Last night I was transformed back to my newspaper days, long before the Internet was born. We went to see Tom Hanks in Lucky Guy on Broadway. He plays Mike McAlary, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and columnist who worked at the New York Daily News for 12 years. He became larger than life for his expose’ on Abner Louima, the victim of unspeakable New York police torture in 1977. The play was written by the late Nora Ephron, (May 19, 1941 – June 26, 2012) who wrote Silkwood, When Harry Met Sally, Sleep in Seattle, and Julie and Julia. The star-studded cast, Maura Tierney (his wife Alice) , Christopher McDonald, Peter Gerety, Courtney B. Vance, Peter Scolari, and Richard Masur all portrayed well-known reporters and editors who worked with him.

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