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CORRECTION APPENDEDOn a wintry morning last month, Julie Andrews and her daughter Emma Walton Hamilton breezed into the Jim Henson Company's Creature Shop in Queens, where they warmly greeted puppets [...]

Byline: LEAH ROZEN Correction Appended On a wintry morning last month, Julie Andrews and her daughter Emma Walton Hamilton breezed into the Jim Henson Company's Creature Shop in Queens, where [...]

Laverne Cox was on the 102nd floor of One World Trade Center, gazing north through the floor-to-ceiling windows. Manhattan's skyscrapers glinted in the midday sunlight. ''I've been missing New York [...]

Mike Birbiglia and Keegan-Michael Key were laughing -- hard. Mr. Birbiglia's laugh was a repetitive bray: ''A-heh, a-heh, a-heh.'' Mr. Key's was a louder Woody Woodpecker cackle that kept climbing [...]

Stephanie Danler was ready to start drinking. ''Hey, Chris, can we open these?'' she asked Chris Bordeaux, an aptly named manager of Uva, a cozy wine and spirits store in [...]

Right now on Broadway, audience members can glimpse the behind-the-scenes frenzy at an elite eatery in the comedy ''Fully Committed.'' And a ticket to the musical ''Waitress'' opens a window [...]

When Joe Morton was just starting out as an actor, his grandmother came to see him in the original Broadway production of ''Hair.'' At that performance, he played the cop [...]

Jeff Daniels adjusted his reading glasses and bent close to peer at a framed baseball card from 1909 featuring Honus Wagner, a legendary shortstop for the Pittsburgh Pirates. ''It's so [...]

I'm 57 but look like an old lady. That's because my hair is gray. Or at least I must have looked ancient to the millennial at the ticket booth at [...]

NICOLE KIDMAN, movie star, Oscar winner and red-carpet regular, recently played a cow. Talk about your glamour roles. The performance was for an enactment of ''Jack and the Beanstalk,'' which [...]

SALLY FIELD likes the Welsh actor Matthew Rhys, she really likes him. For five seasons, Ms. Field, the Oscar-winning actress, played Nora Walker, mother to Mr. Rhys's caustic character, Kevin [...]

LOS ANGELES TOM CRUISE gave his longtime pal Cameron Crowe a jump-start -- no couches involved -- when he needed it most. Mr. Crowe, the writer and director whose new [...]

ON a rainy afternoon last month, Elizabeth Olsen apologized profusely for pushing back by more than an hour a luncheon interview at a restaurant in the Gramercy Park neighborhood of [...]

THE Academy Awards ceremony on Feb. 27 will be the first one in years at which the veteran publicist Ronni Chasen won't be expertly shepherding a client down the red [...]

NIGEL COLE, the British director of 2003's ''Calendar Girls,'' was only half joking when he said, ''In England we only make films about the working class or the aristocracy.'' His [...]

TORONTO RACHEL McADAMS, a 31-year-old Canadian actress who lives here in a house she shares with her younger brother when she's not off shooting movies, has long held a green [...]

LONDON WHEN Rebecca Hall was 10, her father sat her down for a serious talk. Peter Hall, the venerable British theater and opera director, told her she had a choice [...]

OLIVER PLATT was having a Marcel Proust moment. His madeleine stand-in? Cilantro. ''You taste it and suddenly you're remembering other times you had it and where,'' said the actor, familiar [...]

MOST husbands call their wives to ask what cut of steak to bring home from the grocery store. Elizabeth Gilbert's husband rang her from Vietnam and asked, ''Do I have [...]

JOY BEHAR officially gave up teaching three decades ago for a career as a stand-up comic, but this former high school English teacher still feels the need to instruct. ''Do [...]

THE BASICS For years, the modestly priced Hotel Shangri-La in Santa Monica, Calif., was a fraying but funky Art Deco gem. Sheets were rough and the carpet stained, but it [...]

TOM HANKS is on the line. ''What am I,'' he joked, ''just another in your long line of I Love Julia calls?'' Well, yes, as it happens. Call around to [...]

RYAN, Ryan, Ryan. It's Journalism 101: who, what, when, where and why, as in, ''Who are you wearing?'' Did Ryan Seacrest, 35, let down the fourth estate -- or at [...]

JOAN RIVERS was not impressed with the flouncy tea-length Zac Posen dress that Tina Fey sported at the Golden Globes earlier this year. ''I hope she was going for laughs, [...]

THE BASICS Like the women of a certain age who shop at the nearby Fred Segal store, the Huntley Santa Monica Beach has been hoping to transform itself from dowdy […]

'IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT' almost didn't. Only days before shooting was to begin, this 1934 screwball comedy, now a classic, lacked a leading lady. Established draws like Myrna Loy, Margaret […]

AT least Nora Ephron steals from the best. 'You've Got Mail,' the writer-director's forthcoming romantic comedy with Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan, is a cyberspace remake of 'The Shop Around […]