This is FRESH AIR. Our film critic Justin Chang has a review of the new movie "Can You Ever Forgive Me?" It's adapted from a memoir by Lee Israel, a New York writer who in the early 1990s began ...

Melissa McCarthy at the Whitby Hotel in New York. *Melissa McCarthy defied all odds growing up. Her father moved the family from the South side of Chicago to a farm thinking she would live her life in ...

This candor about worry, direct from Leonore Israel’s 2008 memoir Can You Ever Forgive Me? Memoirs of a Literary Forger, would not seem to be the stuff of big-screen entertainment. But that chronicle ...

Join 24,000 of your neighbors and stay in tune with the Triangle. McCarthy plays Lee Israel, a misanthropic writer in New York City who once made the bestseller lists with biographies of Tallulah ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. David Yarnell, producer of the Melissa McCarthy- and Richard E. Grant-starring Can You Ever Forgive Me? movie and a slew of early ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. David Yarnell, the producer of the critically acclaimed film “Can You Ever Forgive Me?,” died Jan. 28 in his home in Los Angeles.