Savoring a Legend Before It Curdled
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Martin Scorsese's biography of the famously eccentric empire builder Howard Hughes is visually sumptuous if disappointingly hollow.
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âAmazing Grace,â a prettified take on the life and times of the 18th-century reformer William Wilberforce, carries a strong whiff of piety.
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A major retrospective opens on the photographer often hailed as the greatest of the 20th century
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Pearl Abraham may have broken away from Hasidism, but she writes about it with both an intimate knowledge and a striking tenderness.
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How does one even begin to analyze the latest unforgettable installment of a rivalry that always seems to produce an indelible and searing memory?
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Exploring the family tree in search of roots (or royal family connections).
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Now and then a story comes along that is so outrageous a ' for good or for bad a ' that it captures the popular imagination and enters into the realm of contemporary folklore.
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Nicholas Ostler's history charts Latin's rise and fall. Harry Mount's short primer makes a passionate case for studying the language.
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It won&#39;t be long before the Red Sox&#39;s historic World Series win is immortalized in the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown.
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It's one thing to cover a country classic, and quite another to sing it with the legend who wrote it.
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His rags to riches story is the stuff of legend, while his personal life could well be the script of an ancient Greek tragedy.
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Vividly impressionistic and delightfully curious, âPrimo Leviâs Journeyâ retraces the writerâs arduous return from a liberated Auschwitz to his home in Italy.
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Classics, cult classics, vintage TV and one silent treasure
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Tycho:  The memories of those who came of age in the eighties have become a kind of ghastly rummage sale, a tilled up cemetery where icons lay tilted over bones draped in ancient finery.  Pork caught a preview of Transformers on Monday, and he claims that it is not, in fact, heresy - but I don't know how calibrated our respective tastes are.  I was going to make a statement about how any constantly shifting image could entertain him, enthrall him, command him, until I realized that this viewing was late at night, in the twilight period we call Pork After Hours, when his medication wanes and his blood is frenzied by some dark moon.  For him to have focused on anything at any time after nine o'clock is actually high praise.
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Here's the painful story of someone who did.
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If it wasnÂt true before, itÂs certainly true with the appearance of ÂThe Latin Legends of ComedyÂ: the word legend has been devalued to the point of worthlessness.
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An eyewitness account indicates that a death may have been especially tragic.