Students at G. Holmes Braddock Senior High School in West Miami-Dade staged a performance of 12 Angry Jurors on Feb. 9. The drama was a portrayal of a jury in a capita-murder trial and their struggle to overcome their individual prejudices,...

Fortunately, my father took me to several movies over 40 years ago, when I was only age 5 or 6 or so, that reflected the nobility of old Hollywood and that were deeply impressionable to me. The most celebrated of those movies we saw was Patton,...

"Fella, we got something special in Micron. We're leading the world. It's real. It's not just a bunch of bullshit. We're rolling out the chips," he says, eyes widening. Simplot has a growly, rolling, almost theatrical delivery--George C. Scott would do...

The iconic traveling salesman—played on Broadway in the past by Lee J. Cobb, George C. Scott, Dustin Hoffman and Brian Dennehy—this time falls to Philip Seymour Hoffman, left, the Academy Award winner for "Capote" who makes his fourth Broadway turn in...

But Otto Preminger saw it, and cast Gazzara in the 1959 all-star courtroom drama Anatomy of a Murder. Gazzara was the brassy Lt. Mannion, a Korean War veteran on trial for murdering a man who had raped his wife; James Stewart played his defense...

Paltrow, Judi Dench) as well as best picture. "That was a real coup for Miramax at the time, and for Harvey and Bob Weinstein," says Tapley of the indie studio's founders. "There was a lot of talk about how much they spent that year, but it was a big...