season, so today we are revisiting our conversation about the series.

She recorded a magical debut album on Blue Note and was later named a Jazz Master by the National Endowment of the Arts.

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes is about two flappers on the prowl for sugar daddies. First published in 1925, Anita Loos’ cheeky comic novel has now been reissued in paperback.

Kim says Asian representation in Hollywood has gotten better, but there’s still room for improvement: “I still haven’t played a romantic lead and I’ve been doing this for 30 years.”

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Woke up, got out of bed / So glad I wasn’t dead.

Personal items owned by Whitney Houston are being auctioned off on Monday. NPR talks with Darren Julien, executive director of Julien’s Auctions, which is known for selling famous people’s stuff.

The library is launching a project in collaboration with Harvard Law School and OpenAI this summer to digitize the materials and make them more fully searchable.

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