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It would have been a whole different vibe in the film Big if a major casting decision hadn’t come unraveled. Actress Elizabeth Perkins, who played adult Josh's love interest in the 1988 film, appeared on Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen and revealed that Robert De Niro was originally cast in the role that Tom…

The actress and filmmaker who went from recurring on The Odd Couple to starring in one of the biggest sitcoms of the 1970s to producing and/or directing studio features including Big and A League of Their Own has left us. Penny Marshall died Monday night at her Hollywood Hills home at 75, leaving behind a legacy of…

Penny Marshall, who went from starring on the smash Happy Days spinoff Laverne & Shirley to helming such features including Big and A League of Their Own, died Monday night of diabetes complications at her home in the Hollywood Hills. She was 75. Marshall also directed films including Riding in Cars with Boys, The Prea…

Tom Hanks, who’s been doing the late-night circuit to plug the opening of Inferno, reconnected with Zoltar on Late Show last night, and asked Big’s mechanical fortune teller to make him 30 years old again. Zoltar, aka Late Show host Stephen Colbert, reminded Hanks he’d learned a heart-warming lesson about age-envy in…

Robert Loggia, veteran character actor whose career spanned 6 decades and who received an Oscar nomination in 1986 for his role in Jagged Edge died Friday in Los Angeles, his family confirmed. He was 85. Born on Staten Island, New York in 1930, Loggia attended the University of Missouri and served in the US Army…

Big, the hugely popular 1988 comedy feature starring Tom Hanks, is getting a series remake at Fox. The network has put in development Big, a half-hour comedy from 20th Century Fox Television, whose movie division produced the Penny Marshall film written by Gary Ross and Anne Spielberg. Written and executive produced…