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Gore Vidal dies at 86; iconoclastic author

2012-07-31 22:56:00

Gore Vidal was impossible to categorize, which was exactly the way he liked it. The reading public knew him as a literary juggernaut who wrote 25 novels —from the historical "Lincoln" to the satirical "Myra Breckinridge" — and volumes of...

Gore Vidal's spat with Charlton Heston over gay 'Ben-Hur' subtext

2012-08-01 12:13:00

Back in the Jurassic Age before Twitter, celebrities used to settle scores in public by writing letters to newspapers. One of the liveliest dust-ups in memory took place in the pages of the L.A. Times between actor Charlton Heston and�Gore Vidal, the...

Saturday's TV Highlights: A couple find only children in a small town in 'Children of the Corn.;

2009-09-26 04:34:18

On the Brink of the 1960s

2009-12-30 16:32:51

Gold Derby nuggets: Oscars previews and reviews | Whither Oscars ratings? | Emmys live nationwide

2010-03-05 16:33:19

Author Gore Vidal dies: Was knows for best-selling novels 'Burr,' 'Myra,' more

2012-08-01 21:55:08

The prolific, and often controversial, writer Gore Vidal, who contributed to the theater, TV and film with such notable Broadway dramas as "The Best Man" and "Visit to a Small Planet" (both adapted from his original teleplays) and screen adaptations of...

Dolores Hart: My Interview with One Special Nun

2012-02-21 11:35:00

Mother Dolores Hart, who lives a cloistered life at the Abbey of Regina Laudis in Bethelhem, CT, will walk the red carpet Sunday� in support of the Oscar-nominated documentary, "God Is The Bigger Elvis," about her life.Here is Frank Rizzo's interview from...

'Ben-Hur: 50th Anniversary Ultimate Collector's Edition'

2011-08-24 12:34:57

One of the top Oscar winners in movie history, director William Wyler's classic - boasting the most famous chariot race ever filmed - gets a major home-video relaunch. Charlton Heston (who earned his own Academy Award for the epic) has the title role,...

Merry Christmas! Ralphie lands at 8 p.m. Friday on TBS

2010-12-23 16:36:51

'Che' stars Benicio Del Toro, Demian Bichir

2009-01-15 14:24:15

Director Steven Soderbergh's two-part, four-hour "Che" is part folly and part fulfillment, a methodical if coolly romantic portrait of the most familiar 1960s T-shirt icon outside the peace symbol. Some would argue way, way outside the peace symbol....

Latest Alabama News

2007-10-23 00:00:00

Latest Alabama news, sports, business and entertainment: MOBILE TORNADO �� Weather officials: tornado touched down in Mobile County �� MOBILE, Ala. (AP) -- Weather officials said Mobile County was hit by at least one tornado yesterday afternoon. ��...

From down to delirious

1998-10-04 00:00:00

Forgive them for acting a little silly. For offering up metaphors for life. And crediting a change to green Gatorade from orange. For sprawling on the Soldier Field turf when the day was over and making grass angels until they didn't know whether to laugh...

A chariot driven by actor Stephen Boyd, left foreground, smashes into camera crew on June 17, 1958, during filming of "Ben Hur" in Rome. Charlton Heston, center, veers his chariot away from the mishap. Sun umbrellas topple and crewmen scatter, foreground, as the camera position is overrun.

2012-10-17 16:10:00

. It was nominated for the Oscar in 1967 (best art direction-set decoration, color; best costume design, color).

2008-11-18 17:29:34

In 1966's Hollywood sendup "The Oscar," Stephen Boyd plays an actor ruthlessly clawing his way to fame while Ernest Borgnine's inquisitive private eye gets in his way.

2007-08-22 18:42:31