Richard Dreyfuss

Good Spielberg's Bad Moments

What should we make of radiant Lincoln and blubbering Private Ryan?

Helen Mirren in Red

She's just one of this film's bad-ass old people

Oliver Stone got the W but missed T and F

Famous director assigns motive to Bush's M.O., but at this point, who cares?

12/19: Morning Communique

W.O.W.

Spielberg's 'War' brings security to the blockbuster

Kentucky Fried Horse

Leave your family. Throw away your money. And don't worry. You'll never regret having done it.

Letters from the Big House

Brian Dennehy helps restore the name of Dalton Trumbo

Petting Teachers

'The Education of Max Bickford' Strokes Richard Dreyfuss--But Gets a Passing Grade

An Encyclopedia of Little Abominations

Emily Carter's flirtation with drugs led her from Park Avenue to a bad marriage with the festering streets of New York's Alphabet City. Now, in a collection of stories, Carter recalls the ABCs of addiction--and spells out the terms of a new life in Minnea

Summer Stock

In an annual late-August ritual, the studios clear the vaults of their least promising product

Stand Up, Fit In

The Rise and Fall of the Borscht Belt waxes nostalgic for the Jewish comedy of assimilation

Desperation Unknown

Unlike the flop-sweating neurotics of his comedies, Albert Brooks the director shows none of the comedian's high anxiety

Dark Horse

If he runs for president next year, there's little chance Sen. Paul Wellstone will win. But he just might nudge the Democrats slightly to the left.

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