Charles Shyer, who was Oscar-nominated for co-writing “Private Benjamin” with Nancy Meyers and went on to direct a string of hit comedies including “Father of the Bride” and “Baby Boom,” died Friday. He was 83. His family said in a statement to Deadline, “It’s with an indescribably heavy heart that we share the news of […]
Charles Shyer, the director and Oscar-nominated writer who teamed with then-wife Nancy Meyers on such audience-pleasing, feel-good comedies as Private Benjamin, Irreconcilable Differences, Baby Boom and Father of the Bridehas died. He was 83. Shyer died Friday, his family announced. No other details were immediately available. The son of veteran assistant director Melville Shyer, one […]
They wed on October 19, 2024, at Annie’s farm in Rhinebeck, New York. The date was a meaningful one to Beth: “We chose October 19 as it felt kismet to be on a Saturday in peak fall, as well as my grandparents Marilyn ‘Bubu’ and Samuel Leibovitz’s wedding anniversary,” she says. “They got married October […]
In 2008, eighth grader Gaby Novogratz did something bold: she friended Zach Spohler, a cute boy from another New York private school, on Facebook. For nine months, they scrolled through each other’s tagged photos and wrote on each other’s “walls.” Finally, after what Gaby calls some “expertly orchestrated high school scheming,” they met for the […]
