John Galsworthy

PASSINGS: Margaret Tyzack

2011-06-29 00:00:00

Margaret Tyzack British actress on stage, screen and television Margaret Tyzack, 79, a British actress perhaps best known to American audiences for her roles in the acclaimed BBC television series "The Forsyte Saga" and "I, Claudius," died Saturday in...

Errol Flynn Dies!

2009-10-15 16:32:41

Celebrating 12 in 2012

2011-12-30 09:56:00

In an anecdote that sticks to the memory like an overdone cookie on an undergreased cookie sheet — those 2011 holiday baking mishaps still rankle — an American visiting the Sorbonne is accosted by a French student. "You Americans!" the...

Some early gems from a master

2007-02-02 00:00:00

Alfred Hitchcock came to America to make the 1940 Oscar-winning best picture, "Rebecca." Before arriving on our shores, he had long been one of England's premiere directors, turning the film industry on its ear with his first big hit, the 1927 thriller...

'The Good German'

2006-12-15 00:00:00

The first scene of Steven Soderbergh's "The Good German," which is set in Berlin at the end of World War II, instantly calls to mind Roberto Rossellini's "Germany Year Zero." The last scene is a dead ringer for "Casablanca." Book-ended between the neo-...

Darn that "Masterpiece Theatre." Between my first and second readings of Galsworthy's sly gander at an upper-class British family in the Edwardian age, I watched the 2002 television dramatization of it. I couldn't get the actors' faces out of my mind.

2011-12-30 10:35:21

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