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Lena Dunham to Create New Comedy

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Based on a memoir by famed Bergdorf personal shopper Betty Halbreich.

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All that dancing on her own paid off. On the heels of two Golden Globe wins, Girls writer, producer, and star Lena Dunham is rumored to be pairing up with coproducer Jenni Konner to create a new comedy. Based on an upcoming memoir All Dressed Up and Everywhere to Go, the show would be centered around the life of its author, Betty Halbreich. At 85, Halbreich is still operating the Bergdorf-based personal-shopping enterprise that she launched in the mid-’70s. Described as “part Angela Lansbury and part Lucille Ball," Halbreich has dressed stars from Sarah Jessica Parker to Meryl Streep.

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