Thomas Hardy

Cannes 2012: Roman Polanski receives some therapy

2012-05-23 04:37:15

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Nolan's 'Dark Knight Rises' dons an Occupy costume [Trailer]

2011-12-20 16:36:55

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Paperback Writers: Between sea and sky

2011-01-02 00:00:00

Bruce Chatwin, the brilliant English writer and stylish nomad, died from AIDS in late 1989. His memorial service, held in a Greek Orthodox Cathedral in London on the day that Ayatollah Khomeini handed a death sentence to Chatwin's friend Salman Rushdie,...

Store beer in a wine-like cave? Southern California gives it a try

2010-03-04 00:00:00

To grab a beer, Israel Arrieta doesn't just stroll to the fridge; he has to walk out his back door to the side of the house, where he pries a chicken-wire screen off a basement window and scrambles, crab position, down a wooden ladder. Several minutes...

Rebooting culture: a heady start to Saturday

2010-04-25 16:34:22

English pubs in literature -- can America compete?

2010-07-08 16:34:57

George Steinbrenner dies at 80; owner of New York Yankees

2010-07-13 12:26:00

George Steinbrenner, who made his name synonymous with the revival of the New York Yankees as a dominant baseball team and leveraged multiple championships into business ventures that forever changed the economics of the sport, has died. He was 80....

Giving Angela Carter her due

2008-02-03 00:00:00

By Richard Rayner "A good writer can make you believe time stands still. Yet the end of all stories, even if the writer forbears to mention it, is death," wrote the English writer Angela Carter, who died 16 years ago this month. At the time Carter was...

A Palisades balladeer

2006-05-07 00:00:00

IN one, a poor woman from the west coast of Ireland flies, to the strains of a lonely Celtic melody, to Graceland to pay homage to Elvis Presley. In another, a British soldier wounded in World War II wanders London, recalling the days when he danced to...

Hollywood Bio Hazards

2005-02-27 00:00:00

From Moses to Malcolm X, Virginia Woolf to Loretta Lynn, historic figures have been showing up on the big screen since the early days of silent film. This year, by nominating six biographical pictures for Oscars — including three for best picture &#...

Peter O'Toole -- Retired? Maybe, but I remember him well!

2012-07-13 21:45:10

"RETIREMENT IS the ugliest word in the English language,' said Ernest Hemingway. Hmmm, well, Hemingway found another way out of the grind. I HAVE ALWAYS been impressed with Peter O'Toole, that brilliant, vivid and glamorous actor. Now he has hung up his...

'Trishna' review: Beauty and the east

2012-07-19 00:00:00

**1/2 (out of four) "Trishna" opens as if it could be an Indian cousin of "The Hangover," as Jay (Riz Ahmed of "Four Lions") and his fellow vacationing dudes either lounge and laugh freely or lay around nursing the night before. Few of the women in this...

R; 1:53 running time Updating "Tess of the d'Urbervilles" from late 19th century Wessex to contemporary India, the protean director Michael Winterbottom combines his love of Thomas Hardy with an instinct for on-the-ground, socially engaged storytelling in "Trishna.

2012-07-19 07:53:00

Thomas Hardy sentenced Thursday

2012-04-05 05:33:00

Thomas Hardy

2012-04-04 19:44:00