Local News: Ashburn, VA 

 | 

Sign Up

 | 

Sign In

Laura Linney News Editors

News Widget

Display the Laura Linney news headlines on your website.

Get the Topix Headlines Widget

Share & bookmark

RSS icon mobile icon

Laura Linney News

News about Laura Linney continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.

Monday May 20 | Hollywood Reporter

Laura Linney on the Poignant Value of 'The Big C'

After four seasons, Laura Linney bids farewell to Cathy Jamison, her alter ego for 40 episodes on Showtime's The Big C , which over the course of its run put the spotlight on the courageous struggles of those who have faced cancer and the loved ones sharing in the journey.

Comment?

Related Topix: The Big C, Entertainment, Television, Celebrities, Phyllis Somerville, Emmy Awards

Thu May 09, 2013

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Wash. festival celebrates writer Raymond Carver

An inaugural festival celebrating the life and work of short story writer Raymond Carver opens Thursday in Port Angeles, where he died in 1988.

Comment?

Related Topix: Port Angeles, WA, Celebrities, Gabriel Byrne

Mon May 06, 2013

The News Journal

Limo that went up in flames had extra passenger

'The Big C: Hereafter,' at 10 tonight on Showtime is its final stretch now. Cathy has ceased chemotherapy for her cancer, and the Sache Boutique, a new women's wear specialty shop at 91 Wilmington West Chester Pike in Chadds Ford, Pa., will hold a grand opening celebration The winner of the 2013 Small Business Exporter of the Year for Delaware is ... (more)

Comment?

Related Topix: The Big C, Entertainment, Television, Celebrities, San Mateo County, CA, San Mateo, CA, Hayward, CA, Foster City, CA

National Public Radio

Linney Mines 'The Big C' For Serious Laughs

Laura Linney and Alan Alda star in The Big C , now in its fourth season on Showtime.

Comment?

Related Topix: The Big C, Entertainment, Television, The Squid and the Whale, Drama Movies, Comedy Movies, Crime Movies, Tales of the City, Mystic River, You Can Count on Me, Mystery Movies, Celebrities

Mon Apr 29, 2013

York Dispatch

The end is growing near on 'The Big C'

The cancer comedy "The Big C" wraps up its final season in four episodes. It's not hard to see where this is going.

Comment?

Related Topix: The Big C, Entertainment, Television, Gabourey Sidibe, Celebrities, The Following, Oliver Platt, Drama

Philly.com

For Showtime drama, 'C' is for closure

WHEN "THE BIG C" premiered on Showtime in the summer of 2010, I wasn't exactly in the mood for a show about a woman with terminal melanoma.

Comment?

Related Topix: The Big C, Entertainment, Television, Celebrities, Idris Elba, Reid Scott

Reuters

Linney, "Mad Men," Sofia Coppola to receive Women in Film awards

Actress Laura Linney, the female cast members of TV drama "Mad Men" and directors Sofia Coppola and George Lucas were named on Monday as winners of Hollywood's annual Crystal and Lucy Awards, which honor women's achievement in film.

Comment?

Related Topix: Mad Men, Entertainment, Drama, Television, Celebrities, True Grit, Western, Drama Movies, Adventure

E! Online

American Horror Story: Gabourey Sidibe Joins the Coven

Creator Ryan Murphy announced the casting news on Twitter, tweeting , "Thrilled to announce Oscar nominee Gabourey Sidibe is joining the cast of American Horror Story: Coven ." Sidibe, who currently stars alongside Laura Linney on The Big C , joins fellow AHS newcomer Kathy Bates for the highly anticipated new season, which will film on location in ... (more)

Comment?

Related Topix: Gabourey Sidibe, Celebrities

Examiner.com

Gabriel Basso talks growing up on 'The Big C', previews the series' end

Gabriel Basso 's first credited role as a professional actor is "Kid with Cancer" in a film from half a decade ago, but he has matured as an actor playing a kid of cancer on Showtime's The Big C . As Adam Jamison, the sometimes petulant teenage son of Laura Linney 's Cathy, Basso rode the emotional roller coaster of typical angst straight off its ... (more)

Comment?

Related Topix: The Big C, Entertainment, Television, Gabriel Basso, Celebrities

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Laura Linney Says Goodbye to The Big C

When it comes to acting, Laura Linney knows no fear. She has embodied everyone from steely First Lady Abigail Adams in HBO's John Adams to FDR's mousy cousin/lover in the A recent biopic Hyde Park on Hudson .

Comment?

Related Topix: Hyde Park on Hudson, The Big C, Entertainment, Television, John Adams, Celebrities, Emmy Awards, Oncology, Medicine

HeraldNet

Best bets this week on TV

Tonight On "How I Met Your Mother," it's time for Barney's bachelor party. Of course, it will be legendary as long as Mom and Ralph Macchio don't ruin his "bro mitzvah." 8 p.m., CBS.

Comment?

Related Topix: How I Met Your Mother, Comedy, Entertainment, Television, Neil Patrick Harris, Frances Conroy, The Big C, Celebrities

Sun Apr 28, 2013

Genesee Country Express

The Big C Bosses Reflect on the Final Season: We Ended It the Way We Wanted To

The Big C 's creator and executive producer Darlene Hunt -- much like the series' heroine, Cathy Jamison -- isn't afraid to tell it like it is.

Comment?

Related Topix: The Big C, Entertainment, Television, Celebrities

The Fresno Bee

Final episodes of Showtime's 'The Big C' begin tonight.

The title of Showtime's "The Big C" has been changed slightly for the four one-hour final episodes that begin at 10 p.m. today.

Comment?

Related Topix: The Big C, Entertainment, Television, Celebrities

Sat Apr 27, 2013

Star Tribune

TV picks for April 26-May 2: "The Big C,” "Queen of Versailles,” "Family Tools”

"The Big C" , TV's most underappreciated series, says goodbye with four one-hour episodes, starting with this one that marks the return of Alan Alda.

Comment?

Related Topix: The Big C, Entertainment, Television, Celebrities

Genesee Country Express

'Big C' returns for a final transcendent and eloquent season

What's the best way to die? If you said cancer, you'd be right. Yes, it's slow, painful and mentally challenging, but it also allows you the time to put your affairs in order, make amends and, most importantly, lends you the opportunity to tell your friends and family one last time that you love and cherish them.

Comment?

Related Topix: The Big C, Entertainment, Television, Celebrities, Gabourey Sidibe

Thu Apr 25, 2013

Canada.com

The Big C tackles the long hereafter

From the beginning, the alternately lighthearted and hard-hitting drama about a fit, active woman diagnosed with stage IV melanoma was emblematic of the new wave of TV dramas that strive to mirror life, good and bad, in sickness and in health.

Comment?

Related Topix: The Big C, Entertainment, Television, Emmy Awards, Crime Movies, Drama Movies, The Truman Show, Mystic River, You Can Count on Me, Mystery Movies, Celebrities

Wed Apr 24, 2013

TV Squad

Laura Linney Gives John Benjamin Hickey ... A Hickey

One lesson learned on Tuesday night's episode of " Watch What Happens: Live " about Laura Linney ? If you challenge " The Big C " star to do something on live television, no matter how weird it is, she just might do it! The poll of the night asked if Linney should give her fellow guest, and "Big C" co-star, John Benjamin Hickey his namesake: a ... (more)

1 comment

Related Topix: The Big C, Entertainment, Television, Celebrities, John Benjamin Hickey, Watch What Happens: Live