Howard Fast tirelessly worked his way from poverty to become one of the most widely read writers of the twentieth century. He was already an acclaimed writer by the mid-1940s, when he decided to formalize his support for the Communist party despite the a...

Born in New York City, the son of Barney and Ida Miller Fast, Howard Melville Fast attended George Washington High School and the National Academy of Design. On 6 June 1937, he married Bette Cohen. They had two children, Rachel and Jonathan. Fast served...

Spartacus represents the pinnacle of the epic film trend which included spectaculars such as Cleopatra, Ben Hur, and Fall of the Roman Empire. It was acclaimed as the first truly intelligent epic, but its director, the highly acclaimed Stanley Kubrick,...

Spartacus (ca. 120 BC[1] – ca. 70 BC), according to Roman historians, was a gladiator-slave who became the leader (or possibly one of several leaders) in the unsuccessful slave uprising against the Roman Republic known as the Third Servile War. Little...

IF THERE'S A SINGLE image that most of us have of Spartacus it's that of rows upon rows of slaves standing up at the end of the 1959 film, all of them shouting out, 'I'm Spartacus!' But the story of Spartacus the...

It was not at first apparent to Andrew that there was anything amiss with his haircut, that it was anything other than a nice haircut, possibly sharp. Indeed, during those first few heady moments that followed his departure from Cheri's Salon de Rigeour, sharp...

Twenty-four hours until we know who wins the Iowa caucuses! If Hillary wins, the big plus: the writer’s strike won’t matter anymore because we’ll all be treated to the greatest reality TV show ever, as the sleaze-packed, scandal-scented, dysfunctional marriage program you know and love...

Emilio Ruiz del Rio, the award-winning Spanish set decorator and visual and special effects wizard who worked on such films as "Dr. Zhivago," "Lawrence of Arabia" and "Pan's Labyrinth," has died, a hospital official said Sunday. He was 84.Ruiz del Rio died of respiratory failure...