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JENNY HALPER

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The Secret Life of Bees

A throwback, coming-of-age film
The real heroine is Dakota Fanning, an actress capable of conveying guilt, nerves, and idealism all at once.

By: JENNY HALPER | October 16, 2008

Priorities, rediscovered

In her first book, actress Debra Winger focuses on home, not Hollywood
Instead of checking into rehab, the actress spoke her mind.

By: JENNY HALPER | June 19, 2008

No Reservations

Author John Burnham Schwartz on adapting his novel, Reservation Road
Rage itself becomes a monster.

By: JENNY HALPER | October 18, 2007

Fierce People

Poor city-kid meet plain ridiculous
Griffin Dunne’s 2005 film is like The Great Gatsby with Jay as an old coot whose grandchildren attack the help with spears.

By: JENNY HALPER | September 19, 2007

Alan Alda talks to us about his new memoir and what it means to live a successful life
There’s a scene in Alan Alda’s new memoir that’s hard to forget: Hawkeye, age eleven, shooting terminally ill rabbits to a bloody, dusty death.

By: JENNY HALPER | September 07, 2007