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Daily Mail
17-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
She was in Sleepless In Seattle, is married to an Oscar winner and has a WILD reality TV star son, who is she?
She had a role opposite Meg Ryan in the movie Sleepless In Seattle. And this brunette beauty has appeared in several other films such as Volunteers, Jingle All The Wat and My Big Fat Greek Wedding. When she popped up in a small role in the Yellowstone prequel 1883 with pals Faith Hill and Tim McGraw, fans were surprised. This looker is also a talented singer who has come out with many albums, and has a new song named It's Too Late out this summer. She is perhaps best known for being married to an A-list Oscar-winning movie star. On Thursday the Los Angeles resident shared a flashback photo from her youth where she wore a sunny smile and fresh tan along with a white tank top and cut-off blue denim jeans. Who is she? She is Rita Wilson, 68, who is married to Tom Hanks. It's Too Late is a redo of the Carole King version. Along with her flashback photo Rita shared a look at her new song cover and added this caption: 'Yep, This is me back when I was wearing out Carole King's Tapestry record! 'Now I have my own version of It's Too Late out in the world. Never thought that would happen! You can stream it wherever music is available!' Wilson's music career includes the albums AM/FM (2012), Halfway to Home (2019), and Now & Forever: Duets (2022). Rita also works as a film producer; she's credited with the box-office hit My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002) and involvement in the Mamma Mia! film series. Tom we d Rita in 1988. Hanks already had two children from a previous marriage, Colin and Elizabeth Hanks. She has two sons with Hanks, Chet (a reality TV star and actor) and Truman. Wilson was born in Los Angeles to Greek parents who raised her in the Greek Orthodox faith. Her career began with a guest appearance on The Brady Bunch in the 1972 and she also twice appeared on M*A*S*H in 1982 as Nurse Lacey. Next came Three's Company and Bosom Buddies starring her future husband Tom and Frasier. She has appeared in numerous films, including Volunteers, Barbarians at the Gate, The Bonfire of the Vanities, Mixed Nuts and Sleepless in Seattle. Then came Now and Then, That Thing You Do!, Jingle All the Way, Runaway Bride, Invisible Child, The Story of Us, Raise Your Voice, It's Complicated and Larry Crowne. In 2006, Wilson made her Broadway debut when she performed the role of Roxie Hart in a revival of Chicago. Wilson's debut solo album AM/FM was released in 2012. In 2016, Wilson released her self-titled album. With her third album, Bigger Picture, Wilson drew directly from her personal life for its theme; it was released in 2018. In 2019, Wilson released her fourth album, Halfway to Home. In 2022, Wilson announced her duets album Now & Forever, a collection of 70s covers with male vocalists.
Yahoo
07-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Notoriously Private Barbra Streisand, 83, Gets Personal on Anniversary: ‘Inspiring'
Notoriously Private Barbra Streisand, 83, Gets Personal on Anniversary: 'Inspiring' originally appeared on Parade. In a post shared to the singer's Instagram account, she wrote, 'We met on a blind date 29 years ago tonight, and we married 27 years ago today. I love you honey. B xo.' Barbra Streisand, whose new album The Secret Life of Partners: Volume Two was just released on June 27, celebrated her most important partnership—her marriage to actor James Brolin. Streisand is notoriously private, but the reclusive singer is not shy about sharing her adoration for husband. In honor of the couple's 27th wedding anniversary, the 83-year-old singing and acting legend offered a sweet social media tribute to Brolin. The singer finished the caption with a sweet heart emoji. Streisand's famous friends quickly joined the comment conversation, celebrating Barbra Streisand and James Brolin's long-lasting and 'inspiring' romance. Singer and actress Rita Wilson wrote, 'So much love to you both,' while designer Donna Karan added, 'Love you both so so much a wedding a friendship I'll never forget.' Streisand's legions of fans also joined in. 'True love. You two are so inspiring,' wrote one. Another shared, 'My favorite celebrity couple.' They are pretty cute. 🎬SIGN UP for Parade's Daily newsletter to get the latest pop culture news & celebrity interviews delivered right to your inbox🎬 Notoriously Private Barbra Streisand, 83, Gets Personal on Anniversary: 'Inspiring' first appeared on Parade on Jul 1, 2025 This story was originally reported by Parade on Jul 1, 2025, where it first appeared.
Globe and Mail
02-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Globe and Mail
Lena Dunham on her new show Too Much, the allure of New York and TV's double standard
I love Lena Dunham. She's generous with her candour, despite the vitriol of her haters. She wants to get to the bottom of what she notices, even if the bottom isn't the prettiest place to be. With her new Netflix series, Too Much (arriving July 10), she gives us a messy heroine at a messy moment in her life – messy meaning human – and invites us to ponder whether all those romantic comedies we've internalized are good for us or not. Jessica, played by Megan Stalter (the overconfident nepo-baby agent on Hacks), is a fledgling producer at a New York commercial agency. She has a loving but chaotic family – grandmother (Rhea Perlman), mother (Rita Wilson), older sister (Dunham) – and a callous ex-boyfriend (Michael Zegen), who stopped loving her and then found countless ways to blame her for it. She accepts a short-term assignment at the London office, where her co-workers, led by Richard E. Grant, dismiss her in new, British ways. And then she meets Felix (Will Sharpe), a musician whose own screwed-up-ness is disguised by his dreamboat exterior. Jessica's three-steps-forward, two-back progress is mirrored by the flashbacks Dunham employs to deepen her story, and Stalter is as physically and emotionally fearless as Dunham herself was on her previous series, the zeitgeist-grabbing Girls. Reader, she made me cry. Yeah, yeah, parts of Too Much sound semi-autobiographical: Dunham made some blunders amplified by social media; moved from New York to London in 2021 (I recommend her New Yorker essay about breaking up with the city she grew up in, as the child of two artist parents); met and married a musician, Luis Felber, who co-created the series. But name a decent piece of art that isn't. Here are highlights from a recent video interview with Dunham. What questions were you asking yourself while writing Too Much? I was trying to look at and deconstruct the influences that gave me my idea of what being an adult woman is supposed to look like. As a kid I was obsessed with The Mary Tyler Moore Show, That Girl, Gidget. That unflappable, 'She's always getting herself into a sticky situation and getting herself out of it.' In your 20s, you don't know what you're supposed to be like; that's what Girls was about. Once I hit 30, I started thinking about all these 'supposed-tos,' and the ways in which my life didn't look like that. I remember calling my mother, really upset: 'I see all these women in the street, it's seven in the morning and they've already exercised and made their own coffee at home and the coffee is in a canister, and I cannot get out of bed before 9:30 if I'm not working, and that's on a good day.' I realized that Mary Richards, if she was around now, would definitely make herself a smoothie and put on exercise pants and a matching vest, because Mary was equipped and ready. I had this consistent feeling of being behind, being unprepared. Looking around the room, thinking, 'There's supposed to be an adult here' – oh god, it's me. So I wanted to centre in a romantic comedy a woman who realistically struggles with the things I and many people I know struggle with. Minus the montage of her suddenly cleaning her apartment and blowing out her hair and she's ready for life. There's a beautiful moment where Felix tells Jess he loves her body. How important was that to you? It was important to me and to Meg that whatever Jess is beating herself up about, it's not about what her body looks like. We talked a lot about how to do it. I've dated people who said a version of this to me: 'I don't want you to worry, your body not being size zero is not a problem for me.' They may have said it lightly more elegantly than that, but only lightly. When I met my husband, 'Don't worry' was not a part of the dialogue. The compliments were never, 'Insert light neg, but.' He never said anything that made me feel like there was another reality in which I could look a different way. I didn't realize I'd been missing that until I had it. Because even the body positivity movement is saying, 'Don't worry, it's okay.' What if we just took all that out of the picture? Did moving to London reawaken you creatively in the way you hoped it would? Yes. Although I published that essay about leaving New York, then promptly headed back to shoot all over the city all summer. It was the most me thing ever. My timing has never been ideal. I met my husband in London, that was obviously a big thing. I've found great collaborators here. But it also created some space for me to reimmerse myself in reading, watching films, painting. Girls was an amazing but all-encompassing experience. New York is such a productivity-based culture, it's easy to forget that you can't drive a car that's out of gas. I feel lucky in a way that my chronic health condition told me that I was burnt out. Typically for you, you've been open about your Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, endometriosis and fibromyalgia. It doesn't always feel like a luxury when you get sat on your butt by your own body turning against you. But it was a luxury to be able to pause. Let's talk about this maddening phenomenon where women who write some version of their experience get dismissed as limited, while men who do the same are hailed as authentic. I do get frustrated, not even on my own behalf, because I so often see women or queer people who are making things that are deeply developed pieces of work, which are being treated like they're attention-seeking tweets. It's hard for some people to believe that I got into this for reasons other than attention or fame. But truly, I don't even like compliments that much; they stress me out and make me turn red, and I immediately have to turn around and compliment the other person. I'm always like, 'Am I making enough of an appreciative face that they'll think I'm humble, but also like the compliment?' The reason I do any of this is the work. Do the harsh comments bother you? If I make you so angry, please go find something you enjoy. There's more content than there's ever been. I actually cannot relate to the way people act as if they're having their eyes held open and images forced into their brains like in Clockwork Orange. I wouldn't even click on a picture of Trump on Insta. There's an Easter egg in the final episode of Too Much, where we hear your voice call 'cut.' You sound so happy. It's a bit embarrassing, I sound like I'm a fourth-grader directing a school play. But my directing style is enthusiastic. I really get in there with actors, we're working it out, I'm gesticulating a lot. I'm super collaborative; I hire people I love and trust and try to give them a lot of agency. I can't help but notice that men are often treated like auteurs, whereas people will ask me stuff like, 'Were you in the editing room?' Of course I'm there. There's this assumption that the craft, the aesthetic, aren't yours, and my favourite part is the craft. Tell me a craft-related story. When I directed the film Catherine Called Birdy – A fantastic film, starring Bella Ramsey. On Netflix. On the first day, I showed up early to walk through the medieval village alone. I will never forget it as long as I live. It was my favourite book when I was 10, I wanted to make it for 25 years, and there I was, walking in a village we created. I cannot believe this is my job. I hope everyone who works on my sets feels that way: 'I can't believe that we get to do this together.' This interview has been edited and condensed.
Daily Mail
01-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Barbra Streisand shares love story of how she met husband James Brolin to celebrate 27th wedding anniversary
Barbra Streisand made a rare personal post on social media Tuesday for a very romantic reason. The 83-year-old multi-hyphenate, who revealed she was angry at not receiving equal pay on big Hollywood projects, wished her husband James Brolin, 84, a happy anniversary. 'We met on a blind date 29 years ago tonight, and we married 27 years ago today. I love you honey. B xo. ❤️' she wrote next to a throwback photo of the two. Best wishes poured in from around the world. 'So much love to you both!!!!' wrote Rita Wilson. 'Love you both so so much a wedding a friendship I'll never forget our journeys I'll never forget from Israel to Bali to Spain to Italy New York and LA Congratulations my loves miss you all so always in in my heart and soul ❤️love ❤️ forever and ever Happy happy anniversary' gushed Streisand's go-to designer Donna Karan. 'Happy Anniversary!!' penned celebrity photographer Kevin Mazur. The couple did indeed meet on a blind date. They were setup at a dinner party thrown by mutual friends. 'Everyone could see it immediately,' Brolin's manager Jeff Wald told McCalls in 1998. 'They didn't look up, they didn't talk to anyone else, I don't even think they ate. And then at the end, they left together.' Because of the attention that followed the People singer everywhere, the couple would go driving in Brolin's truck for dates, often driving an hour or so away to San Bernardino county, California with the Ransom Canyon actor behind the wheel and Streisand making sandwiches in her lap. 'Barbra's really never done any of that kind of stuff. She's never really seen that side of America,' he told the now-defunct magazine. One interesting tidbit bout the couple is they remained celibate before tying the knot, and he asked her to marry him three times before she said yes. 'I have to try him out for at least three years,' she joked in an interview with CBS Morning anchor Gayle King. And while promoting her book, My Name is Barbra a couple of years ago, she explained how the two inspired an extremely popular rock ballad. In an interview on The Howard Stern Show she revealed she and Brolin were lying in bed, enjoying a little pillow talk. 'I don't want to fall asleep because then I'll miss you,' the actor told his beloved. It was at that moment the Evergreen singer agreed to his most recent proposal saying, 'OK, yes, I'll marry you.' Streisand shared that story in an interview on 20/20 with Barbra Walters in 1997 and songwriter Diane Warren learned about it. Warren verified the anecdote in an interview with Shortlist in 2016. 'Someone told me there was an interview with Barbra Streisand and her husband and he had said how he doesn't like to go to sleep, you know, if he misses her and I was like, "Wow that's a cool idea for a song if I can figure that out," and that's where I got the title from. She and Brolin were lying in bed, enjoying a little pillow talk. 'I don't want to fall asleep because then I'll miss you,' the actor said and she accepted his most recent proposal saying, 'OK, yes, I'll marry you'; Pictured in Beverly Hills in February 2019 The song was included over the closing credits of the film Armageddon. 'And I kept it in the back of my head and when that movie came round I thought, "You know, I'm gonna write this song because it could be about the end of the world - it could fit that storyline or it could fit this love story."' I Don't Want To Miss a Thing debuted at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 and is Aerosmith's only number one song to date. The hit also received an Oscar nomination for Best Original Song. The couple seem to have made up for the years of celibacy before their marriage. In an April appearance on Today, Brolin revealed 'The best investment we ever made is our mattress,' adding 'We love to sleep late. We (also) do a lot of our work — on the phone, on paper, reading — right next to each other.'
Yahoo
27-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Chet Hanks Gives Tom Hanks a Shoutout For Appearing in His Music Video: ‘Love You, Dad'
Chet Hanks is thankful to get to work on the "Forrest Gump"-themed music video for his band's new album with "the most easygoing dude ever" — his Oscar-winning dad. Chet Hanks, 34, who makes up half the country music duo Something Out West with musician Drew Arthur, spoke on TODAY June 24 about his father, Tom Hanks, appearing in the video for their song "You Better Run." "Oh, man, he's a real prima donna," Hanks joked to Jenna Bush Hager and guest co-host Niecy Nash-Betts about working with his father. "I'm just kidding. He's the most easygoing dude ever. Love you, Dad." Chet Hanks re-creates his father's title character in "Forrest Gump" in multiple scenes in the video for "You Better Run," which dropped in March. At the end of the clip, Tom Hanks pops up next to him on a bench. Arthur recalled the surreal feeling of being on the set with the two-time Oscar winner for the video. "It was funny because I had to do a scene before him, and he's just standing there. And I was like, 'Tom was waiting for me,'" Arthur said. Chet Hanks is the third of four children Tom Hanks shares with wife Rita Wilson, whom he married in 1988. Chet Hanks and Arthur performed their song "Leaving Hollywood" on TODAY from their new EP of the same title. The country music sound is a departure from Hanks' previous musical releases as a rapper. "I think it was necessary," Hanks said about changing genres. "Not that I don't love rap still because I do, but when I got sober I had to switch it up. There was too much association with my old (life)." Arthur is "almost 10 years sober" and said the duo have "been having each other's back" in maintaining their sobriety. Hanks has also gotten back into the family business, as he played Travis Bugg, the point guard for the fictional Los Angeles Waves, on the Netflix sports comedy hit "Running Point," starring Kate Hudson. "It's about time," Hanks said about having a moment as an actor. "It's been a long road. I'm grateful for everything that's happened and where I'm at." This article was originally published on
