It is the only piece of celebrity memorabilia I display. It is an old-school, type-written letter, held up on my refrigerator by magnets of Elizabeth Taylor from Cat on a Hot Tin Roof on one side and Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron from An American in Paris on the other....

Twitter is busy reminding us what's wrong with sports and more specifically, sports fans.

Thanks to Owen Shure, seven years old from Los Angeles, we have an example of what's right.

San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Kyle Williams, 23 years old from San Jose, is now well known to...

Iconic is a wildly overused word, but the cover photo of Born to Run -- Bruce Springsteen grinning and leaning on Clarence Clemons' broad shoulder -- is a powerful and memorable picture, one that meets the standard for iconic rock n' roll images....

Every morning my father would wake up, walk over to his car and urinate all over his tires.

He was peeing for his country.

I suppose I should explain it was the winter of 1945 along the Siegfried Line and my dad was helping to hold positions won by...

The Hangover Part II is getting a bad rap. Don't get me wrong, it's not, you know, "good." But it has no business being at 33 percent on Rotten Tomatoes. The vehemence of the negativity is steeped in the success and originality of the first film.

And no...

I'd met him only once, in passing. He didn't know my name or anything about me. He was a 59-year-old alcoholic who'd been battling those demons for years, probably decades.

But Mitchell Page was a huge part of my life, casting a shadow nearly as large as any friend or...

First of all, my headline is a lie. Sorry. There are 11 movies on my top-10 list because I've spent my whole life putting off tough decisions and I think this list ought to reflect my character flaw.

The other part of the headline is the truth. You will find...

November 16 -- that's Christmas, Hanukkah (Hannakuh? Channukah? I'm a horrible Jew) and a birthday all rolled up in one for Springsteen fans. The box set of Darkness on the Edge of Town, his fourth album, hits stores. Not only does it include the remastered record, but 21 unreleased songs...

Let me make this clear right at the start: I don't like soccer... and I don't like Twilight either. I don't like soccer because I wasn't born in Germany, Brazil, England or Ghana. I was born in Washington, DC -- where we play baseball, basketball and football (poorly, I might...

There's really no comparing the latest rendition of A Nightmare on Elm Street to Wes Craven's now-iconic 1984 slasher film. The original is far better and mind you, I say this having never actually -- you know -- seen the original. Nonetheless, I'm certain of this for very serious reasons,...

Martin Scorsese one night. Roman Polanski the next. It isn't often you get to see fresh work by a couple of Oscar winning directors on back to back evenings. Scorsese's Shutter Island, then Polanski's The Ghost Writer. It's one of the pleasures of being a film critic.

(One of...

First and foremost, I wanted to apologize to my mother for using the word "suck" in the headline. Then I remembered she'll never read this because she doesn't own a computer, or as she calls them, without an ounce of sarcasm - and I swear this is true - an...

The good people of Indianapolis appear disconsolate - crestfallen even - over Jim Caldwell and Bill Polian's decision to remove all the team's players who are good at football and replace them with players who are good at knitting. Of course, most of us don't live in Indianapolis.

Thank...

I've decided to take a stand in 2010. Not an important one, mind you, like on health care or climate change or banking reform or torture. No, I'll take my stand on numbers.

Enough with top 10 lists. What's so special about 10 anyway? It's just a number, no...

Over the five-day Thanksgiving weekend, Old Dogs made $24 million, not exactly a blockbuster, but with a budget of $35 million, once this "film" (I promised myself years ago I'd stop using air-quote marks in speech and when writing -- a promise I've sadly failed to keep) is finished stealing...

They say New Moon, the second movie in the Twilight series, is a single-day box office champion, knocking Batman off his perch. Most money ever made in a single day by any film. Ever. Which is weird, because New Moon isn't just one of the dullest movies ever made. It's...