When Dolores Hart, 73, walks the red carpet at this year's Academy Awards as planned, no interviewer will need to ask who made her dress. She will be wearing her nun's habit from the Benedictine Abbey of Regina Laudis in Bethlehem, Conn. , where she lives

Even today, nearly 60 years later, there’s no denying the intensity of On the Waterfront. The story focuses on Terry (Marlon Brando), a corrupt New Jersey dockworker who grows a conscience and blows the whistle on the crooked union boss who ruins his lif

Lucky the child of 40 years ago who was introduced to the last great wave of the old. The Academy Awards are next weekend, and undoubtedly a dwindling audience will watch, if declining movie profits are any indication. Old Hollywood, though liberal, once

As part of the 100th Anniversary of Universal Pictures, the studio is remastering a series of classic library titles for Blu-Ray, including a 50th Anniversary edition of To Kill a Mockingbird (1962), which comes out today. The movie has become embedded i

My husband’s father, David Max Rubin, passed away yesterday at the age of 93. He was one of four children. His eldest brother and sister were born in the old country. His parents owned a general store complete with soda fountain and open barrels of candy

In the news Catherine Zeta-Jones gets CBE Read more... 'I've got it beat' Michael Douglas says of throat cancer Read more... Michael Douglas is primarily regarded as an actor while his work as a producer of films such as ‘One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest’

Douglas has a long association with the theatre company - he acted there for three years in the 1960s and has been a member of the board since 1980. He also presented his mentor, and The Streets of San Francisco TV co-star, Karl Malden with the same awar

WENN Veteran actor Michael Douglas is set to be honoured for his career achievements by bosses at his former theatre company in Connecticut.The Wall Street star will be handed the prestigious Monte Cristo Award by the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in rec

Zhang Yimou's great gift for stories of resilient women serves him well in "The Flowers of War," a uniquely harrowing account of the rape of Nanjing. Simultaneously florid and gritty, this fictitious drama about convent students and prostitutes hiding to

Or go back to the 1960s version of "Dragnet" and Morgan's tour of duty as police Officer Bill Gannon, playing droll foil to laconic Jack Webb's Sgt. Joe Friday. Or consider Morgan's stalwart judge at the center of an intellectual clash in "Inherit the Wi

Friday December 9, 2011 a small role, or a small scene, and bring it deftly alive. He added richness to any comedy or drama smart enough to call on him. LOS ANGELES -- Harry Morgan wasn’t a star and didn’t need to be. In "M-A-S-H," "Dragnet" and so man

Harry Morgan wasn’t a star and didn’t need to be. In “M-A-S-H,” ”Dragnet” and so many other TV shows and movies, the veteran character actor proved as indispensable as any marquee name. Imagine “M-A-S-H” without the no-nonsense but fair Army Col. Sherman

FILE - In this March 13, 1988 photo, Harry Morgan and his wife Barbara are seen arriving for the People's Choice Awards in Los Angeles. The Emmy-winning character actor whose portrayal of the fatherly Col. Potter on television's "M*A*S*H" highlighted a s

Harry Morgan, who played Col. Sherman Potter on TV's M*A*S*H and Jack Webb's detective partner in Dragnet , died Wednesday at age 96. The actor died in his home in Los Angeles after suffering from pneumonia, his daughter-in-law Beth Morgan tells the Ass

By GREG RISLING Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) - Emmy-winning character actor Harry Morgan, whose portrayal of the fatherly Col. Potter on television's "M-A-S-H" highlighted a show business career that included nine other TV series, 50 films and the

The "Flea Off Market" will open on Saturday with about 70 vendors in the lot next to the Salvo...- 4:56 pm The Spirit of Jefferson is offering a public cruise through the McAlpine Locks on Sunday, the first...- 4:50 pm A fund-raiser to help end

In this 1976 handout photo, Harry Morgan poses on the set of his television show "MASH," The Emmy-winning character actor whose portrayal of the fatherly Col. Potter on television's "M*A*S*H" highlighted a show business career that included nine other TV

Harry Morgan, the prolific character actor best known for playing the acerbic but kindly Colonel Potter in the long-running television series “M*A*S*H,” died Wednesday morning at his home in Los Angeles. He was 96. His son Charles confirmed his death, sa

If you had asked me when I was just growing up on the movies in the mid to late seventies who was going to be the big director of the decade, I might have answered Franklin J. Schaffner. That wouldn’t have been a crazy answer either. Sure, there was Fr