Planning some extended family dinners over the holidays? Worried that folks might not get along, that festering tensions might surface, that people might get tipsy and s...
Can there be too much of a good thing? Where did that expression come from, anyway? If it’s good, isn’t more always better?
Discuss.
Or, actually, don’t discuss. Becaus...
“The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism” (Simon & Schuster), by Doris Kearns Goodwin
In her new account of the lives...
It’s a Hollywood legend that Walt Disney felt some sort of malevolent glee in killing Bambi’s mom, and what that animated death would do to the children who saw it. But ...
LOS ANGELES — Undaunted hobbits trumped princess power at the multiplex.
Per studio estimates Sunday, Warner Bros. “Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug” was No. 1 at the we...
NEW YORK — Here’s something to order for the holidays: Oprah Winfrey’s new book club pick.
Winfrey has chosen Sue Monk Kidd’s “The Invention of Wings,” coming out Jan. 7...
Underscoring deeply conflicted characters who are on a mission to reconceive their unsatisfying circumstances has become director David O. Russell's sweet spot. From his...
LOS ANGELES — Without as much as a hint, Beyoncé stealthily released her new album.
As the West Coast was tucking into bed Thursday night, the singer rolled out one of t...
Sleeping dragons eventually awaken. If they didn’t, there wouldn’t be a story. So it’s hardly news that in the second installment of Peter Jackson’s “Hobbit” trilogy, th...
NEW YORK — In its second weekend at the box office, the Disney animated tale “Frozen” finally cooled off “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire,” while the week’s lone new wid...
