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Tom Hanks to make his Broadway debut

NEW YORK

Tom Hanks will play a gutsy New York City newspaper columnist when he makes his debut on Broadway in the spring.

Producers of Nora Ephron’s play “Lucky Guy” announced Thursday that Hanks will play Mike McAlary in the stage biography. Hanks, a two-time Oscar winner, had been in negotiations for the role when Ephron died this summer.

Previews begin March 1 at the Broadhurst Theatre, and opening night is set for April 1.

McAlary, the city’s one-time dominant tabloid reporter, got the first interview with Abner Louima, a Haitian immigrant who was sodomized and beaten by white police officers at a station house in 1997. McAlary would win the Pulitzer Prize the next year but died of cancer a few months later at age 41.

‘Bachelor’ couple expecting baby

NEW YORK

One of the few couples from ABC’s “The Bachelor” franchise to marry is expecting their first child. Jason and Molly Malaney Mesnick’s baby is due in March.

People.com first reported the news. Thirty-six-year-old Jason Mesnick confirmed the report on Twitter.

The couple met on the 13th season of “The Bachelor.” Molly was actually the runner-up to the winner Melissa Rycroft. Mesnick proposed to Rycroft but ended up breaking up later, saying he still had feelings for Molly. The two married in February 2010.

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