[caption id="attachment_6415" align="alignright" width="250" caption="Scofield (left) as Thomas More in A Man for All Seasons in 1966"][/caption] During the nearly sixty years he graced stage and screen, ...

In May of 2002, the comic Bill Maher faced the studio audience of his long-running program Politically Incorrect for the first time since learning ABC was canceling the show. As he sometimes did, Maher began ...

It’s not easy being a villain in Narnia. Twice now, in the two movies based on C.S. Lewis’ beloved series, the bad guys begin with the whole world in their ...

A recent telephone call illustrates the problem. Deb Geissler of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, is working the phone bank for Barack Obama headquarters in her home state, when she reaches ...

Since his first, monotone date with cinematic history in 1986’s Ferris Bueller, Ben Stein has carved a public career out of slight, but reliably charming variations on a single character: himself. ...

The book is called Space Vulture, and it's a far-out, one-of-a-kind project, even by science fiction standards. The cover features a throwback, Flash-Gordon-style photo of a caped villain ...

A memory: I am three years old, watching MTV. A man on a stage wearing tight jeans and a white button-down shirt with the sleeves rolled ...

The children who show up for Kids ALIVE in Burlington's Old North End number between 40 and 50, and most range in age from about 8 to 16. Many ...

You’ll find her along the fence line of Memory Hill Cemetery, to the left. The grave sits in a family plot. There are Treanors and Clines—relations of her mother’s—and ...

It is the great peculiarity of the Church of Rome, that it presents to its worshipers an extraordinary variety of services, each of which has a special significance and ...

Writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood literally starts off with a thud. Only a few minutes into the film, set in late 19th and early 20th century ...

Justin Brandon has been weighing his options. The 25-year-old San Francisco resident recently applied to Stanford's highly competitive MBA program, but even if admitted, he isn't sure he wants ...

Most people respond to the approach of Christmas with a happy blizzard of activity. They lick stamps and fix them to final flurries of Christmas cards. They bake. They ...

"Rome is burning, son!" So says Professor Stephen Malley (Robert Redford) to a disaffected student named Todd in Redford's new film, Lions for Lambs. It's an alarming ...

How much of your life do you owe to the ones who love you? What are your obligations to the imperfect people who raise and ...

Saints are most commonly seen in two dimensions, as they appear in devotional artwork. Frozen in stained glass or canvas, they serenely eye the heavens as their hands ...

You have to hand it to the Irish. Every March 17th, they put on the party of the season. Celtic or not, everybody celebrates St. Patrick’s Day. I am ...

Robert Ellsberg had some explaining to do. When his book All Saints appeared in 1997, readers celebrated its fresh take on the lives of "365 saints, prophets and witnesses for ...

It seemed like only a year ago we had buried the Super Bowl censorship debate for good. When Paul McCartney took the stage with his piano in ...