Michael Rose

President Obama, who made rescuing the auto companies one of his first goals, officially opened his reelection campaign with a rally in Columbus, Ohio

One week after promulgating rules to open up the decision-making process for documentaries to be considered for an Academy Award, the Los Angeles-based Phase One committee and the Foreign Language Award...

Take heart all ye hopeful, dreaming toilers in the fields of feature film production. Hearing a no from a studio doesn't mean you're dead in the water. Even George Clooney is told no. But when...

General Motors has a long history of attacking its critics, including Ralph Nader and Michael Moore. It's been turned on its head. After suffering a public relations pummeling in filmmaker Chris Paine's documentary Who Killed...

This month marks the 25th anniversary of the summit in Reykjavik, Iceland, where the strident anti-communist President of the United States, Ronald Reagan, met with his Soviet counterpart, the Secretary...

The CIA's Predator drone missile strike that killed the American-born al Qaeda operative Anwar al-Awlaki in Yemen last month set off a heated discussion in policy circles about whether it...

Growing up in suburban Chicago, Illinois, in the late '50s I wasn't tuned in to European Formula One (F1) racing that pitted agile and fast Ferraris against Maseratis and other automotive exotica. For my gang of friends, watching A. J. Foyt driving his...

Nim Chimpsky, as seen in Project Nim. Photo credit: Harry Benson

In October of 2003 Siegfried Fischbacher and Roy Horn were performing their Siegfried and Roy act at the Mirage hotel in Las Vegas. The show, which included Montecore, a trained tiger, was...

What do Elmo, the New York Times, McDonald's coffee, transsexual tennis star Renee Richards, the interracial couple whose case overturned anti-miscegenation laws, a chimp using sign language, electric cars, the real horse...

Every day the sound made by the detonation of four million pounds of explosives echoes through the West Virginia mountains as a small army of companies wages a war on the ridges laying bare the...

Nuclear power was sold in the United States as being "Too cheap to meter." This miracle power source that harnessed the might of the atom to light American homes and power their TVs was...

Phil Ochs at Carnegie Hall Courtesy Ochs Family

John F. Kennedy brought Camelot to the country, the civil rights movement broke historic barriers between the races while singing "We Shall Overcome" and folk singers got involved as the bards of hope and change....

Joel Ewanick, Marketing VP for GM Intros Chevrolet Volt, courtesy GM

Thanksgiving in Los Angeles can be more than just watching the Macy's parade, football games and devouring heaping platters of turkey and all the trimmings. Now that the LA Auto Show is...

Photo by Representational Pictures, Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics

A new documentary that takes a deep dive into the events and people that caused the global financial collapse opens in Los Angeles this weekend. While it brought in about $42,000 in two theaters...

Silda Wall Spitzer and Eliot Spitzer
Photo courtesy of Magnolia Pictures

Eliot Spitzer -- a member of the pantheon of fallen political gods, Clinton, Gingrich, Sanford, Ensign, Hyde, Thurmond, Mills, Eisenhower, Roosevelt and even Jefferson who couldn't keep it zipped --...

How did Mazda, a Japanese car company best known for using a funny named engine, the Wankel, reinvent the classic British sports car? They listened to a group of Southern California dreamers who lamented the loss of the "everyman" sports cars...

Michael Winship, Pres. Writers Guild East & FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski courtesy Sarah Long

The standard set top box is an endangered species as entertainment and information converge and is increasingly delivered over the internet to your TV, laptop and handheld device....

Toyota's response to an ABC News story that aired on February 22, 2010 about the car company's sudden acceleration problems reminds me of GM's vehement rebuttal to an NBC Dateline broadcast that showed one of its pickup trucks catching on fire.

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Teenagers in the 1950s and '60s turned Elvis Presley into an icon. His shaking hips and curled lips sent rock 'n' roll shockwaves reverberating around the world and challenged prevailing notions about sex, race and class. As we celebrate what would have been...