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Movie critics are not, by and large, a nurturing lot. We make snarky comments before screenings, gossip about celebrities, and pool our collective genius for annual Best of the Year awards. It's the rare critic who takes a younger colleague under his or her wing.
Surprisingly few movies were made from the books of Maeve Binchy, whose 18 novels sold more than 40 million copies worldwide. Binchy, who died at age 72 on July 30, was the poster child for middle-aged would-be authors: Her first novel, Light a Penny Candle, wasn't published until she was 42 years…
In the course of The Dark Knight Rises, Batman is nearly crippled with arthritis, he's imprisoned, his back is broken, he is betrayed in the most awful of ways, and his nemesis is a monstrous al-Qaeda-class mass murderer.
Bill Cosby, who turns 75 today, was already thinking about the trials of getting older when I first spoke with him nearly 10 years ago.
I last spoke with Ernest Borgnine about two years ago, just before his megahit action flick RED was released.
Jim "Gomer Pyle" Nabors, who owed his entire career to Andy Griffith, once told me about the first time the two ever met, after Andy had seen his nightclub act in the early 1960s.
He won a Tony Award and was one of Britain's most beloved TV stars, but Victor Spinetti, who died June 18 at age 82, will always be known as the actor who costarred in three movies with The Beatles.
Father's Day cards always show dads fishing, or boating, or hunting ducks. But really, wouldn't your dad rather sit down with you for a great movie? Here are my choices:
My dad is the wisest man I've ever known, but he's never been much for offering sage advice.
Can it really be 40 years ago this weekend that the bungled "third-rate burglary" at the Watergate Hotel marked the beginning of the end for a President of the United States?