Mike Nichols was a great actors' director. He made some excellent camera choices, but what set him apart from his peers was his con...

I was shocked and saddened to see that Philip Seymour Hoffman had died. He was an extremely talented, versatile and intelligent actor w...

I was sad to see that James Gandolfini had died at the relatively young age of 51. To expand on what I've written elsewhere, I saw...

The 2012 Screen Actors Guild Awards were held this past weekend. You can see the list of nominees and winners here . As usual, there are s...

Congratulations to the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center for their well-deserved Regional Theater Tony Award ! The Regional Theater award h...

When Martin Luther King, Jr. went down to Memphis in 1968, it was to assist with a garbage worker's strike. Two workers had been slowly...

Roughly a year ago now, a friend of mine had a great idea for her birthday party. She'd thrown some great bashes before, but for this o...

( Cross-posted at The Blue Herald ) (Nigel Hawthorne as Lear.) Shankar Vedantam wrote a great piece for today’s Washington Post titled, “W...