The evening stars are Mercury, Neptune, Venus, Jupiter and Uranus. Those born on this date are under the sign of Aquarius. They include Englishman William Talbot , a developer of photography, in 1800; inventor Thomas Edison in 1847; boxer Max Baer and...

I've written plenty about the problems afflicting Joseph L. Mankiewicz's. But the multi-region British Bluray is visually beautiful, and if you can somehow make yourself ignore the film's elephantine, glacially-paced, dialogue-driven nature and just...

Think of male ghosts in the movies, and you're more likely to summon up fond memories of rufty-tufty Rex Harrison as Captain Gregg in Joseph L Mankiewicz's sublime The Ghost and Mrs Muir, in which he is pipe-sucking protector and literary muse to...

2. The screenwriters had Clark Gable in mind for the male lead of "Woman of the Year," but then MGM player Spencer Tracy became available. He'd been committed to a production of "The Yearling" that suddenly fell through. (It would be made a few years...

These sections were co-directed by Sydney Lumet and Joseph L. Mankiewicz. The documentary was nominated for the an Academy Award in the Best Documentary category in 1970 and was deemed "culturally significant" by the United States Library of Congress...

Region 2 British Bluray of Joseph L. Mankiewicz's tediously talky Cleopatra ('63) will be available in three weeks. The 20th Century Fox release opened in '63 so where do they get off calling it a 50th anniversary edition? I hate to admit this but I'll...