Melissa McCarthy stars in ‘dream project’

One humid night last June, on a dock along one of this port city’s winding creeks, Melissa McCarthy and Kathy Bates took their places for a scene in the new movie Tammy. Five years earlier, McCarthy and her husband, Ben Falcone, had written the role with Bates in mind – the Oscar winner was to deliver a needed dressing down to McCarthy’s title character, a perennial screw-up.

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Music lies beyond the veil

A former nun who re-entered the secular world after being sexually abused by a priest is now trying her hand at singing, songwriting and recording. Pauline Grogan, 69, performed her first 10-song concert on June 2 at Pinehurst School on Auckland’s North Shore where she still does some relief teaching and hopes to have her CD, Songs of Life, ready for sale by the end of the year.

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