Julia Roberts has returned to acting with a vengeance this fall on both the big screen, with Ben Is Back, and small screen in Amazon’s much-acclaimed Homecoming, which should be an Emmy juggernaut come summer and has already earned Roberts nominations for Lead Actress in a Drama Series at both the Golden Globes and…

Pretty Woman: The Musical and The Boys in the Band broke house records last week as Broadway’s box office held steady into the summer’s dog days. Total b.o. for the 31 shows climbed a tad to $37,289,893, about 2.4% over the previous week, with attendance of 277,794 showing a slight dip of an identical percentage.

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Garry Marshall, a giant of TV comedy whose long list of credits include such landmark series as Happy Days, The Odd Couple and The Dick Van Dyke Show, has died. He was 81. He also helmed 18 feature films including Pretty Woman, and had acting credits dating to the 1960s. His publicist Michelle Bega said Marshall died…

EXCLUSIVE: As he works on the Broadway musical adaptation of Pretty Woman, the film he directed 25 years ago, Garry Marshall has signed with ICM Partners. He had been at CAA. Marshall separately is casting his next film, Mother’s Day, which is being mounted as an indie and will shoot this summer. Marshall continues to…

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EXCLUSIVE: " 'Eff You!’ " I answered. Garry Marshall already knew when he asked me, but he wanted to see whether I knew what I was talking about. We were discussing Neil Simon, who I said had written the all-time funniest line ever. "Which line?" Marshall asked…

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