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'Love Story' stars Ali MacGraw, Ryan O'Neal reunite at Harvard
Love Story stars Ali MacGraw and Ryan O'Neal reunited Monday, more than 45 years after the romantic drama opened in theaters.

The 76-year-old actress and 74-year-old actor, who played Jenny Cavalleri and Oliver Barrett IV, visited Harvard University -- the place where their characters first met -- arriving in an MG convertible reminiscent of their car in the movie.

MacGraw and O'Neal visited the campus to reflect on the film and promote their play Love Letters. The A.R. Gurney play, directed by Gregory Mosher, launched a national tour in 2015, and will run Feb. 2 to 7 in Boston.

"Ryan and I clicked immediately," MacGraw told the audience. "I just think we have a chemistry and a caring for each other."

Love Story opened in 1970 and follows the doomed romance between the working-class Jenny and upper-class Oliver. MacGraw previously told People it feels "great" to reunite with O'Neal decades later, saying their "chemistry has not changed."

"We still feel the same about each other," the actress said. "Ryan is so funny, so good and he is such a star, that I am terrified and excited to be reunited with him on stage."

"Working together again is a dream come true," O'Neal added. "Ali is an original. She is giving and sensitive to others, and we have never had an argument or cross word all of these years."

Love Letters, which debuted off-Broadway in 1989, will continue to tour into June. MacGraw is also known for playing Natalie Jastrow on The Winds of War and Lady Ashley on Dynasty, while O'Neal portrayed Max Keenan on Bones.


LOOSE LIPS:
"I have been controlled by potatoes for 40 years. Any kind of fried potato, baked potato, scalloped potato - oh my god. Of all the accomplishments that [I] made in the world, all the red carpets, and the awards and those things that I've done. The fact that I could close the bag and not take another chip - it's major for me."
--Oprah Winfrey, on her food vice, in a private Q&A session with Weight Watchers members


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Which Academy Award Winning Actress deemed the Oscar controversy 'heartbreaking'?


Kristen Wiig, Chris Hemsworth featured in new 'Ghostbusters' photos
A new collection of photos featuring Chris Hemsworth, Kristen Wiig and the rest of the Ghostbusters crew show each star completely immersed in their characters.

Also featuring Melissa McCarthy, Leslie Jones and Kate McKinnon, the photos from the Paul Feig-helmed remake include ominous black and white movie posters and apparent screen shots from the upcoming movie.

Sony released the photos on the official movie website Wednesday.

One photo shows Thor actor Hemsworth dressed in a vest, short-sleeved shirt and striped tie in front of his character's receptionist desk. Wiig, McKinnon, Jones and McCarthy are seen in both the posters and in screen shots of them in their ghost-hunting characters' everyday attire.

The photos come as soon as Feig announced the first full trailer for the film will be out "around the end of this month."


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Which Academy Award Winning Actress deemed the Oscar controversy 'heartbreaking'?

Actress Halle Berry says the lack of diversity among this year's Academy Award nominees is "heartbreaking."

Still the only African-American woman to have won an Oscar for Best Actress, Berry, 49, mentioned what she called "the elephant in the room" during Tuesday's Makers Conference.

"I believed that in that moment, that when I said [in my acceptance speech], 'The door tonight has been opened,' I believed that with every bone in my body that this was going to incite change because this door, this barrier, had been broken," she said, according to a report by People.

"And to sit here almost 15 years later, and knowing that another woman of color has not walked through that door, is heartbreaking," she continued. "It's heartbreaking because I thought that moment was bigger than me. It's heartbreaking to start to think maybe it wasn't bigger than me. Maybe it wasn't. And I so desperately felt like it was."

Since Berry accepted her Oscar in 2001 as the Academy's first African-American Best Actress winner, only three other black actresses have been nominated in the category, including Gabourey Sidibe, Viola Davis and Quvenzhaè Wallis. This year, the Academy nominated all white actors and directors, save for director Alejandro G. Iñárritu for The Revenant.

President Barack Obama recently weighed in on the "#OscarsSoWhite" controversy, which has prompted actors like Will Smith and Jada Pinkett-Smith to boycott the awards show, saying the overall debate is "really just an expression of this broader issue: are we making sure that everybody is getting a fair shot?"