“If you push me I’ll break your arm,” says journalist Sam Kiley to a hostile Iraqi bureaucrat at Tuwaitha, an…
Television
The perishability of humor is on display in The Sid Caesar Collection, a PBS presentation that features seven skits by…
With several prestigious awards, including two Golden Globes, under its first season’s belt, the second season of the HBO series…
Buzzed: The Straight Dope About the Most Used and Abused Drugs from Alcohol to Ecstasy (1998) The Politics of Ecstasy…
The PBS series Frontline has aired documentaries on all sorts of "controversial" subjects over the years, and they’ve finally gotten…
American Collection page on The Ponder Heart It’s been said that Eudora Welty was more comfortable writing short stories than…
William Shakespeare’s the Merchant of Venice (Modern Critical Interpretations) (2000), Harold Bloom (Editor) Masterpiece Theater lives up to its name…
Mother About to Wash Her Sleepy Child Mary Cassatt,1880 other Sister Wendy videos: Bill Moyers In Conversation With Sister Wendy…
This doesn’t look like an Allison Anders movie. Anders, the writer-director of Gas Food Lodging, Mi Vida Loca and Crazy…
Unlike The Sopranos, to which Six Feet Under tends to be unfavorably compared, HBO’s new series about the lives and…
Lovers of Marion Zimmer Bradley’s feminist reimagining of the Arthurian legend, first published in 1982, have no doubt been awaiting…
Sleeveless, scoop neckline shell in satin fabric with back invisible zipper – rust, gold or olive Mervyn Peake’s Gormenghast trilogy…
How many times will screenwriters continue to think they’re doing something new and innovative by dribbling out Westerns that feature…
The inspirational teacher movie has been a tried-and-true staple since at least 1939, when Goodbye, Mr. Chips boosted Kleenex sales…