Merv Griffin was gay.
Why should that be so uncomfortable to read? Why is it so difficult to write? Why are we still so jittery even about raising the issue in purportedly liberal-minded Hollywood in 2007? We can refer to it casually in conversation, but the mainstream media somehow remains trapped in the Dark Ages [...]

6/28/1902 - 12/30/1979
Richard Rodgers, the world renowned composer and lyricist, died at his East Side home in Manhattan at 10:28 P.M. last night after a long illness. He was 77 years old. A spokesman for the family said funeral services would be private.
“The Garrick Gaieties,” “A Connecticut Yankee,” “Babes in Arms,” “The Boys From Syracuse,” [...]

“What if I could do my life over again?” This is the tantalizing question at the heart of ILLUSION, a new film starring the legendary actor Kirk Douglas. The award-winning movie tells the story of a once powerful but now ailing film director, who is visited by the ghost of a dear, departed friend. He [...]

As the son of a film star remembered for one of the most famous and terrifying scenes in history, Elvis Perkins might have had reason to expect that his debut album would be a source of at least some curiosity. But the critical raves generated by Perkins’ recent release, Ash Wednesday, came as a pleasant [...]

The final chapter was written last week in a story as unlikely and ironic as it was utterly random. A man named Juan Catalan who had been unjustly imprisoned for nearly five months after being charged with a murder he didn’t commit — and exonerated by unused daily footage shot for the HBO comedy series [...]