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Mia Farrow and Patti LuPone have been friends for 30 years. “We are different,” said LuPone. “I’m sort of, I guess you’d say I’m pepper, she’s sugar. Or agave or honey, and I’m paprika. Do you know what I mean?” “I wouldn’t have thought of the food element, probably, or the spice element,” Farrow laughed. “But that’s not wrong! I …

In the 1970s, the height of the blaxploitation film era, Pam Grier was the undisputed queen of the genre, and one of the few female lead action stars ever. To the movie-going public, she really was a one-woman hit squad – a gun-toting goddess who made her name in films like “Coffy,” “Sheba, Baby,” and the immortal “Foxy Brown,” where …

In 1943 Vincent Speranza, the son of Italian immigrants, enlisted when he turned 18. “I decided to be a paratrooper when I found out that that would probably be the fastest way to get into the battle,” he said. “We were innocent kids who weren’t ready for what was coming, let me tell ya’.” He fought in the Battle of …

It’s been more than 40 years since Kyra Sedgwick first appeared on TV, on the soap opera “Another World.” She recalled her lines from her first scene: “Oh, my God: ‘I’m on the road with a rock group, Grandma. It’s called The Deep Six’,” she laughed. “I was 16 years old, and that’s when I fell in love with acting.” …

In 2020, NASA’s Perseverance rover launched for Mars with a stowaway: a tiny drone, created by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. The drone, named Ingenuity, was likened to a Wright Brothers’ plane on Mars, making the first flight on another planet. The entire drone had to be very light, because Mars has only 1% of the atmosphere of …

It’s been almost 20 years since Dan Rather signed off from the anchor desk here at CBS News. Of the so-called “Big Three” TV anchormen back in the day, watched by some 50 million people a night, Rather was there the longest, almost a quarter-century. In his 44 years with CBS, Rather held every post a network reporter could: bureau …

The music coming from a North Hollywood studio might not be familiar – yet – but you’ve definitely heard that voice. Recently Kate Hudson was fine-tuning her songs, for her new album, “Glorious.” It’s a role the singer-songwriter was born to play. Asked how long she’s been writing songs, Hudson replied, “Really poorly, my whole life! I guess I wasn’t …

By Washington Post book critic Ron Charles Here are four new books to check out this spring. In 2016, the world fell in love with an immensely charming novel by Amor Towles, called “A Gentleman in Moscow.” And now, with the adaptation starring Ewan McGregor streaming on Showtime, anticipation is running high for Towles’ next book. Step this way: “Table …

Who, besides Percival Everett, would have a pet crow named Jim Crow? “When he was on my shoulder, when I wrote the novel ‘Erasure,’ if I wasn’t paying enough attention to him, he would march down my arm and peck at the keys,” Everett said. “So, I do credit him for having written some of the novel.” Consider the irony …

Doris Kearns Goodwin is a rare presence on our national stage – an historian with academic cred and pop-culture cachet. Her work, of course, is serious, but she shares it with joy, and sometimes a laugh, as when she made an entrance on “The Late Show Starring Stephen Colbert” on a litter carried by Lincoln impersonators. “It’s fun when a …