In the beginning there was always a man who had worked it all out. After long contemplation, he would claim that he alone had achieved Enlightenment and would devote the
It wasn't just the nose. Or the hooded eyelids. Or the protruding gums in the small mouth that almost never smiled. It was the total demeanor. The flat
Now that nearly 13 percent of Americans are over 65, filmmakers no longer need to cater solely to an audience of 12-year-old boys. More often they have been choosing to
If you are old enough to remember Joseph McCarthy and the House Un-American Activities Committee's browbeating of prominent intellectuals in the 1950s, you may be excused for thinking
Do you remember the Cabbage Patch kids -- that ubiquitous fad of the 1980s? The "kids" were a series of dolls that came with names and birth certificates
In the new film "Still Alice" we watch the beautiful and vivacious Julianne Moore deteriorate, disintegrate and disappear right before our eyes.
A celebrated linguistics professor at Columbia
In the summer after she graduated from college, my daughter Dena volunteered for a short stint with the Israel Defense Forces. She was posted to a naval base outside Haifa,
PLAY TIME — "Whiplash" is a misleading name for this film. It conjures up deadly car chases and crashes and someone paralyzed for the rest of his life. But
PLAY TIME — When May Lee Davis was looking for a pizzazzy name toreflect her ascending career as a standupcomedian, she was suddenly inspiredby a large neon sign that identified the
