It does not seem quite possible that Jack Nicholson could be turning 75 today. He seems ageless, particularly when you revisit his best films. And that's just what we should all do to mark the occasion.

Simon Pegg used to think he saw UFOs as a boy in Great Britain. "But it always turned out to be an airplane," he says. "I was seeing things in the sk...

In the midst of the Oscar season tumult, it is reassuring to think of our most poetic and prolific American playwright Tennessee Williams as the autho...

Get Sissy Spacek and Robert Duvall together in a New York hotel room, and it's less an interview than a directed conversation, with the reporter as a privileged guest.

LITCHFIELD, Conn. — Actor Rip Torn pleaded not guilty Tuesday to burglary and firearms charges stemming from his January arrest inside a Connect...

Apparently, no one ever told Mitchell Lichtenstein, "Hey, buddy, watch your tone." So his films - 2007's notorious Teeth and now Happy Tears - are ex...

The oxymoron of "Happy Tears," a title from a signature Roy Lichtenstein painting, can refer to the comfort of living with the dysfunction one has kno...

Legacy -- it hovers over everyone's head in this film. And it's all about daddy issues.

LITCHFIELD, Conn. — Rip Torn was so intoxicated when he broke into a Connecticut bank carrying a loaded gun that he thought he was home, taking ...

SALISBURY, Conn. — Actor Elmore "Rip" Torn has been charged with breaking into a Connecticut bank and carrying a loaded handgun while intoxicate...

Perhaps we can celebrate in the same spirit that inhabited that first Oscars at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel in May 1929, just 5 months before the whole world slid into the economic abyss.

Happy Tears -- like the engaging director himself -- vulnerably exposes the inchoate emotions that children experience when facing not only aging parents, but memories of abuse.

LITCHFIELD, Conn. — Actor Rip Torn has pleaded not guilty to drunken driving charges in Connecticut, nearly two years after being fined and losi...

CINCINNATI — City Councilman Chris Monzel has publicly apologized to Emmy-winning actor Rip Torn for using his mug shot in a campaign ad on crim...