Carol Channing, Still Delightfully ‘Larger Than Life’
Whenever the late New York Times caricaturist Al Hirschfeld sketched Carol Channing — whether picturing her as an indomitable Dolly …
Stephen Colbert Wants You To Know: That’s Definitely Not His SuperPAC
Comedy Central’s Stephen Colbert is running for president. He’s parodying the process — including, now, superPACS — in the same …
‘Coriolanus’: A People’s Hero Turns On His Own
Ralph Fiennes showed up for a frenzied cameo near the end of Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker, and her hand-held, …
Soderbergh’s ‘Haywire’: A Star Is Born, Fists Flying
Back in the heyday of the pure action movie, you started with the star and worked your way backward toward …
Fox International Finds That Not Everyone Wants To Buy What Hollywood Sells
Remember that movie Sarah’s Key? Did you miss it? It was last year’s highest grossing foreign-language film, but it made …
Who Exactly Is ‘The Real Romney’?
In a new biography, two longtime Boston Globe reporters write about Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney as a complicated man …
Let’s Rush To Judgment: ‘Friends With Kids’
Rarely has anyone assembled a cast more perfectly pitched to … well, me, than Jennifer Westfeldt, the writer and director …
‘The Odds’ Stacked Against A Struggling Couple
Love is a gamble. So, for that matter, is writing. What are the odds that Stewart O’Nan, oracle of the …
‘Would It Kill You To Stop Doing That?’ Rethinks Rude
We’ve all witnessed bad manners: The rider who showers the bus with his uncovered sneeze; the woman who cuts into …
Michael Fassbender: Portraying An Addict’s ‘Shame’
In the past year, actor Michael Fassbender has played a mutant villain in X-Men: First Class, psychoanalyst Carl Jung in …











