Maureen Lee Lenker

Author Maureen Lee Lenker

Maureen Lee Lenker is a senior writer at Entertainment Weekly with over seven years of experience in the entertainment industry. An award-winning journalist, she's written for Turner Classic Movies, Ms. Magazine, The Hollywood Reporter, and more. She's worked at EW for six years covering film, TV, theater, music, and books. The author of EW's quarterly romance review column, "Hot Stuff," Maureen holds Master's degrees from both the University of Southern California and the University of Oxford. Her debut novel, It Happened One Fight, is now available. Follow her for all things related to classic Hollywood, musicals, the romance genre, and Bruce Springsteen.

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Latest from Maureen Lee Lenker

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Bowen Yang in Wicked (screen grab)
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Juror #2 Toni Collette
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Chanel Cleeton
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Shirley MacLaine and Morgan Freeman
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Alexandra Breckenridge as Mel Monroe, Martin Henderson as Jack Sheridan in episode 602 of Virgin River.
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