by Deborah Wilker | Mar 25, 2019 | Articles, Featured, Interviews, Music, Stage
THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER | 6:00 AM PDT 5/11/2017 by DEBORAH WILKER NEW YORK — With nine Tony nominations, a tuneful score from Oscar-winners Benj Pasek and Justin Paul (La La Land), and mobs of kids outside hoping for a glimpse of rising star Ben Platt, the...
by Deborah Wilker | Mar 19, 2019 | Articles, Athletes, Featured, Interviews
CITY & SHORE: Town Hall | Dec. 2014 By DEBORAH WILKER Entering the second month of the new season, Miami Heat guard Mario Chalmers seems to be adjusting well to his new role as a reserve player. The two-time NBA champ says he sees his new job as one in which he...
by Deborah Wilker | Mar 18, 2019 | Articles, Featured, Interviews, TV and Film
TRIBUNE PUBLISHING | Sept. 2013 Story By DEBORAH WILKER Photos By HOWARD STERN Howard Stern has spent many a radio hour professing his love for Florida. The weather. The air. The lack of chaos (compared to New York, anyway). He’s mused often about retiring here or...
by Deborah Wilker | Mar 17, 2019 | Articles, Athletes, Featured, Interviews
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by Deborah Wilker | Mar 2, 2019 | Articles, Biz, Featured, Interviews, Music
BILLBOARD | 11/13/2017 by Deborah Wilker Mariah Carey was just settling into life as a pop superstar when her producers came to her in 1994 with an idea: How about a Christmas record? Initially, Carey was not enthused. “I felt like it was a little bit too early...
by Deborah Wilker | Mar 1, 2019 | Articles, Featured, Interviews, Stage, TV and Film
SOUTHFLORIDA.COM | Oct. 11, 2016 12:49 PM | SOUTH FLORIDA SUN-SENTINEL | Oct. 14, 2106 By DEBORAH WILKER Sarah Silverman didn’t mean to coin a catch phrase. But when she lectured Bernie Sanders’ extremists at the Democratic National Convention in July...
by Deborah Wilker | Feb 28, 2019 | Articles, Featured, Interviews, TV and Film
TRIBUNE PUBLISHING | July 2013 By DEBORAH WILKER It doesn’t take much to get Jeffrey Dean Morgan in the mood. “You just kinda walk around here and the attention to detail is such that I put on my tie, and my awesome suits, I step onto my set – and I can practically...
by Deborah Wilker | Feb 27, 2019 | Articles, Featured, Music, Reviews
BILLBOARD | Tues. June 27, 2017 By DEBORAH WILKER LOS ANGELES — The Queen + Adam Lambert experiment — which began tentatively in 2012, three years after the legendary U.K. band joined the American Idol finalist on stage during the show’s season finale, and...
by Deborah Wilker | Feb 23, 2019 | Articles, Featured, Interviews, Stage, The '90s
Editor’s note – Feb. 23, 2016: When Joan Rivers died (senselessly) on Sept. 4, 2014, I had been asked by a colleague to assist with research for her obituary. Opening joanrivers.com that day, I was floored all over again. Rivers’ planned itinerary...
by Deborah Wilker | Feb 20, 2019 | Articles, Featured, Interviews, Music
The last 10 years of Sheryl Crow’s life play like something from sad, sad country song. Busted romances, bad men, breast cancer, single motherhood, a brain tumor. Then in 2013, another blow: Rogue ex-boyfriend and dethroned Tour De France champ Lance Armstrong had...
