Tearjerkers

The Semiotics of Sparks

This week, the Nicholas Sparks movie The Last Song, starring Miley Cyrus, arrives in theaters-just a month after his Dear John. The plot includes divorce, piano-playing, a distant father, a small Georgia beach town, stained-glass windows and, well, more letter-writing. 

Mr. Sparks, 44, has written 15 novels, six of which have been made into movies-rather Read More

Nicholas Sparks: “That Paragraph Takes Me 10 Hours to Write”

Six years after starring together in Unfaithful, Diane Lane and Richard Gere reunited in the weepy love story Nights in Rodanthe (based on a book by king of sentimentality Nicholas Sparks), which premiered at the Ziegfeld Theatre Tuesday, Sept. 23. 

Walking the carpet alongside the pair were Law and Order SVU‘s Christopher Meloni, Harry Connick Read More