In January 1974, a 19-year-old UCLA student named Steve Stoliar started The Committee for the Rerelease of Animal Crackers to pressure Universal Studios into releasing the Marx Brothers' 1930 black-and-white film, which had been in copyright limbo for...

In late November a newspaper reporter phoned Gene Wilder to tell him that a Wisconsin chapter of Gilda's Club -- the renowned cancer support center named for the original Saturday Night Live cast member Gilda Radner who lost her battle to ovarian cancer at 42 -- is changing its name...

Nothing completes the holiday experience more than an extra serving -- to go with the booze and candied yams -- of Frank Capra's yule-tide yarn, It's A Wonderful Life. It's a picture that can melt even the iciest of hearts, and...

Scott Camil's Marine Corps fitness report written before he left Vietnam states the following: "[Sergeant Camil] can be trusted to complete any task assigned to him and often takes the initiative to do the odd, unglamorous but necessary jobs...

Much has been made of Matisyahu since he took clippers to his dangling beard and side-curls, 86'd the black fedora and shockingly emerged from his Hasidic outer shell one year ago. Recent photos of the international hip-hop, reggae sensation now reveal...

O Magazine once called actor and author Annabelle Gurwitch "slyly subversive," and she never ceases to live up to that description. One of America's more clever and funny social critics, Gurwitch's witty insights on politics, art and pop culture have made her an in-demand...

As a production designer, Sir Ken Adam consistently pushed his imagination to the limits, creating movie sets, each different, as thrilling to look at as the action unfolding up on the screen. His work on seven James Bond films -- including the first of the series, Dr. No -- set...

It's fair to say that Adam Carolla lives up to every word that's been used to describe him. Your colorful adjectives may vary but the unabashedly brash ex-Man Show host is in fact a New York Times bestselling author- his In Fifty Years We'll All Be Chicks... And Other Complaints...

Hollywood has launched a thousand careers, and among them are the many extremely talented character actors and comedians we've watched for years and whose nuanced performances knock us on our asses every time we see them. Just the sight of them elicits responses like, "Hey, I love that guy! Wasn't...

For those video game enthusiasts old enough to remember Pong -- the primitive, two-dimensional simulated game of table tennis that came out in 1972 -- it's not hard to marvel at how mind-blowingly sophisticated games like Call of Duty, Halo or any number of them in the XBox or PlayStation...

Skyfall is the latest installment in the James Bond franchise to hit theatres in November. Daniel Craig is the sixth 007 to climb into an Aston Martin and run the usual gauntlet of poison-tipped-shoe-wearing psychopaths, cunning femme fatale and double-agents with exploding briefcases powerful enough to take out Portugal. 

Bond's fictional...

How does one begin to properly document a life, no matter how extraordinary, when it's far from over?

Such has been the dilemma for documentary filmmaker Cindy Kleine, who always wanted to make a film about her husband André Gregory's epic life, including his work as a revolutionary stage director,...

Levon Helm, who died on April 19, experienced an astonishing career resurgence all due to a tight-knit inner circle, including his daughter Amy, his manager Barbara O'Brien, and guitarist Larry Campbell, who all rallied around to help the legend when he was broke and in danger of losing everything.

His...

Meet Max Rice, the 20 year-old film student and stand up comic from Chicago who decided to stage his own bizarre style of political theater when he pranked conservative Fox News host Gretchen Carlson of Fox & Friends. When an acquaintance at Fox News reached out to friends via text...

When songwriter, crime novelist, notorious wit, and inimitably American Kinky Friedman added gubernatorial candidate to his already powerful wheelhouse, the 67-year-old progenitor of the infamous country and western ensemble The Texas Jewboys endeared himself to supporters with slogans like, "How Hard Could It Be?," "Why The Hell Not?," "My Governor...

Billy Corgan recently opened a 1930s Chinese-style tea house, Madame Zuzu's Tea House, raising eyebrows among the hoi polloi of navel-gazing hipsters who are probably wondering if the famed Smashing Pumpkins frontman has committed a serious rock 'n' roll faux pas. He hasn't.

In fact, there's nothing more "rock"...

This year marks the centennial of the late filmmaker Samuel Fuller, whose brutally honest and bold films won him the fierce admiration of filmmakers including Wim Wenders, Jim Jarmusch, Quentin Tarantino, and Martin Scorsese. Scorsese once wrote, "If you don't like the movies of Samuel Fuller then you don't like...