Before finding celebrity and success directing movies, Barry Sonnenfeld toiled for eight years as a cinematographer, quietly building a reputation as one of Hollywood's quirkiest and most inventive behind-the-scenes talents. Sonnenfeld enjoyed an...

Barry Sonnenfeld and Will Smith are huddled watching the final 15 minutes of "Wild Wild West." Unnerved by early test screenings, Warner Brothers had turned skittish about its $100 million-plus Jules Verne voyage. But the movie works well now--Sonnenfeld has added a climactic...

One of the snappier conceits in Barry Sonnenfeld's 1997 sci-fi spoof Men in Black was a gizmo called the neuralyzer. This slimline device, wielded by alien-fighting agent Tommy Lee Jones, would emit a flash, and any hapless earthling who happened to have witnessed intergalactic...

Lee Pace has the magic touch.Relaxing on the set of his critically praised series, "Pushing Daisies," Pace taps the air teasingly with his forefinger. It's how Pace's character, Ned, makes others live or die with a single stroke on the darkly whimsical ABC drama.It's also...

Today is Palm Sunday, April 1, the 91st day of 2007. There are 274 days left in the year. This is April Fool's Day.Today's Highlight in History:On April 1, 1945, American forces invaded Okinawa, Japan, during World War II.On this date:In 1853, Cincinnati established a...