"'Hard' is what I do best," Charlton Heston once told a photographer. "I don't do 'nice."' Strange words, perhaps, coming from an actor who has specialized in playing symbols of rectitude...

Charlton Heston (born October 4, 1924) is an American film actor. In a long career he was mostly known for playing heroic roles such as Moses in The Ten Commandments, Colonel George Taylor in Planet of the Apes, and Judah Ben-Hur in Ben-Hur. Early in...

Blind and visually impaired people can enjoy holiday entertainment on TV thanks to descriptive narrations of the events arranged by a program called "Eyes of Christmas."Reaching more than 80 million homes on a variety of cable networks and independent television stations, the program features dozens...

When I called to make a reservation, I was brought up short for a second when a male voice answered “A Voce. Dante speaking.” Dante Camara (not Alighieri) is the maître d’ at A Voce (which means “word of mouth”), a new Italian restaurant...

When I called to make a reservation, I was brought up short for a second when a male voice answered “A Voce. Dante speaking.” Dante Camara (not Alighieri) is the maître d’ at A Voce (which means “word of mouth”), a new Italian restaurant near...

Today is Thursday, Aug. 9, the 221st day of 2007. There are 144 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Aug. 9, 1945, three days after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, the United States exploded a nuclear device over Nagasaki, killing an estimated...