Fiction writer Dennis Lehane has been widely praised for his gritty crime novels featuring the Boston police detective partners Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro. However, he "hit the big time in 2001 with Mystic River, which quickly became a bestseller,...

The question, friends, is not whether Clint Eastwood is a great director. That debate should have been settled long ago, by anyone who paid attention to Unforgiven, A Perfect World, and The Bridges of Madison County. The question that persists is: How can a...

Mystic river sweep The Mystic River Watershed Association is hosting a river cleanup Sept. 20, with plans to clean a half-mile of the pol-luted shoreline along the lower Mystic River, behind the As-sembly Square Mall. The COASTSWEEP is co-sponsored by several organizations, including...

Bookstores are lined with the works of novelists who've never seen their creations make it to the silver screen — or who've been burned when they do. So count Dennis Lehane among the doubly fortunate few.First Clint Eastwood made a film classic out of the...

Sean Penn applauded President Hugo Chavez as the Venezuelan leader lambasted the Bush administration and demanded an end to war in Iraq.Chavez met privately with the 46-year-old actor for two hours Thursday, praising him as being "brave" for urging Americans to impeach President Bush."In the...