Little did he know that he could have been speaking in part about the 2012 Republican presidential nomination. After all, in campaigns communication failures often spell doom. And here we are, months into what Republicans see as the defining election...

“We see that as our home base, and it’s all part of an effort to solidify theater in the 18th and Vine area,” Gray said. McClain, speaking from Los Angeles, said she first met Gray in 1989, when she was in Kansas City filming “Mr. and Mrs. Bridge” with...

Love Stories gallery. I can't help but notice that two Hollywood power players (and BV Hall of Famers) are not included. Maybe serious BVers are not included in this gallery? Specifically, are Tom Hanks and his wife members of the BV club? I'd like to...

Can you tell? A Snader Telescriptions film of "Mood Indigo" performed by the Ellington orchestra in 1951. The clarinet solo is by Jimmy Hamilton. The arrangement, by Billy Strayhorn, is significantly different from the one described above: Paul Newman...

How challenging is the role for this particular actor? Is the character simply a darker or lighter shade of the actor's personality or does the character require the actor to more or less abandon his sense of self and slip into the skin of one with...

Sixty-year-old talent-maven Billy Sammeth managed both Joan Rivers and Cher for more than 20 years. He also has managed Olivia Newton-John and, during the early part of his career was the PR guy for the Osmonds. He still manages K.C. and the Sunshine Band.

Few, however, have had to take lessons in skating badly. Native Minnesotan Seann William Scott -- who plays the amiable doofus title character in the hockey comedy Goon (in theatres Friday) -- says he grew up in "the Canada of the United States." "But...

"That was a first," Jean said. Assange joins a mind-boggling roster of guest stars who've been on over the decades, one that reads like an encyclopedia of popular culture. Bob Hope, Paul Newman, Elizabeth Taylor, Paul McCartney, Mick Jagger, Steven Jay...

He then moves up a league and joins the Halifax Highlanders, where he’s told to protect LaFlamme from the other team’s goons, including legendary pugilist Ross Rhea (Liev Schreiber). In many ways, it wants to be this generation’s Slapshot, the 1977...

The initial meeting of Carmichael, Iberti and DiCaprio was penciled in for five minutes. Nine hours later, they're still hanging out, smoking cigars, watching the actor's giant box turtle waddle around. The La Colombers were talking coffee, but...

Newman sizes it up in "The Hustler," showing Sunday in West Orange There’s no shortage of great villains in the movies. But whatever happened to the anti-heroes – the guys you weren’t supposed to root for, and yet couldn’t quite help caring about? Few...

"Instead of saying, 'Can I get your autograph, and let's talk about how much carbon emissions we have,' I said, 'You're the new Paul Newman,'" he recalls. "And I said: 'You're him. You have to do this!'" So Carmichael launched in on his pitch: a...

"As far as feature films go, we can't play in that park right now," she said. For much of the 1990s and the early 2000s, Maine drew major film producers and big stars. Mel Gibson made "The Man Without a Face." Cameron Diaz and Harvey Keitel starred in...

Lemonade joins a line up of six other Newman’s Own Lemonade products, including: original Virgin Lemonade; Organic Virgin Lemonade; Pink Virgin Lemonade; Virgin Limeade; Virgin Lemon-Aided Iced Tea and Virgin Pomegranate Lemonade. About Newman’s Own®, Inc.

But someone - or rather, something - did: time. In 1945, the story of an abrasive and plotting mother trying to arrange a marriage for her agoraphobic daughter, much to the irritation of her film-obsessed blue-collar son, was provocative. By 1987, the...

Water for Elephants (2011) 61% It's a tale tastefully told, beautifully filmed, and Witherspoon as the wife of a brutal circus animal trainer (Christoph Waltz) is charming as always. But the film suffers from a pronounced lack of chemistry between its...

This reflected a picture of Israel that was probably prevalent in America, one that could be called the "Exodus'' view, after the novel by Leon Uris and film starring Paul Newman and Eva Marie-Saint in which the post-Holocaust Jews of the nascent state...

It also would throw into question a separate commission ruling forcing utilities to conserve energy. The 6-3 party-line vote by the Republican-dominated Government Committee came despite a warning from Paul Newman, one of the commissioners, that the...

Growing up Considering it's an image that's working like magic for his fellow Khans, it's no surprise that Saif's keen on treading the same path. However, for the actor who has grown up on Clint Eastwood and Paul Newman action thrillers, Bollywood...