In the years since my divorce, I have learned a thing or two about surviving the breakup of a long-term marriage. Not from self-help books, but from my friends.
Eric Schmeltzer | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics
it's time for you to lay down the gauntlet, and demand the reforms -- including a robust public option -- that will break the collusion among the insurance providers to extort people for all they're worth.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics
The loss of intellectual curiosity, and the death of reading, among our kids is a serious crisis as our children gravitate away from the written word and toward the visual image.
Ellen Sterling | Posted 09.14.2009 | Entertainment
Men, I've noticed (duh!) tend to quote lines from what one might think of as "guy" films. Women will often quote the likes of Bette Davis in All About Eve or Diane Keaton in Annie Hall.
AP | JIM HEINTZ | Posted 08.28.2009 | World
MOSCOW — Moscow police say a gunman has wounded Vyacheslav Ivankov, whom U.S. prosecutors have called a godfather of Russian organized crime. A...
Michael Maslansky | Posted 08.16.2009 | Politics
In today's age of the media microscope, every judge, politician or CEO has at least one "whoops" that they wish they hadn't said or done. The challenge is in how well you handle your critics.
The Huffington Post | Cara Parks | Posted 07.24.2009 | New York
Directors have struggled to capture the essence of New York City since the first talkie, The Jazz Singer, was set here in 1927. At turns romantic and ...
Karin Badt | Posted 07.18.2009 | Entertainment
In talking to Coppola, one has the impression of talking to a maverick godfather who is creatively pulling his own strings towards power
Mike Ragogna | Posted 07.04.2009 | Entertainment
This year's BookExpo in New York City had its usual small arena of publishers at gussied-up kiosks hawking the latest and greatest by writers known and unknown.
John Farr | Posted 05.14.2009 | Entertainment
Brando's filmography provides sufficient proof that the actor's own demons helped stall a career that in its hey-day (the mid-late fifties) seemed limitless in potential.
John Farr | Posted 04.29.2009 | Entertainment
Surveying the historical span of filmmaking, the use of original music appears more prevalent from the dawn of sound through the 1970s -- or perhaps it's just that the scores themselves were more memorable over this period.
John Farr | Posted 04.07.2009 | Entertainment
Ultimately, it's tough to call just who is the finer actor, or bigger star. Personally, I give the edge to De Niro.
Chris Campbell | Posted 02.27.2009 | Entertainment
Most industries are adapting and evolving during these uncertain times, but the arts have been in flux for years and years, long preceding Bush and Wall Street's dismantling.
Marshall Fine | Posted 01.31.2009 | Entertainment
Yes, I know - Barack Obama's election is a fresh start for the country, a time to put old bitterness and recriminations behind us and focus on the fut...
Daily Mail | Posted 01.07.2009 | Entertainment
How's this for an offer you can't refuse: The Godfather Family Album - previously unseen candid pictures revealing how the finest gangster movies of t...
Matthew Filipowicz | Posted 11.20.2008 | Media
Glenn Beck has served the Republicans well, and so now, he gets his own show on the network that respects "fair and balanced" reporting the same way the actual Mafia respects the "law".
AP | Posted 06.27.2008 | Entertainment
LOS ANGELES — The son of "The Godfather" creator Mario Puzo sued Paramount Pictures on Wednesday, claiming the studio failed to pay royalties fr...
AP | DAVID GERMAIN | Posted 06.26.2008 | Entertainment
LOS ANGELES — Snow White, Dorothy Gale, the HAL 9000 computer, Charles Chaplin's Little Tramp and Marlon Brando's Godfather share top billing am...
New York Post | James Covert | Posted 04.22.2008 | Business
Billionaire buyout king Leon Black may soon make the boss of Linens 'n Things an offer he can't refuse. The embattled retailer's CEO, Robert DiNicola...
Telegraph | John Hiscock | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment
The patriarchal writer-producer-director is back with renewed enthusiasm, intent on beginning a new career making low-budget, personal films, picking ...
Anne Hill | Posted 11.29.2009 | Living