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Joan Didion, the author of five novels including the National Book Award-winning The Year of Magical Thinking who also excelled in essays and has screenwriting credits including the 1976 version of A Star Is Born, died Thursday of complications of Parkinson’s disease in Manhattan. She was 87.

Carmel Dagan Staff WriterJoan Didion, the author revered for her coolly dispassionate essays and novels such as “Play It as It Lays,” has died, her publisher confirmed to The New York Times on Wednesday. She was 87.

according to the New York Times.The Pulitzer Prize nominee was 87 at the time of her death.Representatives for Didion’s publisher Knopf did not immediately respond to TheWrap’s request for comment Thursday.More to come…

Joan Didion has sadly died.

Manic Street Preachers have shared a clip of a new song – you can listen to it below.The preview was shared on the group’s social media accounts today (May 10), and features lines from a Joan Didion quote alongside some images which include a neon red light against a bench, a beach and some electricity pylons.The quote reads: “I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at and what it means.

Addie Morfoot ContributorOver the course of her legendary career, Alice Lee “Boaty” Boatwright has cast iconic movies, served as a studio exec and repped starry talent including Joan Didion, Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward. Reflecting on it today, she says her career really took off after a pivotal encounter at Sardi’s restaurant more than 60 years ago.

Emma Roberts is giving fans a peek at her baby boy! The 29-year-old actress took to Instagram on Monday to share a sweet snap with her son, Rhodes, whom she welcomed in December with her boyfriend, Garrett Hedlund. In the precious pic, a smiling Roberts snuggles up with baby Rhodes while reading Joan Didion's latest book, .The black-and-white photo provides fans the first glimpse at Rhodes' face, whose adorable profile is visible as he rests on his mom's chest.«Rhodes meet Joan,» Roberts

Although Emma Roberts‘ baby is less than a month old, that doesn’t mean he can’t start appreciating some of the finer selections of literature. Emma, 29, not only gave fans the first look at the face of her and Garrett Hedlund’s son, Rhodes, on Jan.

“Let Me Tell You What I Mean,” by Joan Didion (Alfred A.

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NME cover star branches out from the downbeat alt-folk of her 2018 debut album, exploring millennial dread with a broader sonic palettePhoebe Bridgers has previously said that Joan Didion – the acclaimed author who skewers a particularly chaotic strain of boredom sun-stained by California glare – was on her mind as she wrote ‘Punisher’. And like Didion, Bridgers captures the everyday figments of life with a bleak smirk.

The film that gave Al Pacino — an Oscar nominee in this year's best supporting actor race for The Irishman — his first starring role was 1971's The Panic in Needle Park.He wasn't the only participant in the film who went on to big things.Park was produced by Dominick Dunne, who decades later would become famous for his writing in Vanity Fair.

Anne Hathaway enjoyed a rare public night out with her husband, Adam Shulman, on Monday night. 

After “Pariah” and “Mudbound,” director Dee Rees returns to the Sundance Film Festival with her next feature, “The Last Thing He Wanted,” a political thriller based on a 1996 Joan Didion novel. The adapted screenplay follows a reporter named Elena McMahon (Anne Hathaway) and her photojournalist friend (Rosie Perez) as they chase a complicated story off the coast of Costa Rica.

Netflix has released the new trailer for Dee Rees’ new film The Last Thing He Wanted. Rees’ last film was the superb Mudbound from a couple of years back. That movie also debuted on the streaming platform.

Anne Hathaway and Ben Affleck are coming together for the first time in the new Netflix political thriller,. The streaming platform debuted the first trailer for Dee Rees’ adaptation of the Joan Didion novel about various characters caught up in the Iran-Contra scandal.