Emmy-winning actor Peter Scolari, known for his work on Bosom Buddies and Newhart, died Friday at the age of 66 following a battle with cancer, TVLine has confirmed.
After appearing on series like the short-lived ABC sitcom Goodtime Girls, Scolari’s long TV career truly began with ABC’s Bosom Buddies (1980-82), where he co-starred as Henry Desmond (aka Hildegarde) opposite Tom Hanks’ Kip Wilson (aka Buffy). Two years after Bosom Buddies ended, Scolari followed that up with an Emmy-nominated turn as TV producer Michael Harris on Newhart, which earned him three consecutive nods for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series.
After appearing on series like the short-lived ABC sitcom Goodtime Girls, Scolari’s long TV career truly began with ABC’s Bosom Buddies (1980-82), where he co-starred as Henry Desmond (aka Hildegarde) opposite Tom Hanks’ Kip Wilson (aka Buffy). Two years after Bosom Buddies ended, Scolari followed that up with an Emmy-nominated turn as TV producer Michael Harris on Newhart, which earned him three consecutive nods for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series.
- 10/22/2021
- by Rebecca Iannucci
- TVLine.com
Nothing busts canons quite like living in interesting times. In our ongoing Inflection Point series, we look back at the films that have taken on new relevance due to our ongoing cultural and political upheaval. Some beloved, some undiscovered, these titles deserve newfound consideration as film criticism evolves to meet the moment.
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1997, filmmaker James Mangold sat down with Pulitzer
Prize-winning journalist Mike McAlary to discuss the continued relevance of
corrupt cops on the screen.
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In
1997, filmmaker James Mangold sat down with Pulitzer
Prize-winning journalist Mike McAlary to discuss the continued relevance of
corrupt cops on the screen.
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- 6/18/2020
- by Matthew Monagle
- The Playlist
Santa Monica — A brief interlude today in our on-going series of chats with "Birdman" star Michael Keaton. An interesting note in his filmography is the handful of journalism films he has under his belt. Between Ron Howard's "The Paper," HBO's "Live from Baghdad" and the upcoming "Spotlight" from director Tom McCarthy, Keaton has seen his share of journalist characters. And it's something he's been fascinated by since he was a young man trying to find his way. Indeed, follow him on Instagram and you're not going to be confronted by a bunch of selfies from his life on the circuit. You'll see snapshot after snapshot of newspaper stories that he devours every morning while kicking back at the coffee shop we're meeting the a day before he'll get the news that he has landed his first Oscar nomination. It seemed an interesting sidebar so I pursued it. Read through...
- 1/27/2015
- by Kristopher Tapley
- Hitfix
That Alec Baldwin can play a cocky, know-it-all New Yorker should not be a surprise.
That he can do so as a newspaper columnist with an innate sense of decency and play him quietly -- against type -- is.
In "Criminal Stories," Wednesday's (March 19) episode of "Law & Order: Svu," Mariska Hargitay makes her directorial debut and the episode is flawless. Baldwin is Jimmy MacArthur of the New York Ledger and is modeled after great tabloid columnists like Pete Hamill, Jimmy Breslin and Mike McAlary.
Mac visits the squad room to do a profile of Benson (Hargitay). She is not pleased and becomes even less so when she learns that 1 Police Plaza has given him full clearance. He can go on ridealongs and into meetings and isn't to be shut out of anything.
Though she puts him off, Mac is persistent and they finally meet for a late dinner.
"I have...
That he can do so as a newspaper columnist with an innate sense of decency and play him quietly -- against type -- is.
In "Criminal Stories," Wednesday's (March 19) episode of "Law & Order: Svu," Mariska Hargitay makes her directorial debut and the episode is flawless. Baldwin is Jimmy MacArthur of the New York Ledger and is modeled after great tabloid columnists like Pete Hamill, Jimmy Breslin and Mike McAlary.
Mac visits the squad room to do a profile of Benson (Hargitay). She is not pleased and becomes even less so when she learns that 1 Police Plaza has given him full clearance. He can go on ridealongs and into meetings and isn't to be shut out of anything.
Though she puts him off, Mac is persistent and they finally meet for a late dinner.
"I have...
- 3/20/2014
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
Wednesday's (March 19) "Law & Order: Svu" episode marks two debuts: Alec Baldwin as a guest star and Mariska Hargitay as a director, and showrunner Warren Leight says he was surprised by Baldwin.
"We have an Islamic Indian woman raped, and it's a hate crime, and it's on Central Park South so it is a high-profile crime," Leight says of the episoded, titled "Criminal Stories."
Baldwin plays a tough tabloid columnist, who accuses the woman of being a fake, and "our squad is caught in the middle," Leight says. "Meanwhile, he is so discrediting the victim, it is going to be hard to prove."
It's ironic that Baldwin is playing a reporter, considering his recent screed against journalists. But it turns out he and Hargitay are pals, and he had optioned a couple of books on Mike McAlary, the late columnist who in the 1980s bounced between the New York Post and the New York Daily News.
"We have an Islamic Indian woman raped, and it's a hate crime, and it's on Central Park South so it is a high-profile crime," Leight says of the episoded, titled "Criminal Stories."
Baldwin plays a tough tabloid columnist, who accuses the woman of being a fake, and "our squad is caught in the middle," Leight says. "Meanwhile, he is so discrediting the victim, it is going to be hard to prove."
It's ironic that Baldwin is playing a reporter, considering his recent screed against journalists. But it turns out he and Hargitay are pals, and he had optioned a couple of books on Mike McAlary, the late columnist who in the 1980s bounced between the New York Post and the New York Daily News.
- 3/19/2014
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
Exclusive: Tom Hanks and Tom Tykwer are going to turn the Dave Eggers novel A Hologram For The King into a feature. Hanks will star and the film will be directed by Tykwer, the Run Lola Run director who most recently co-helmed Cloud Atlas. Tykwer has adapted the book, which was published last year by McSweeney’s and became a National Book Award finalist. The story involves a struggling businessman who, after failing in America, heads to a rising Saudi Arabian city for a last ditch attempt to stave off foreclosure, pay his daughter’s college tuition, and do something memorable. The film will be produced by X Filme Creative Pool producers Stefan Arndt, Uwe Schott and Tykwer, who are teamed with Playtone partners Hanks and Gary Goetzman. They don’t yet have a studio or their financing completely together yet, but CAA, which reps Hanks, Eggers and Tykwer, is...
- 6/12/2013
- by MIKE FLEMING JR
- Deadline
The only sure shot going into the 67th Annual Tony Awards on Sunday (June 9) is Neil Patrick Harris hosting for a fourth time.
"He understands Broadway and television, and Broadway and television come together one time a year," says Glenn Weiss, director and co-producer of the Tonys.
Though Harris was suspended upside down when "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" was a contender in 2012, he's not going to pull similar stunts this time.
"I never find it a successful move when an awards show host dons different ridiculous outfits," Harris tells Zap2it. "As a viewer, I never feel it is funny, and I just think it is difficult for the host. It is a lot of work for not a lot of accolades. You end up with silly pictures of yourself in the trades.
"The job of hosting an awards show like the Tonys is to be the ringmaster and barker,...
"He understands Broadway and television, and Broadway and television come together one time a year," says Glenn Weiss, director and co-producer of the Tonys.
Though Harris was suspended upside down when "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" was a contender in 2012, he's not going to pull similar stunts this time.
"I never find it a successful move when an awards show host dons different ridiculous outfits," Harris tells Zap2it. "As a viewer, I never feel it is funny, and I just think it is difficult for the host. It is a lot of work for not a lot of accolades. You end up with silly pictures of yourself in the trades.
"The job of hosting an awards show like the Tonys is to be the ringmaster and barker,...
- 6/9/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
Every Tony season it's a perennial temptation to frame the race as an apocalyptic battle for the soul of a perpetually embattled art form. Which is exactly what our theater critics (who'll also co-live-blog CBS’s Tonycast at 8 p.m. Est this Sunday here at Vulture) are prepared to do again this year, as Broadway theater — coming off a year of solid box office but eroding attendance, a year of abundant new work but persistent complaints about lack of creativity, deadening commercial-mindedness, and insufficient risk-taking — celebrates itself and its own for the 67th time. Insiders versus outsiders, old guard versus new, "family" shows versus more grown-up razzle-dazzle, dogged career dues-payers versus avid celebrity carpetbaggers: there are hundreds of ways to look at this year's Tony pileup, and not one of them tells the whole tale. So let's apply the philosophy of firebrand columnist Mike McAlary, as portrayed by Tom Hanks...
- 6/7/2013
- by Scott Brown,Jesse Green
- Vulture
Tom Hanks could bring 'Lucky Guy' to the London. The Oscar-winning star is currently discussing transferring the critically-acclaimed Nora Ephron Broadway play from New York City to the West End. But if the 56-year-old actor agrees to the transition and the show gets the go ahead, it won't be up and running until spring 2014 and will only be available for a limited amount of time, according to the Daily Mail newspaper. Hanks plays the lead role of controversial tabloid journalist Mike McAlary and covers the highs and lows of the career of the reporter, who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1998...
- 5/17/2013
- Virgin Media - Celebrity
Tom Hanks could bring 'Lucky Guy' to the London. The Oscar-winning star is currently discussing transferring the critically-acclaimed Nora Ephron Broadway play from New York City to the West End. But if the 56-year-old actor agrees to the transition and the show gets the go ahead, it won't be up and running until spring 2014 and will only be available for a limited amount of time, according to the Daily Mail newspaper. Hanks plays the lead role of controversial tabloid journalist Mike McAlary and covers the highs and lows of the career of the reporter, who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1998 for his coverage on the police brutalisation of Abner Louima and died from colon cancer later that...
- 5/17/2013
- Monsters and Critics
Christopher McDonald removes his fedora, slides into a booth at Sardi's, the Broadway bar, and stares across the street at the Broadhurst Theatre.
"Lucky Guy" is playing, Tom Hanks stars and McDonald co-stars.
McDonald talks about Hanks with tremendous admiration.
"He's a great guy, smart, funny and with a great attitude," McDonald tells Zap2it. "He's generous and funny as Hell. We laughed so much during the rehearsal period."
He's gone with Hanks to see Hanks' wife, Rita Wilson, perform at 54 Below, a Broadway nightclub, and they went to a basketball game. It's a far cry from when McDonald wrote him a letter years ago.
"Tom is the only person I ever sent a fan letter to," McDonald says.
Proving his nice guy reputation is well deserved, Hanks had indeed responded.
McDonald reminded him of this exchange when they started working together on "Lucky Guy" and he remembered.
McDonald gazes at Sardi's walls of fame,...
"Lucky Guy" is playing, Tom Hanks stars and McDonald co-stars.
McDonald talks about Hanks with tremendous admiration.
"He's a great guy, smart, funny and with a great attitude," McDonald tells Zap2it. "He's generous and funny as Hell. We laughed so much during the rehearsal period."
He's gone with Hanks to see Hanks' wife, Rita Wilson, perform at 54 Below, a Broadway nightclub, and they went to a basketball game. It's a far cry from when McDonald wrote him a letter years ago.
"Tom is the only person I ever sent a fan letter to," McDonald says.
Proving his nice guy reputation is well deserved, Hanks had indeed responded.
McDonald reminded him of this exchange when they started working together on "Lucky Guy" and he remembered.
McDonald gazes at Sardi's walls of fame,...
- 5/6/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
Lucky Guy, the late Nora Ephron’s valentine to the 1980s heyday of New York journalism, has more good news this week on top of its impressive six Tony nominations (including nods for Ephron for Best Play and first-time Great White Way star Tom Hanks). It has become the latest Broadway production to recoup its investment, after only eight weeks on the boards — a fast feat for any show, play or musical.
Since opening on April 1, the play — chronicling the controversial career of late Pulitzer-winning newspaper columnist Mike McAlary — was met with some mixed reviews but audiences have been arriving in droves,...
Since opening on April 1, the play — chronicling the controversial career of late Pulitzer-winning newspaper columnist Mike McAlary — was met with some mixed reviews but audiences have been arriving in droves,...
- 5/2/2013
- by Jason Clark
- EW.com - PopWatch
New York -- That title isn't wrong. In what is turning into a truly fortunate week for Lucky Guy, producers have announced that the late Nora Ephron's play has recouped its initial capitalization of $3.6 million, only two days after picking up six Tony nominations. Digging into her early journalism roots, Ephron's final work is an affectionate chronicle of the New York tabloid wars of the 1980s and of the rise, fall and redemption of scrappy crime-beat columnist Mike McAlary. On Tuesday, it was nominated for best play, leading actor Tom Hanks, featured actor Courtney B. Vance and director George C. Wolfe as well
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- 5/2/2013
- by David Rooney
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Tony Awards 2013: Tom Hanks, Nora Ephron, Cicely Tyson, Tom Sturridge among nominees (photo: Tom Hanks in Lucky Guy) The Tony Awards 2013 nominations were announced earlier today. Missing in action is a whole array of film celebrities, though a few managed to be included in this year’s shortlist. (See also: “Tony Awards 2013: Scarlett Johansson, Sigourney Weaver, Jessica Chastain ‘Snubbed.’“) Two-time Academy Award winner Tom Hanks (Philadelphia, Forrest Gump) is in the running for Best Actor in a Play for Lucky Guy, which is also up for the Best Play Tony Award. Written by Nora Ephron, who directed Hanks and Meg Ryan in two of their biggest box-office hits, Sleepless in Seattle and You’ve Got Mail, Lucky Guy traces the rise, fall, and rebirth of New York tabloid columnist Mike McAlary. Ephron, among whose other film credits include the Meryl Streep / Amy Adams comedy Julie & Julia and, as a screenwriter,...
- 5/1/2013
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Tom Hanks has been nominated for his first Tony award. The 56-year-old actor is up for Best Performance by an Actor for his debut role on Broadway in the play 'Lucky Guy'. Tom plays the lead role of newspaper columnist Mike McAlary in the Nora Ephron play, after forming a friendship with the late writer. Tom - who previously starred in 'You've Got Mail' and 'Sleepless In Seattle', both written and directed by Nora - was overcome with emotion at the show's opening night earlier this month saying he missed Nora, who died of leukemia aged 71 last year. Speaking after the performance, he...
- 4/30/2013
- Virgin Media - Celebrity
Tom Hanks has been nominated for his first Tony award. The 56-year-old actor is up for Best Performance by an Actor for his debut role on Broadway in the play 'Lucky Guy'. Tom plays the lead role of newspaper columnist Mike McAlary in the Nora Ephron play, after forming a friendship with the late writer. Tom - who previously starred in 'You've Got Mail' and 'Sleepless In Seattle', both written and directed by Nora - was overcome with emotion at the show's opening night earlier this month saying he missed Nora, who died of leukemia aged 71 last year. Speaking after the performance, he said: 'That was a tough moment. We were going to do this, and Nora and [show...
- 4/30/2013
- Monsters and Critics
New York — The Cyndi Lauper-scored "Kinky Boots" has earned a leading 13 Tony Award nominations, with the British import "Matilda: The Musical" close behind with 12. Tom Hanks, making his Broadway debut, earned a nod as leading man in a play.
"Kinky Boots" is based on the 2005 British movie about a real-life shoe factory that struggles until it finds new life in fetish footwear. Lauper's songs and a story by Harvey Fierstein have made it a crowd-pleaser.
"I walked my dog early this morning so I'd be back in time to listen to the announcement. It's so great. It's so great. I'm done crying a little bit. But I'm still thrilled and a little stunned," Lauper said.
The haul did not match the record number of nominations for a musical, which is 15, set by "The Producers" in 2001 and "Billy Elliot" in 2009. "The Book of Mormon" nabbed 14 Tony nods in 2011.
"Lucky Guy,...
"Kinky Boots" is based on the 2005 British movie about a real-life shoe factory that struggles until it finds new life in fetish footwear. Lauper's songs and a story by Harvey Fierstein have made it a crowd-pleaser.
"I walked my dog early this morning so I'd be back in time to listen to the announcement. It's so great. It's so great. I'm done crying a little bit. But I'm still thrilled and a little stunned," Lauper said.
The haul did not match the record number of nominations for a musical, which is 15, set by "The Producers" in 2001 and "Billy Elliot" in 2009. "The Book of Mormon" nabbed 14 Tony nods in 2011.
"Lucky Guy,...
- 4/30/2013
- by AP
- Huffington Post
Tom Hanks would make his Broadway debut only in a special play, and any play written by Nora Ephron is.
Those are just facts, and at its essence, this is a play about facts. Any piece about newspapers and a true newspaperman is about facts.
"Lucky Guy," which has already been extended to July 3, regularly causes pedestrian gridlock on 44th St. when the audience lets out at the Broadhurst Theatre and people queue up to see Hanks.
The play captures a great time in newspapers. It was such a great time and it is so well replicated on stage that it's hard to divorce that and see just the play. Even though this is Ephron's final play and Hanks' first Broadway appearance, it is not an excellent play. It is, though, incredible fun, particularly for those of us lucky enough to have lived some of it.
For newspaper reporters, it...
Those are just facts, and at its essence, this is a play about facts. Any piece about newspapers and a true newspaperman is about facts.
"Lucky Guy," which has already been extended to July 3, regularly causes pedestrian gridlock on 44th St. when the audience lets out at the Broadhurst Theatre and people queue up to see Hanks.
The play captures a great time in newspapers. It was such a great time and it is so well replicated on stage that it's hard to divorce that and see just the play. Even though this is Ephron's final play and Hanks' first Broadway appearance, it is not an excellent play. It is, though, incredible fun, particularly for those of us lucky enough to have lived some of it.
For newspaper reporters, it...
- 4/22/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
The stage world's response to the death of Richard Griffiths shows certain theatrical traditions have an enduring relevance
A friend who went to see the Alan Bennett double bill Untold Stories on Tuesday night reported an unusual twist to the curtain call. Alex Jennings, who plays Bennett in the two short plays, silenced the applause from the audience and told them that, earlier that night, the lights in London's West End had been dimmed in memory of the actor Richard Griffiths, a "great friend and collaborator", who had died that week. As many involved in the production had worked with Griffiths – Jennings co-starred with him in Bennett's The Habit of Art – there was considerable emotion on stage. It was shared by many in the audience, who will have had their own long memories of the actor.
The ceremonies given to Griffiths – a brief darkening of the neon in the theatre...
A friend who went to see the Alan Bennett double bill Untold Stories on Tuesday night reported an unusual twist to the curtain call. Alex Jennings, who plays Bennett in the two short plays, silenced the applause from the audience and told them that, earlier that night, the lights in London's West End had been dimmed in memory of the actor Richard Griffiths, a "great friend and collaborator", who had died that week. As many involved in the production had worked with Griffiths – Jennings co-starred with him in Bennett's The Habit of Art – there was considerable emotion on stage. It was shared by many in the audience, who will have had their own long memories of the actor.
The ceremonies given to Griffiths – a brief darkening of the neon in the theatre...
- 4/8/2013
- by Mark Lawson
- The Guardian - Film News
It was a notable week on the boards, one that included the Broadway debut of a most-beloved film star, a reboot of a musical two-hander with quite a vocal fanbase, and the Main Stem composing debut of an ’80s pop icon. (Click on the links below to read our full reviews.)
Lucky Guy A smoky, New York-flavored ode to Mike McAlary, the respected and feared tabloid journo who exposed corruption in the NYC police ranks, Lucky Guy brings two-time Academy Award-winner Tom Hanks to the Great White Way, courtesy of a script by the late, adored Nora Ephron (Sleepless in Seattle...
Lucky Guy A smoky, New York-flavored ode to Mike McAlary, the respected and feared tabloid journo who exposed corruption in the NYC police ranks, Lucky Guy brings two-time Academy Award-winner Tom Hanks to the Great White Way, courtesy of a script by the late, adored Nora Ephron (Sleepless in Seattle...
- 4/6/2013
- by Jason Clark
- EW.com - PopWatch
New York -- Tom Hanks remembered the late Nora Ephron with jokes and tears at Friday's session of the Women in the World Summit here.
"Nora Ephron would never pass up a front-row seat at human folly, including her own," he said of his longtime friend, a witty and wise writer who died in June 2012 at age 71.
Her training as a journalist, Hanks observed, heavily influenced the way she thought about all her fictional writing.
"Nora's writing was about the world as witnessed by her. Everything was copy, but she was still her own editor," he said. "Collaborating with Nora meant you were one of her sources. She would ask you harmless questions and get you to talk."
"Her means of making a living made her living more fascinating," Hanks said.
He called those who had known her "lucky." Hanks' own work with Ephron stretched from the 1993 movie "Sleepless In Seattle...
"Nora Ephron would never pass up a front-row seat at human folly, including her own," he said of his longtime friend, a witty and wise writer who died in June 2012 at age 71.
Her training as a journalist, Hanks observed, heavily influenced the way she thought about all her fictional writing.
"Nora's writing was about the world as witnessed by her. Everything was copy, but she was still her own editor," he said. "Collaborating with Nora meant you were one of her sources. She would ask you harmless questions and get you to talk."
"Her means of making a living made her living more fascinating," Hanks said.
He called those who had known her "lucky." Hanks' own work with Ephron stretched from the 1993 movie "Sleepless In Seattle...
- 4/5/2013
- by The Huffington Post
- Huffington Post
I loved Nora Ephron as a writer, and I was very sorry when she died last year. I had always dreamed about meeting her and becoming really good friends, and now that was never going to happen. Plus, I just liked to read anything and everything she wrote, and now that was over too. So I was glad to hear that she left behind a new play called "Lucky Guy," which opened this week in New York. And I was even more fascinated to hear that it's about Mike McAlary, the late columnist for the New York Daily News. It meant that we would have had at least one thing to talk about. A lot of people have a lot of memories about Mike McAlary, but to me he will always be the creep who once accused a lesbian rape victim of lying about being raped. That created a pretty...
- 4/4/2013
- by Gabriel Rotello
- Thompson on Hollywood
Tom Hanks got a wildly enthusiastic standing ovation last night as he made his Broadway debut with Nora Ephron’s “Lucky Guy.” The response was not just from friends and fans because they like Hanks, but because his portrayal of Mike McAlary is such a moving, funny, and lovely experience. This was my second time seeing “Lucky Guy” and I do admit to having a soft spot for it. Ephron captured life in a New York newsroom between 1985 and 1998 perfectly. A lot of the specifics of McAlary’s life have been telescoped to fit a normal running time. But even taking dramatic license, Ephron worked in enough to capture the triumphs and the hubris. And Hanks broke down in tears at the end of the show, when a curtain pulled back on stage to reveal a large portrait of Ephron, who died last July. “Nothing like sharing a personal moment with 11,000 strangers,...
- 4/4/2013
- by Roger Friedman
- Hollywoodnews.com
Tom Hanks held back tears during the opening night of his late friend's Broadway show 'Lucky Guy'. The 56-year-old actor made his stage debut as former New York Post and Daily News columnist Mike McAlary on Monday night (01.04.13) and was overcome with emotion after starring in his close friend Nora Ephron's play, who died of leukemia aged 71 last year. Speaking from the Broadhurst Theatre after the show, Tom told the New York Post newspaper: 'That was a tough moment. We were going to do this, and Nora and [show director] George C. Wolfe were going to walk out on stage. I miss her. What more can you say? 'Nora was ... fascinated by everything. She was always doing...
- 4/3/2013
- Monsters and Critics
Broadhurst theatre, New York
Nora Ephron's Lucky Guy is a profane love letter to the lost, rollicking world of New York tabloid journalism. It is also a tribute to its real-life fallen son, the brash reporter Mike McAlary, who received the Pulitzer prize for his muckraking exposures of the New York police department shortly before he died of cancer aged 41. Tom Hanks, sporting a red tint in his hair and a bottlebrush that some might call a moustache, plays McAlary for this, his Broadway debut, striding the Broadhurst stage like a brazen colossus in a series of bad suits.
The play spans 1985 to 1998 and a gritty, murder-riven New York barely recognisable today. It charts McAlary's rise from lowly hack to star columnist. It also shows several career lows – tawdry squabbles with colleagues, a drink-driving accident, the gross mishandling of a rape case.
Simple arithmetic suggests that as the play...
Nora Ephron's Lucky Guy is a profane love letter to the lost, rollicking world of New York tabloid journalism. It is also a tribute to its real-life fallen son, the brash reporter Mike McAlary, who received the Pulitzer prize for his muckraking exposures of the New York police department shortly before he died of cancer aged 41. Tom Hanks, sporting a red tint in his hair and a bottlebrush that some might call a moustache, plays McAlary for this, his Broadway debut, striding the Broadhurst stage like a brazen colossus in a series of bad suits.
The play spans 1985 to 1998 and a gritty, murder-riven New York barely recognisable today. It charts McAlary's rise from lowly hack to star columnist. It also shows several career lows – tawdry squabbles with colleagues, a drink-driving accident, the gross mishandling of a rape case.
Simple arithmetic suggests that as the play...
- 4/2/2013
- by Alexis Soloski
- The Guardian - Film News
Always ones to make it to the hottest events, Emmy Rossum and Chrissy Teigen were on hand for the opening night of “Lucky Guy” on Monday (April 1) in New York.
Dressed to the nines in a lacy pale blue-and-white frock, the “Beautiful Creatures” brunette chatted up her equally stylish model pal, who turned heads in a bright purple dress.
Directed by Tony Award winner George C. Wolfe, “Lucky Guy” stars Tom Hanks and Maura Tierney, and was written by Nora Ephron.
Officially described as a play about the scandal- and graffiti-ridden New York of the 1980s - as told through the story of the charismatic and controversial tabloid columnist Mike McAlary, who won the Pulitzer Prize shortly before his untimely death on Christmas Day, 1998 - the show will run at the Broadhurst Theatre.
Dressed to the nines in a lacy pale blue-and-white frock, the “Beautiful Creatures” brunette chatted up her equally stylish model pal, who turned heads in a bright purple dress.
Directed by Tony Award winner George C. Wolfe, “Lucky Guy” stars Tom Hanks and Maura Tierney, and was written by Nora Ephron.
Officially described as a play about the scandal- and graffiti-ridden New York of the 1980s - as told through the story of the charismatic and controversial tabloid columnist Mike McAlary, who won the Pulitzer Prize shortly before his untimely death on Christmas Day, 1998 - the show will run at the Broadhurst Theatre.
- 4/2/2013
- GossipCenter
Theater seasons routinely involve the repeated trumpeting of some new movie star come to Broadway, and this year has been no different. After Al Pacino and Scarlett Johansson revived trusty warhorses “Glengarry Glen Ross” and “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” this spring will see everyone from Bette Midler and Alan Cumming to Tom Hanks and Alec Baldwin treading the boards. The Hollywood stars may be the ones who get the most attention, but this spring also proves that stars are where you find them; plenty of theatergoers will shrug at the presence of Hanks but shriek with joy to find that Jeremy Shamos will be acting opposite Judith Light. Fourteen plays and musicals will open in April, and most of them feature an above-the-title star name such as Hanks, making his Broadway debut in Nora Ephron’s “Lucky Guy” (opening April 1), about real-life tabloid columnist Mike McAlary. Midler, on the other hand,...
- 3/27/2013
- backstage.com
Tom Hanks is practically a Broadway veteran. He lived on West 45th Street in his twenties, and “I’d walk past those theaters all the time,” he says. It just took him three decades to find his way onstage. Next month, Hanks, 56, makes his official debut on the Great White Way in Lucky Guy (currently in previews), about Daily News columnist Mike McAlary, who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1998 for his coverage of the Abner Louima police-brutality case, then died of cancer eight months later at the age of 41. It’s also the final play by Hanks’s friend and frequent collaborator Nora Ephron, who succumbed to complications from leukemia last June.Entering early rehearsals a year ago, Hanks says, “we had, quite frankly, steeled ourselves for [Ephron’s] absence. There’s no other way of putting it. In many ways, I hear Nora’s voice and think of her in the present tense.
- 3/24/2013
- by Jada Yuan
- Vulture
New York — It's fitting that Nora Ephron's swan song, the play "Lucky Guy," calls the Broadhurst Theatre on West 44th Street home. The venue, which has played host to productions of Agatha Christie's "Ten Little Indians," Neil Simon's "The Sunshine Boys," Peter Shaffer's "Amadeus" and Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman" over its century-long history, sits around the corner from the old New York Times Building that housed the operations of the Gray Lady for 94 years. And Ephron's play, while an account of the rise, fall and vindication of New York journalist Mike McAlary, is just as much a...
- 3/13/2013
- by Kristopher Tapley
- Hitfix
There are a small handful of proven box office draws on Broadway: Hugh Jackman, Al Pacino, green-faced witches. Now we can add a new name: Tom Hanks. The two-time Oscar winner’s Broadway debut, Lucky Guy, raked in an astonishing $1.1 million for its first full week of previews ending March 10, according to figures from the Broadway League. It’s rare for a nonmusical to top $1 million in weekly grosses, but the late Nora Ephron’s play (starring Hanks as another departed New York legend, tabloid columnist Mike McAlary) managed to earn 112 percent of the potential gross for the Broadhurst Theatre.
- 3/11/2013
- by Thom Geier
- EW.com - PopWatch
Los Angeles, Feb 25: He may have won an Oscar for his role in "Philadelphia", but Tom Hanks is nervous about his Broadway debut.
The 56-year-old will be seen playing award-winning columnist Mike McAlary in Nora Ephron's "Lucky Guy".
"We're (the cast and I are) just resorting to imagining the headlines for bad reviews - 'Lucky Guy, Unlucky Audience!' 'Yucky Guy!' I'm not afraid of the end result because I think we'll have a very good production," nytimes.com quoted Hanks as saying.
"But I am afraid of blowing it myself. I'm afraid of having something being my responsibility, yet not having the wherewithal or lack of self-consciousness.
The 56-year-old will be seen playing award-winning columnist Mike McAlary in Nora Ephron's "Lucky Guy".
"We're (the cast and I are) just resorting to imagining the headlines for bad reviews - 'Lucky Guy, Unlucky Audience!' 'Yucky Guy!' I'm not afraid of the end result because I think we'll have a very good production," nytimes.com quoted Hanks as saying.
"But I am afraid of blowing it myself. I'm afraid of having something being my responsibility, yet not having the wherewithal or lack of self-consciousness.
- 2/25/2013
- by Shiva Prakash
- RealBollywood.com
Tom Hanks swears. Not a blue streak, no, but it’s bracing to hear profanity from the man who has defined decency for three decades in Hollywood, playing white knights in “Splash,” “Forrest Gump,” “Apollo 13” and the “Toy Story” series. If he is grandma-friendly on screen, he is looser and less predictable in person -- as his old friend Nora Ephron was reminded several years ago when she sent him the screenplay for a biopic, “Lucky Guy.” Mr. Hanks took an instant dislike to his character, Mike McAlary, the muckraking columnist of New York City tabloids in the 1980s and ’90s.
- 2/21/2013
- by New York Times
- Huffington Post
It’s hard to believe that Tom Hanks has never been on Broadway before. But the two-time Oscar winner will make his debut this spring in Lucky Guy, a new play by Nora Ephron, the late writer-director of two of his biggest box office hits (Sleepless in Seattle and You’ve Got Mail). And this is no one-man vanity project, as you can see from this exclusive first photo from the production, which begins previews March 1 before an official opening April 1 under the direction of two-time Tony winner George C. Wolfe.
In the play, Hanks portays the late New York...
In the play, Hanks portays the late New York...
- 2/7/2013
- by Thom Geier
- EW.com - PopWatch
Tom Hanks continues to prepare for a Broadway run on stage with Lucky Guy, the final play written by the late Nora Ephron, and today he.s learning that two additional screen actors will be joining him in the production.s ensemble. Maura Tierney and Courtney B. Vance plan to take parts in Ephron.s bio-play, which casts Hanks as Pulitzer Prize-winning New York City journalist Mike McAlary, who made his bones as a controversial tabloid columnist in the 1980s. THR says that the show is about to begin previews at the Broadhurst Theatre on March 1, with an eye toward opening on April 1. Vance is a stage icon, a two-time Tony Award nominee for his performance opposite James Earl Jones in August Wilson.s Fences as well as his turn in Six Degrees of Separation. Tierney, meanwhile, will be making her Broadway debut in the show, which was written by...
- 1/8/2013
- cinemablend.com
New York – Maura Tierney and Courtney B. Vance will join Tom Hanks in the Broadway cast of Lucky Guy, the final play written by Nora Ephron. An Emmy nominee for ER and a recurring character this season on The Good Wife, Tierney will make her Broadway debut playing the wife of legendary 1980s New York tabloid columnist Mike McAlary, the role played by Hanks. Vance was nominated for a Tony Award for his part in August Wilson's Fences, opposite James Earl Jones, and again for John Guare's Six Degrees of Separation, in which he co-starred with Stockard Channing.
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- 1/7/2013
- by David Rooney
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
It may not be widely-known that Courtney B. Vance has Broadway credits, and 2 Tony Award nominations for his performances in August Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Fences (1987/1988), and for his lead role in John Guare's Six Degrees of Separation (1990-1991). Announced earlier today by the show's producers, Vance is returning to the Broadway stage to co-star alongside Tom Hanks a play called Lucky Guy, the Nora Ephron work coming this spring, directed by anotherAfrican American veteran of the stage, as well as a Tony Award winner, George C. Wolfe. Lucky Guy is based on the life of the late New York City tabloid columnist Mike McAlary (to...
- 1/7/2013
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
New York — Maura Tierney will make her Broadway debut as Tom Hanks' wife in Nora Ephron's play "Lucky Guy."
Producers said Monday that the Emmy Award-nominated star of such TV shows as "ER," "Newsradio," "Rescue Me" and "The Good Wife" has joined the cast of Ephron's last play, which begins previews March 1 at the Broadhurst Theatre.
Hanks will play Mike McAlary, a gutsy New York City newspaper columnist who won a Pulitzer Prize for exposing that a Haitian immigrant had been sodomized by police in 1997.
Tony Award nominee Courtney B. Vance has also has signed on to play McAlary's editor. The rest of the cast includes Hanks' former "Bosom Buddies" co-star Peter Scolari, Christopher McDonald, Peter Gerety and Michael Gaston. The director will be two-time Tony winner George C. Wolfe.
Producers said Monday that the Emmy Award-nominated star of such TV shows as "ER," "Newsradio," "Rescue Me" and "The Good Wife" has joined the cast of Ephron's last play, which begins previews March 1 at the Broadhurst Theatre.
Hanks will play Mike McAlary, a gutsy New York City newspaper columnist who won a Pulitzer Prize for exposing that a Haitian immigrant had been sodomized by police in 1997.
Tony Award nominee Courtney B. Vance has also has signed on to play McAlary's editor. The rest of the cast includes Hanks' former "Bosom Buddies" co-star Peter Scolari, Christopher McDonald, Peter Gerety and Michael Gaston. The director will be two-time Tony winner George C. Wolfe.
- 1/7/2013
- by AP
- Huffington Post
While the world eagerly awaits "Bosom Buddies: The Musical," the next-best thing will be coming to the Broadhurst Theatre early next year when Peter Scolari joins his former "Bosom" castmate in the Nora Ephron-penned play "Lucky Guy" next year. Scolari has signed on to play columnist Michael Daly in the play, which tackles the tabloid-journalism industry in tumultuous mid-'80s New York. Also read: Tom Hanks to Make Broadway Debut in New Nora Ephron Play Hanks will make his Broadway debut as controversial tabloid columnist Mike McAlary in the play, which will be directed...
- 12/13/2012
- by Tim Kenneally
- The Wrap
You may know Tom Hanks as Forrest or Woody, but what about Kip?
Back in 1980 – long before he was the most successful actor in Hollywood – Hanks starred as Kip Wilson in a cross-dressing sitcom called Bosom Buddies. The series only last two seasons, and aside from intermittent collaborations, Hanks and his co-star Peter Scolari haven’t really worked together since.
But that’s about to change. Producers announced yesterday that Hanks and Scolari are reuniting on the upcoming Broadway production of Lucky Guy, the Associated Press reports.
Written by the late Nora Ephron, Lucky Guy chronicles Pulitzer Prize-winning tabloid journalist...
Back in 1980 – long before he was the most successful actor in Hollywood – Hanks starred as Kip Wilson in a cross-dressing sitcom called Bosom Buddies. The series only last two seasons, and aside from intermittent collaborations, Hanks and his co-star Peter Scolari haven’t really worked together since.
But that’s about to change. Producers announced yesterday that Hanks and Scolari are reuniting on the upcoming Broadway production of Lucky Guy, the Associated Press reports.
Written by the late Nora Ephron, Lucky Guy chronicles Pulitzer Prize-winning tabloid journalist...
- 12/13/2012
- by Josh Stillman
- EW.com - PopWatch
New York (AP) — Tom Hanks' Broadway debut will include an old buddy — former "Bosom Buddies" co-star Peter Scolari will share the stage with the Oscar winner. Producers revealed Wednesday the rest of the cast appearing with Hanks in Nora Ephron's play "Lucky Guy," which begins previews March 1 at the Broadhurst Theatre. In addition to Scolari, the cast includes Christopher McDonald, Peter Gerety and Michael Gaston. Hanks will play Mike McAlary, a gutsy New York City newspaper columnist who won a Pulitzer Prize for exposing that a Haitian immigrant had been sodomized by police officers in 1997. Hanks and...
- 12/13/2012
- by Mark Kennedy (AP)
- Hitfix
Winter is coming to Broadway. And so is Emilia Clarke, the Khaleesi from HBO’s Game of Thrones, who will play Holly Golightly in a new adaptation of Truman Capote’s Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Richard Greenberg (Take Me Out), opening this spring.
In addition, Tom Hanks confirmed that he’ll make his long-overdue Broadway debut this season as the late tabloid columnist Mike McAlary in Lucky Guy, a new play by Nora Ephron (who died of leukemia in June).
Also booked for the Great White Way this spring: Eric Coble’s new comedy The Velocity of Autumn, starring...
In addition, Tom Hanks confirmed that he’ll make his long-overdue Broadway debut this season as the late tabloid columnist Mike McAlary in Lucky Guy, a new play by Nora Ephron (who died of leukemia in June).
Also booked for the Great White Way this spring: Eric Coble’s new comedy The Velocity of Autumn, starring...
- 10/13/2012
- by Thom Geier
- EW.com - PopWatch
Ralph Fiennes and Jason Schwartzman have joined the ensemble of Wes Anderson’s upcoming “The Grand Budapest Hotel.” The film also stars Bill Murray and Jude Law, with Anderson alumni Owen Wilson, Edward Norton, Willem Dafoe, Adrien Brody, and Jeff Goldblum rumored to be involved.Tom Hanks will make his Broadway debut next spring as real-life reporter Mike McAlary in “Lucky Guy,” written by the late Nora Ephron. And “Game of Thrones” star Emilia Clarke has been cast in the iconic role of Holly Golightly for the upcoming Broadway production of “Breakfast at Tiffany’s.”After stealing scenes in an episode of Ryan Murphy’s “Glee” last season, “White Collar” star Matt Bomer has booked a guest role as Andrew Rannells’ sexy ex-boyfriend on Murphy’s new NBC sitcom, “The New Normal.” Meanwhile, Ian McShane (“Deadwood”) has been added to the cast of Murphy’s FX drama series “American Horror Story: Asylum.
- 10/12/2012
- backstage.com
New York — Tom Hanks will play a gutsy New York City newspaper columnist when he makes his debut on Broadway in the spring.
Producers of Nora Ephron's play "Lucky Guy" announced Thursday that Hanks will play Mike McAlary in the stage biography. Hanks, a two-time Oscar winner, had been in negotiations for the role when Ephron died this summer.
Previews begin March 1 at the Broadhurst Theatre and an opening night is set for April 1.
McAlary, the city's one-time dominant tabloid reporter, got the first interview with Abner Louima, a Haitian immigrant who was sodomized and beaten by white police officers at a station house in 1997. McAlary would win the Pulitzer Prize the next year but would die of cancer a few months later at age 41.
The director of "Lucky Guy" will be George C. Wolfe.
In June, lead producer Colin Callender said his team could "think of no more...
Producers of Nora Ephron's play "Lucky Guy" announced Thursday that Hanks will play Mike McAlary in the stage biography. Hanks, a two-time Oscar winner, had been in negotiations for the role when Ephron died this summer.
Previews begin March 1 at the Broadhurst Theatre and an opening night is set for April 1.
McAlary, the city's one-time dominant tabloid reporter, got the first interview with Abner Louima, a Haitian immigrant who was sodomized and beaten by white police officers at a station house in 1997. McAlary would win the Pulitzer Prize the next year but would die of cancer a few months later at age 41.
The director of "Lucky Guy" will be George C. Wolfe.
In June, lead producer Colin Callender said his team could "think of no more...
- 10/12/2012
- by AP
- Huffington Post
Tom Hanks is to make his Broadway debut as celebrated Irish hack Mike McAlary in Lucky Guy - the last play written by legendary screenwriter Nora Ephron. The tabloid columnist was a legend in the New York newspaper business of the 1980s and turned his experiences into a series of best-selling books. From his sensational reporting of a major police corruption to the libel suit that nearly ended his career, the play dramatizes the story of McAlary’s meteoric rise, fall and rise again, ending with his coverage of the Abner Louima case for which he won the Pulitzer Prize.
- 10/12/2012
- Sky Movies
Tom Hanks has earned just about all the accolades you can earn as a movie actor, but he's never done Broadway in his career. That's about to change.
Hanks will star in "Lucky Guy," a play by the late Nora Ephron about Mike McAlary, a New York newspaper columnist who became famous for his reporting on the NYPD. McAlary won a Pulitzer Prize in 1998 for a series of columns on the Abner Louima case before dying later that year of colon cancer.
The play, according to the New York Times, will focus on "the scandal- and graffiti-ridden New York of the 1980s" as seen through the eyes of McAlary.
Ephron originally had conceived of "Lucky Guy" as a movie but then opted for the stage prior to her death in June. Hanks previously starred in two of Ephron's movies, "Sleepless in Seattle" and "You've Got Mail."
George C. Wolfe, a...
Hanks will star in "Lucky Guy," a play by the late Nora Ephron about Mike McAlary, a New York newspaper columnist who became famous for his reporting on the NYPD. McAlary won a Pulitzer Prize in 1998 for a series of columns on the Abner Louima case before dying later that year of colon cancer.
The play, according to the New York Times, will focus on "the scandal- and graffiti-ridden New York of the 1980s" as seen through the eyes of McAlary.
Ephron originally had conceived of "Lucky Guy" as a movie but then opted for the stage prior to her death in June. Hanks previously starred in two of Ephron's movies, "Sleepless in Seattle" and "You've Got Mail."
George C. Wolfe, a...
- 10/11/2012
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
Tom Hanks is to make his Broadway debut in 'Lucky Guy'. The 'Philadelphia' actor will portray award-winning journalist Mike McAlary in the play, which has been written by late Academy Award nominee Nora Ephron. The production charts the career highs and lows of the controversial tabloid reporter, who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1998 for his coverage on the police brutalisation of Abner Louima and died from colon cancer later that year. Two-time Tony Award winner George C. Wolfe is to direct the play, which will begin previews at the Broadhurst Theatre on March 1 2013, with the official opening night slated for...
- 10/11/2012
- Virgin Media - Celebrity
Tom Hanks is to make his Broadway debut in 'Lucky Guy'. The 'Philadelphia' actor will portray award-winning journalist Mike McAlary in the play, which has been written by late Academy Award nominee Nora Ephron. The production charts the career highs and lows of the controversial tabloid reporter, who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1998 for his coverage on the police brutalisation of Abner Louima and died from colon cancer later that year. Two-time Tony Award winner George C. Wolfe is to direct the play, which will begin previews at the Broadhurst Theatre on March 1 2013, with the official opening night slated for April 1. 'Lucky Guy' marks Tom's first stage performance since 1979, when he performed with the Riverside...
- 10/11/2012
- Monsters and Critics
Tom Hanks is taking his acting talent from the silver screen to the stage. The two-time Academy Award winning actor is slated to make his Broadway debut in Lucky Guy, a new play by the late three-time Academy Award nominee Nora Ephron. It will be directed by two-time Tony Award winner George C. Wolfe. Lucky Guy follows the career highs and lows of controversial NYC tabloid reporter Mike McAlary throughout his time as a journalist in the 1980s. McAlary's reporting won him the Pulitzer Prize in 1998 for his coverage on the police brutalization of Abner Louima. This isn't the first time Hanks and Ephron have partnered on a project. The two have multiple career connections that date back to the '90s,...
- 10/11/2012
- E! Online
Tom Hanks has officially signed to make his Broadway debut in Lucky Guy, the play Nora Ephron was writing when she died. He'll play Daily News columnist Mike McAlary, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1998 for his columns about police brutality and later died at age 41. Hanks had been circling the role since this spring, but producers didn't make an official announcement until today. The show's scheduled to go into previews March 1 and run through May 19, which is plenty of time for Tom Hanks to charm the hell out of everyone with fun, goofy, self-aware antics.
- 10/11/2012
- by Margaret Lyons
- Vulture
Tom Hanks has signed up to star in a new Broadway play written by the late Nora Ephron. The playwright had been working on Lucky Guy in the years leading up to her death in June. Hanks will make his Broadway debut as the New York tabloid columnist Mike McAlary in the world premiere of the play in March 2013. The Forrest Gump actor - who worked with Ephron on her movies Sleepless in Seattle and You've Got Mail - had already been in negotiations for the project at the time of her death. Ephron had been developing Lucky Guy as a movie, before adapting it for the stage. Mike McAlary was a hugely (more)...
- 10/11/2012
- by By Tom Eames
- Digital Spy
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