Stephen Colbert and Julia Louis-Dreyfus swapped stories about “Saturday Night Live,” Northwestern University, “Seinfeld” and the possibility of running for office during a Q&A held Saturday as part of Montclair Film Festival’s annual “Evening with Stephen Colbert” fundraiser.Colbert, a Montclair resident, has long been a booster of the festival, which is going into its ninth year in May. More than 2,800 people turned up on Saturday for the benefit at Newark’s Performing Arts Center’s Prudential Hall.“Since you’ve played Selina Meyer...
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There are few better ways to stage a cancer comeback than to land yet another in a history of Emmy nominations, as Louis-Dreyfus did this year. The showbiz vet is tied with Cloris Leachman with eight individual Emmys (plus three for executive producing her HBO hit “Veep,” which wrapped this year). What a joyous way to rebound following a 2017 breast cancer diagnosis — the following year, after receiving treatment and posting regular updates on her battle via social media, she revealed she was cancer free. And the winning (in all senses of the word), cheerful Louis-Dreyfus is far from done: In 2020, she’ll star in the “Force Majeure” remake, “Downhill,” and lend a key voice to the Disney/Pixar original film “Onward.”