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An accomplished advertising executive and best-selling writer, James Patterson has proven again and again that he understands how to please his audience. Concentrating on thrillers and suspense stories, he has fostered a loyal following of avid readers,...

It was the mighty Kenneth Tynan who said that among the things he could live without in the theater are Everyman characters with pretentious names like “Mr. Adam” or “Mr. Zero.” I wonder how he might have felt about Sarah Ruhl’s interpretation of the Orpheus/Eurydice...

What could be more French than cognac?Its grapes come from a strictly marked-off region of western France, and French rules govern how it is distilled, aged and labeled.Yet the distillation process is partly Dutch-invented. Famous cognac houses were founded by Irishman Richard Hennessy and Englishman...

Ogres as romantic heroes and princess brides. Cinderella as a neurotic clean freak. Snow White as a bossy know-it-all. Puss in Boots hacking up hairballs. Pinocchio with a leaf still growing off his wooden lie-detector nose.These are not animation godfather Walt Disney's fairy tales.The "Shrek"...

Great Scott! Back to the Future, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Oklahoma! and 12 Angry Men were among the 25 selections entered into the Library of Congress' National Film Registry this year. Librarian of Congress James H. Billington announced the entries this morning. “Even...