Paul Newman

In a recent virtual conversation with film historian Annette Insdorf, Hugh Jackman discussed everything from his childhood experiences with theater and film to his upcoming starring role in the Broadway musical, The Music Man. Actor and singer Hugh Jackman performs on NBC's "Today" show at Rockefeller Plaza on Tuesday, Dec.…

Who Framed Roger Rabbit, directed by Robert Zemeckis, was released in 1988.Image: Elena Scotti (Disney, Shutterstock)Robert Zemeckis’ animated/live-action hybrid noir murder mystery broke boundaries of filmmaking technology and technique, and 32 years later it’s every bit as fresh, warm, and funny as it ever was. Starring Bob Hoskins as gumshoe…

I never met the great basketball player, Bob Cousy, the man known as “the Houdini of the Hardwood,” yet he somehow influenced my life in ways I never knew, or to be more accurate, in ways I didn’t reflect upon except in superficial ways.  He was the guy who brought…

The legendary Oscar-winning Hollywood star Patricia Neal, whom I knew during some of the many vicissitudes in her astonishing life, once said of her tempestuous 30-year marriage to the writer Roald Dahl: 'Our life together was the stuff of which movies are made.' Her remark was prophetic. In 1981, while they…

Four Star Films, Box Office Hits, Indies and Imports, Movies A - ZFOUR STAR FILMSTop rated movies and made-for-TV films airing the week of the week of May 24 - 30, 2020Almost Famous (2000) SHOW Fri. 6:55 p.m. American Beauty (1999) CMAX Thur. 2:55 a.m.Apocalypse Now (1979) HBO Thur. 3:30…

A saxophonist whose sounds helped birth international dance music. An actress who learned alongside one set of Hollywood legends then told the life stories of others. A musician who went from pop-rock bassist to show-tune song stylist. In the second installment in a series, The Associated Press takes a look…

Rosemary Smith marvelled at the liveried trucks and cars gleaming in the sunshine at the Circuit Paul Ricard just outside the French city of Marseille, bearing the giant initials RS, identical to those on her racing suit. Aged 79, she was about to take a Formula 1 car for a…

Even in quarantine, Cher had a great birthday!The music icon turned 74 on Wednesday and was treated to a surprise party. Cher took to Twitter to share that she and her crew celebrated outside with masks and gloves and made sure to social distance. "Hardest part, social distancing," she wrote,…

A master of effortless style Paul Newman was a renegade. A man of many hats, he was an accomplished actor, a philanthropist, a race car driver, and an entrepreneur. His effortless style was a sight to behold. And his watches have moved markets. Let’s take a closer look at this…

Susan Aimee Weinik /The LIFE Images Collection/Getty For the late, great novelist, American politics was one end-of-times after another.For the late, great novelist Robert Stone, modern American life could only be understood as a state of endless war. Though his combat experience was brief—he was an 18-year-old radioman on a…