It may never be regarded as the greatest American film ever made, but RKO 281. -- Home Box Office's excellent new film depicting the making of Citizen Kane -- is certainly no slight to the theatrical that inspired it. The movie...
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. AP -- Conservative Christian broadcaster James Dobson beat out shock-jock Howard Stern and others in national online balloting for induction into the National Radio Hall of Fame. Dobson's "Focus on the Family" radio program is the first religious program to receive the honor, started...
ROSARITO BEACH, Mexico -- It started out as a 12-room hunting lodge in 1925 and for over eight decades it has had a magical hold on Baja California and the millions who have visited or stayed there. On August 2, the landmark Rosarito Beach Hotel...
Director of journeyman versatility The film and television director Joseph Pevney had an immensely varied career. First a child performer in vaudeville, he became involved in the left-wing Group Theatre in the Thirties and Forties. In Hollywood, he was an actor before becoming...
* Monterey, Carmel, Pacific Grove & Salinas Lodging and Attractions 100% Open BIG SUR, Calif. -- Big Sur area hotels, attractions and restaurants remain open while firefighters continue to work on containing the Basin Complex Fire. Some California State parks remain closed. As of July...
The Wrong Arm of the Law 1.35pm More 4 *** (Cliff Owen, 1963) Peter Sellers's last film before The Pink Panther made him a global star. It's an amiable crime caper, co- written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. He plays London crime...
Somers Town + Shane Meadows Q&A Sun 8.45pm A preview screening of the latest exercise in generous-hearted film naturalism by Shane Meadows. It stars young Thomas Turgoose from This Is England as a 16-year-old orphan who befriends a Polish boy on the streets...
WASHINGTON AFP — A popular seaside resort in the northeastern US state of Maryland is urging tourists to book vacations now before the ocean disappears altogether. Borrowing from the style of Orson Welles' 1938 radio announcement that Martians were landing on Earth, the ad features the...
Art Power, by Boris Groys, Cambridge, Mass., MIT Press, 2008; 185 pages, $22.95 hardcover. Guernica and Total War, by Ian Patterson, Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 2007; 199 pages, $22.95 hardcover. In spite of the war in Iraq, most citizens of the United...
The taxpayers of California are paying for a multibillion-dollar Institute for Regenerative Medicine, which specializes in embryonic stem cell research and other cutting-edge technology of the brave new world. Alan Trounson heads up the project and says in an interview that he was at...
Kenya's post-election troubles have taught the people why their media should not imitate the "yellow journalism" of the West, reports Wanjohi Kabukuru. "You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war, " These words by one of America's pioneer newspaper moguls, Randolph Hearst, have remained iconic...
What we have to remember, in judging the behavior of Mormon celebrities, is that the church teaches correct principles, but by and large we govern ourselves. When I got home from my mission back in 1973, the Donny and Marie phenomenon was in full swing. My family...
Richard Dreyfuss said it best. "John Wayne allowed us into our American past. [Charlton] Heston, because of his perfectly male face, the depth of his voice, the measured, almost antique rhythm of his speech, the oddly innocent commitment that allowed him to dive without looking into the role,...
When I left the rehearsal for our recent movie "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Separation of Church and State...But Were Afraid to Ask," I was consumed by the thought that this was the most interesting collection of people in one place that I have been with in...
EARTHA Kitt, that darling of decadent, glamorous Fifties Hollywood, is one of the last true dyed-in-the-wool stars of that bygone era still living today. In fact, this reviewer has loved her from afar for so long, she even called her cat after her (geddit?). ...
I'VE LONG BEEN amused and perplexed by parents who proudly announce that they are not going to "force" their religion on their children. "We'll let them decide for themselves when they grow up," they say. People seem to be so confused about what religion is. Some think...
It's All True: Orson Welles's Pan-American Odyssey by Catherine Benamou. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2007. 416 pp., illus. Hardcover: $60.00 and paperback: $24.95. Discovering Orson Welles by Jonathan Rosenbaum. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California...
Miracles and Sacrilege: Roberto Rossellini, the Church, and Film Censorship in Hollywood by William Bruce Johnson. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008. 448 pp., illus. Paperback: $35.00. Hollywood's Censor: Joseph I. Breen and the Production Code Administration by Thomas Doherty....
HE'S the biggest teen star on the planet and for the last two weeks he's been driving girls crazy - on the Isle of Man. Zac Efron, 20, the heart-throb from two smash hit High School Music films, has been filming a new movie in Douglas,...
Among this season's presidential candidates, Barack Obama has clearly had the edge when it comes to that magical quality known as charisma. Pundits of every political stripe have commented on Senator Obama's "rock-star quality." After meeting him, even the most jaded political reporters have been known to report that he...
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