
Toback, Baldwin eye Cannes movie-making underbelly
A phrase you will hear often at Cannes is: "Let me run the numbers." The commercial underbelly of the Cannes Film Festival is a nonstop frenzy of ...

Elaine Stritch movingly says goodbye to New York
Broadway legend Elaine Stritch kicked off a final series of concerts to bid farewell to New York, but refused to be maudlin about it, instead ...

HMS Bounty crewman says he urged abandoning ship
The chief mate of a replica 18th-century sailing ship that sank off North Carolina during Hurricane Sandy told investigators Tuesday that the ship's ...

A memoir by Kerouac's agent, Sterling Lord
The legend of Sterling Lord dates back to 1952, when he was just getting started as a literary agent. Into his basement-level office on Park Avenue ...

Filmmaker Michael Winner dies at 77
"Death Wish" director Michael Winner, a British filmmaker, restaurant critic and bon vivant, died Monday. He was 77. Winner's wife, Geraldine, said ...

Scarlett Johansson tones down the sex as Maggie
In a decision that will make many a man sigh unhappily, Scarlett Johansson won't be bringing sexy back to Broadway. The actress with the pouty lips ...