To legions of movie fans, Vivien Leigh (1913-1967) will best be remembered as the defiant and beautiful Scarlett O'Hara, heroine of the 1939 movie classic Gone With the Wind. Vivien Leigh had only a brief career on the British stage and screen when she...

I'm glad I caught up with Austin Pendleton's unusual backstage story, Orson's Shadow, which has settled in for a long run, I hope, at the Barrow Street Theatre downtown. For one surprising thing, it's a treat to see Laurence Olivier onstage again.Olivier, greatest classical actor...

There really aren't many television events that you can build a party around. There's the Super Bowl, of course. And a friend of mine once hosted an especially dismal State of the Union gathering which, if nothing else, proved that actual fun should be a...

Prestige revivals mark this spring's theater season, with several potentially bankable classics opening on Broadway in the next month. Among the most anticipated are Tennessee Williams' Southern dramas The Glass Menagerie and A Streetcar Named Desire. Both productions, with star-studded and surprising casts, will attempt...

SPIDER-MAN 3 Running Time 140 minutesDirected by Sam RaimiWritten by Sam Raimi, Ivan Raimi and Alvin SargentStarring Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, James Franco, Thomas Haden Church, Topher Grace Clocking in at up to $350 million, depending on which moguls you ask and how secure their...