Candice Bergen will be at the JCC in Manhattan on November 10 to talk about her life and career (photo by Jonathan Becker)
Who: Abigail Pogrebin and Candice Bergen
What: “What Everyone’s Talking About with Abigail Pogrebin: Candice Bergen”
Where: JCC in Manhattan, 334 Amsterdam Ave. at Seventy-Sixth St., 646-505-4444
When:Wednesday, November 18, $25, 7:30
Why: Journalist and would-be actress Abigail Pogrebin, the author of Stars of David: Prominent Jews Talk about Being Jewish and One and the Same: My Life as an Identical Twin and What I’ve Learned about Everyone’s Struggle to Be Singular, has sat down at the JCC in Manhattan with such celebrities and newsmakers as Alan Cumming, Roseanne Cash, Malcolm Gladwell, Danny Meyer, and Judy Collins for her ongoing series of intimate conversations, “What Everyone’s Talking About with Abigail Pogrebin.” On November 18, she’ll be joined by Candice Bergen, the Emmy-winning, Oscar-nominated star of such television shows as Murphy Brown and Boston Legal and such films as The Group and Carnal Knowledge. Bergen, who was married to director Louis Malle for fifteen years and has now been married to real-estate developer Marshall Rose for the same amount of time, will be focusing on her recent memoir, A Fine Romance (Simon & Schuster, April 2015, $28).