Donna Hanover later attended Stanford University, and graduated in 1972 with a Bachelor of Arts in political science.
18 Facts About Donna Hanover
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Donna Hanover met Harvard University graduate Stanley Hanover at Stanford in 1968 and the two were married after her graduation in 1972.
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Donna Hanover then attended the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and graduated with a master's degree in journalism.
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Donna Hanover began working for WPIX in 1983, and was the lead anchor for the station's 7:30 pm weeknight newscast for much of the second half of the 1980s.
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Donna Hanover appeared on the syndicated The Wall Street Journal Report.
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Donna Hanover left her anchor role during Giuliani's unsuccessful 1989 bid for mayor to go on maternity leave.
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Donna Hanover left WPIX entirely in 1990, and did some freelance work for WNYW in 1992 and 1993.
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Donna Hanover branched out into acting, having a prominent role as real-life presidential sister Ruth Carter Stapleton in the 1996 film The People vs Larry Flynt; noted critic Frank Rich called her performance brilliant.
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Donna Hanover appeared in the feature film Ransom that same year as a WNYW reporter.
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Donna Hanover had not been informed and was surprised by the news.
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In 2003, Donna Hanover married Edwin Oster, an attorney practicing in Newport Beach, California.
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In 2005, Donna Hanover published the book My Boyfriend's Back: 50 True Stories of Reconnecting with a Long-Lost Love, relating her story as well as those of others who had rejoined with lost loves.
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Donna Hanover did fill-in work for New York radio station WOR for several years, then joined it on a full-time basis in February 2006, working first with co-host Ed Walsh and then as of August 2006 with Joe Bartlett.
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Donna Hanover worked as an adjunct professor at New York University's Department of Journalism.
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Donna Hanover was in the films Superstar with Will Ferrell in 1999, Keeping the Faith with Edward Norton in 2000, Someone Like You with Ellen Barkin in 2001, and Interview directed by Steve Buscemi in 2007.
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Donna Hanover played a Senator opposite John Goodman in an episode of Alpha House in 2014, and appeared in the TV comedy Odd Mom Out in 2015 and 2016.
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Donna Hanover made her Broadway debut in 2012 in Gore Vidal's The Best Man, directed by Michael Wilson and starring James Earl Jones, Angela Lansbury, John Larroquette, and Candace Bergen.
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Donna Hanover continues her work as a journalist at CUNY TV which she joined in 2011.