Loretta Castorini (Cher) is a 37-year-old widow living in Brooklyn Heights with her Italian family. Her boyfriend-turned-fiancee, Johnny Cammareri (Aiello), is set to return to Sicily to be with his ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In honor of Olympia Dukakis, we take an in-depth look at this film that she helped make a classic From the family gatherings in ...

When director Norman Jewison was casting the Loretta Castorini role in Moonstruck (1987), he had only one actor in mind: Cher. Though other stars were more popular (or considered “safer” for leads in ...

Michael Block is a 14 time GLAM Award nominated writer, producer, and host of the podcast Block Talk. Throughout his time in the entertainment industry, he has worked on and off Broadway as a stage ...

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“I live in Brooklyn. By choice,” wrote Truman Capote when such a choice needed to be justified. The year was 1959, the essay was “A House on the Heights,” and the neighborhood was Brooklyn Heights.

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Oscar-winning actress Olympia Dukakis, whose deadpan turn as Cher’s Italian mother in the movie smash “Moonstruck” boosted the theater veteran to sudden Hollywood stardom, died Saturday morning in New ...