The stress of getting your words on a page whether a computer or real paper is behind you, and now the next stage begins — revising. But you probably thought that you didn’t have to write any more words. You are partly correct. The revising portion of the writing process sometimes ...

“Nine Perfect Strangers” (Flatiron Books), by Liane Moriarty Life is good for Liane Moriarty. The “Big Little Lies” novelist who partnered with actress Nicole Kidman to turn that book into a hit HBO series, sold the rights to her new novel, “Nine Perfect Strangers,” to her ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Elton John said he stood by the stage and sobbed at his foundation’s gala last year as Aretha Franklin made her final public performance. “I was shocked to see how thin she was, and she just smiled her sweet smile at me and said, ‘I didn’t want to let you down,’” ...

TORONTO (AP) — Julia Roberts and Sissy Spacek, two big-smiling big-screen legends, were remembering the first time they met. It was when Roberts, then 13, took a trip to New York to visit her older brother, the actor Eric Roberts, who was making 1981’s “Raggedy Man” with Spacek and ...

Wow and double wow to director Julie Costantini, producer Steven Gustafson, and choreographers Jennie Cross and Jordan Spencer for an outstanding production of “Newsies,” presented at Jamestown Community College’s Scharmann Theatre. The play, written by Harvey Fierstein, with composer ...

CORONA, Calif. (AP) — Jimmy Page once painted a dragon, and used it to slay. The guitar guru was so bursting with creative inspiration 50 years ago that he felt compelled to pick up a brush and use his skills from art school to take poster paints to his favorite instrument, a 1959 Fender ...