Hello, Dolly! (Blu-ray Review)

Bucks County Playhouse (BCP) has announced the complete casting for their upcoming family production of Really Rosie as part of the 2013 Playhouse Productions Summer Season. Performances begin July 5th and run through July 21st at the Bucks County ...

Though Star Trek made them household names, the cast of the seminal 1966-69 NBC series had been acting on stage, film and TV for several years. One regular sang with Duke Ellington and another was a member the cast of the Canadian version of Howdy ...

Emmy winner starred in 'The Young and the Restless' Jeanne Cooper, 84, the enduring soap opera star who played grande dame Katherine Chancellor for nearly four decades on CBS' "The Young and the Restless," died Wednesday in her sleep, according to ...

Bryan Forbes, the acclaimed British writer-director who helmed the sinister suburban horror classic The Stepford Wives, died Wednesday after a long illness at his home in Surrey, England. He was 86. Forbes also co-wrote the screenplay for Chaplin, ...

NONFICTION: CITY LIFE The Village: 400 Years of Beats and Bohemians, Radicals and Rogues, A History of Greenwich Village by John Strausbaugh (Ecco) Where's the map? While there's much to praise and enjoy in John Strausbaugh's social and cultural ...

Big hats and big money. Mint juleps. "Old Kentucky Home." Lots of roses. The Kentucky Derby, won by the Shug McGaughey-trained Orb on Saturday, is one race a year. The Belmont Stakes can give it a run for its money if a 3-year-old is seeking the ...

Just-ended April was quite a month for Barbra Streisand and her fans. She was feted last week at Lincoln Center (I wasn't invited) and a couple of days later a specacular restoration of "Funny Girl'' opened the TCM Classic Film Festival (I showed ...

A child of a Holocaust survivor and a US Army officer, Aviva Kempner was born in Berlin, Germany after World War II. She was inspired by her heritage to produce and co-write Partisans of Vilna, a documentary on Jewish resistance against the Nazis.

"The Taking of Pelham One Two Three" came out in 1974, when New York was soon to risk bankruptcy and the homicide count was over four times that of 2012. Yet, for all the differences between then and now, the city in the film is delightfully ...