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"Roy Rogers"

The Question: While watching an old Roy Rogers TV series last weekend, my husband and I started a contest matching "heroes" names with the names of their…

La Dolce Vita <span class="date" >(1960)</span>

Director: Federico FelliniCast: Marcello Mastroianni, Anita Ekberg and Anouk Aimée Fellini's masterpiece has endured as one of the icons of the 1960s, both in the cinema and in how it…

White Teeth

Author:Zadie Smith Twenty-something Smith may be 2000's biggest literary sensation. Her epic tale covers 25 years in the lives of Archie Jones and Samad Iqbal, a pair of friends and World War…

Surprises

SurprisesJo was alone in the twilight, lying on the old sofa, looking at the fire, and thinking. It was her favorite way of spending the hour of dusk. No one disturbed her, and she used to…

Stephen Crane: I heard thee laugh,

I heard thee laugh, And in this merriment I defined the measure of my pain; I knew that I was alone, Alone with love, Poor shivering love, And he, little sprite, Came to watch with me, And at…

The Jewel Stairs' Grievance

The Jewel Stairs' GrievanceThe jewelled steps are already quite white with dew, lt Is so late that the dew soaks my gauze stockings, And I let down the crystal curtain And watch the moon…

Walt Whitman: The Torch

The TorchOn my Northwest coast in the midst of the night a fishermen's group stands watching, Out on the lake that expands before them, others are spearing salmon, The canoe, a dim…

Gen. Augusto Pinochet, 1998 News

Chilean dictator from 1973 to 1990, was arrested in a London hospital in October while recovering from surgery on a herniated disk. He was charged by a Spanish magistrate on grounds of…

Antonin Scalia, 2004 News

Supreme Court justice, refused in March to recuse himself from a case involving Vice President Dick Cheney, a close friend with whom he went duck hunting just weeks after the court agreed to…

Chinatown <span class="date" >(1974)</span>

Director: Roman PolanskiCast: Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway and John Huston An homage to the 1930s' grim gumshoe films, Chinatown elicited career-defining performances from Nicholson, Dunaway…