By Douglas Holtz-Eakin
The young drop coverage to avoid higher premiums
"Death Wish" director Michael Winner, a British filmmaker, restaurant critic and bon vivant, died Monday. He was 77.
Some of Oliver Stone's best-known and most-celebrated films _ including "Platoon," "Wall Street," and "Born on the Fourth of July" _ focus on complicated men. But his latest, the violent drug thriller "Savages," has a couple of formidable females at its center: Salma Hayek as the stylish, ruthless leader of a Mexican drug cartel and Blake Lively as an Orange County princess who must find a resourcefulness she never knew she had.
Faye Dunaway is moving on from a fight with a landlord over a New York City apartment _ by moving out.
Faye Dunaway denies she's been evicted from her New York City apartment.
A New York City landlord is suing Faye Dunaway, claiming the actress' rent-stabilized apartment is not her primary residence.
Reading "Mr. Funny Pants" brings to mind the dramatic final scene of the 1974 film classic "Chinatown." In a highly charged confrontation with J.J. Gittes (played by Jack Nicholson), Evelyn Mulwray (Faye Dunaway) keeps repeating, "She's my daughter. She's my sister."With each chapter of "Mr. Funny Pants," and sometimes even from one page to the next, I reflexively found myself thinking, "I love this. I hate this."
Speaking in his office above the Broadway theaters where he performed as a child, director Sidney Lumet was typically unpretentious in discussing his films, a body of work numbering more American classics than most have a right to contemplate.
Speaking in his office above the Broadway theaters where he performed as a child, director Sidney Lumet was typically unpretentious in discussing his films, a body of work numbering more American classics than most have a right to contemplate.
"Morning Glory" reveals the further encroachment of entertainment into news, with Harrison Ford playing an old-school anchor who's forced to co-host a network morning program. Merely the notion of fashion and cooking segments causes him to bristle.
"Bonnie and Clyde" wasn't a movie that director Arthur Penn wanted to make, but when he finally agreed to it, he made sure that the violence provoked by the lawbreaking couple from the 1930s _ and that led to the protagonists' bullet-riddled demise _ wasn't disguised.
Director Arthur Penn, a myth maker and myth breaker who in such classics as "Bonnie and Clyde" and "Little Big Man" refashioned movie and American history and sealed a generation's affinity for outsiders, died Tuesday night, a day after his 88th birthday.
"Bonnie and Clyde" wasn't a movie that director Arthur Penn wanted to make, but when he finally agreed to it, he made sure that the violence provoked by the lawbreaking couple from the 1930s _ and that led to the protagonists' bullet-riddled demise _ wasn't disguised.
Dunaway says she got the apartment from her mentor, playwright William Alfred, who died in 1999.
She says she's been working on donating his possessions to Brooklyn College, where he did his undergraduate work.
