De Niro recounts CIA's birth in lengthy "Shepherd"
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LOS ANGELES  - Who knew Robert De Niro had such a keen fascination for foreign policy and espionage?
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VENICE, Italy - Robert De Niro dismissed accusations that his Mafia roles have smeared the image of Italian-Americans, arguing that he plays realistic characters including many who could not be construed as stereotypes.    De Niro's defense Friday came after the Order Sons of Italy in America, a fraternal organization of Americans of Italian heritage, wrote a letter to the Italian government, urging it to cancel its plan to award the actor honorary citizenship...
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The Sons of Italy in America objects to the "distorted" image its says De Niro has given to Italian Americans in various roles, and has written to Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi asking that Italy ...
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He is a watchdog of black American culture who might have directed any movie he wanted, but when it came to his first film, Nelson George tapped into subjects that hit close to home -- drugs, AIDS and his sister.
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A man on-the-run for 30 years is to tell of his role in the killing of undercover soldier Robert Nairac.
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Amos Kollek said his difficult relationship with his famous father Teddy Kollek, an important figure in Israeli history and long-time mayor of Jerusalem, was the inspiration for his film "Restless".
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CNN's fascinating  documentary "In the Footsteps of bin Laden" is a biography of  sorts, a bio of a man and of a growing terrorist landscape.
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A Washington player for a long time, Alan Greenspan reveals his candid thoughts about the occupants of the Oval Office.
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Long-secret documents released Tuesday provide new details about how the Central Intelligence Agency illegally spied on Americans decades ago.
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The story of the long tracking shot would be best told in one take.
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'The Namesake' director Mira Nair explains how the parallels between Calcutta and New York affected her new film.
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In a new memoir, former CIA officer Valerie Plame Wilson recounts her shock as she watched then-Secretary of State Colin L. Powell, appearing before the United Nations on the eve of war, deliver what she knew to be a flawed portrait of the intelligence on Iraq.
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In April, James L. Pavitt became the first director of the CIA's clandestine service ever to testify publicly before Congress. While he was not technically undercover as the deputy director of operations, just about everything he was in charge of for five years  was.
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Kevin Keating&#039;s film, the  latest in a seemingly never-ending series of politically themed  documentaries presumably designed to have an impact on the  upcoming elections, deals with former New York mayor and  possible 2008 presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani.
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The much-delayed memoir of former CIA director George Tenet is coming out April 30, his publisher said Tuesday.
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Dell L. Dailey's life has been one long string of secrets.
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WASHINGTON - President Bush's nominee to head the CIA promised Tuesday to shed his political past and provide precise, objective and independent intelligence to the president and Congress. But after a 4 1/2-hour confirmation hearing, some Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Committee were not convinced...