Stuffed full of stories, secrets, and never-before-seen production photographs, As You Wish is the book that diehard Briders have been waiting for. Here are 6 fun facts from the book, all of which we've pre-screened for iocaine powder.(READ MORE)
Eliza Kazan, the great film and theater director, was both an independent thinker as well as a people-pleaser. A letter from John Steinbeck helps reveal just how adaptable Kazan really was. (READ MORE)
April 4 marks one year since the passing of Roger Ebert. With respect and somber remembrance, we reflect on Ebert's work with At The Movies, his passionate writing style, his infectious optimism, and all that he's contributed to the world of movies.(READ MORE)
Artemis Cooper’s new biography of the writer, adventurer, and bon vivant Patrick Leigh Fermor is the first to tell the full story of his truly remarkable life. For those unfamiliar with his work, here are our five reasons to read Patrick Leigh Fermor's work -- and his life story.(READ MORE)
As 'Kill Your Darlings' lands in theaters, we present a range of versions of the lives of Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, and their friends, lovers, and acolytes.(READ MORE)
My Lunches With Orson is the product of two years of weekly lunches that Welles had with director Henry Jaglom. It was Welles who asked Jaglom to record their lunchtime conversations, which he did from 1983-1985, what would turn out to be the last two years of Welles' life.(READ MORE)
On June 20, 1975, Steven Spielberg's "Jaws" was released in theaters. The movie, adapted from a 1973 Peter Benchley novel about a Great White shark ripping through the sleepy town of Amity, went gangbusters.(READ MORE)
On May 16, 1929, in the Blossom Room of the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, a tradition was born: the Academy Awards ceremony, honoring the previous years’ best films, directors, and actors. Those early years of experiment and excess generated some of the all-time great life stories; here are our picks for...(READ MORE)
In this installment of Behind the Books, Glenn Frankel - author of The Searchers - pauses from his projects to sit down with us and talk all things bookish: his sprawling, sunny workspace, the "sly" and "supple" writing of Bob Dylan's Chronicle: Volume One, the closed border between fact and fiction,...(READ MORE)
Roger Ebert, the much adored and admired film critic whose thoughtful opinions graced the Chicago Sun-Times's pages since 1967, has succumbed to cancer. He was 70 years old.(READ MORE)
