Academy award winning director, screenwriter, and producer Barry Levinson began his show business career in the late 1960s as a comedian and found success in every Hollywood path he took, but most notably as a director of movies, including Wag the Dog, D...

A Different Kind of Hurricane Hunter All my life I have yearned to experience the blinding fury of a hurricane and the ironic clarity of its eye. For years, first as a boy locked indoors by worried parents during several hurricane passages...

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It took 26 years, six directing nominations and two screenplay nominations, but Martin Scorsese finally has his Oscar.Righting one of Hollywood's biggest oversights, the Academy Awards bestowed Martin Scorsese with a best-directing Oscar on Sunday night for "The Departed."Scorsese was received with a rousing standing...

Robert Zemeckis used Beowulf (No. 1), once the scourge of high-school English classes nationwide, to lure unsuspecting children and families to the box office this weekend, promising a 3-D spectacle the likes the which they had never seen. Improbably, he ended the weekend at...

I wrote this essay on Savant Syndrome, using the movie Rainman as an example.

Reviews and analyzes the movie "Rain Man." Summarizes the plot and discusses critical reviews of the film concerning Dustin Hoffman's performance.

A plot summary and description of characters in "Rain Man," the 1988 film about an autistic savant and his self-absorbed brother.