Lake, Ricki (1968—)
Billed as an "Oprah Winfrey for Generation X," Ricki Lake has a career and well-publicized personal life that have run parallel to those of rival Winfrey. Howe...
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There's nothing like your first time.
“I’m not going to go into mine,” actress Keri Russell told us last night, referring to the birth of her son, River Russell Deary. (What did y...
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Today is Friday, Sept. 21, the 264th day of 2007. There are 101 days left in the year. The Jewish Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur, begins at sunset.Today's Highlight in History:On Sept. 21, 1938, a hu...
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9:30 a.m. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Edrogan will ring The Opening Bell at the New York Stock Exchange at Exchange and Broad streets.
10 a.m. The 2007 Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meet...
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John Travolta fans finally have their two big wishes: His return to movie musicals after almost 30 years and his first role as a plump Baltimore housewife.Travolta heads the bill in a new productio...
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Now that Rosie O'Donnell has exited stage left, "The View" must find someone to fill her seat and somehow match her watercooler appeal. That won't be easy, but there's a lineup of famous ladies who...
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The world probably didn't need another film version of John Waters' 1988 romp "Hairspray" any more than it needed a Broadway musical version of it. The whole cycle reeks of that movie-of-a-stage-pr...
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From the first time she saw "Hairspray" on Broadway, Nikki Blonsky was dying to play its plump, sparkling teen heroine, Tracy Turnblad.At 16, Blonsky was too young when she auditioned for the stage...
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Celebrity birthdays for the week of Sept. 16-22:Sept. 16: Actress Lauren Bacall is 83. Blues singer B.B. King is 82. Actor Peter Falk is 80. Singer Betty Kelly of Martha and the Vandellas is 63. Dr...
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The ladies of "Hairspray" are a rarity in fat-phobic Hollywood, whose obsession with willowy women is so strong the idea of a corpulent heroine is almost unheard of.The new big-screen musical, with...
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Lake, Ricki (1968—)
Epidurals Under Siege! Keri Russell Puts Muscle Behind Drug-Free Birth
