Peter Scolari

NEW YORK — In the program for "Lucky Guy," the play Nora Ephron raced to complete before her death last year, there's a note by the author titled "Journalism: A Love Story." That's a pretty good description of the drama, Ephron's valentine to...

Tom Hanks is one lucky guy. Maura Tierney -- a.k.a. Dr. Abby Lockhart from NBC’s "ER" -- will make her Broadway debut this spring in Nora Ephron’s final play, "Lucky Guy." Tierney will play the wife of Hanks, who will star in the drama about...

Toward the end of the first episode of HBO's "Girls," Hannah (Lena Dunham), in the hopes of persuading her parents to continue supporting her, hands them the half-dozen pages of the "book" she has been writing for the last two years. To finish this...

If you want something more challenging, there's a new episode of "Mad Men" at 10 p.m. Sunday on AMC. It follows a new episode of "The Killing" at 9 on AMC. A reader leveled a pertinent complaint at "The Killing": The photography is simply too dark at...

3 stars (out of 4) It's hard to calibrate magic, harder still to conjure it flawlessly, especially the magic of Christmas that a child experiences. In "The Polar Express," director Robert Zemeckis and star Tom Hanks try for that special combination of...

Great books for young children, and that includes Chris Van Allsburg's modern classic "The Polar Express," are united by the sense of pure wonder they evoke in readers of any and all ages. But wonder is a noticeably quiet emotion, and quiet is not what...