Wonder Boys movie: Well-known and generally admired – but inadequate – actors and an overbearing directorial hand fatally thwart Curtis Hanson’s attempt to revive Hollywood’s screwball comedies of the 1930s.…
Stage Beauty movie: Mixing elements from All About Eve and Shakespeare in Love, among other titles, Richard Eyre and Jeffrey Hatcher’s big-screen version of the latter’s play fails to delve…
Sexologist Alfred Kinsey was criticized by some for his methodology and by others for daring to delve into the issue of human sexuality. As a result, the Kinsey Scale creator…
In Old Arizona movie: Fox’s Cisco Kid Western is notable as the first all-talking motion picture shot outdoors, for earning Warner Baxter the first Best Actor Academy Award for a…
Beyond Paradise: The Life of Ramon Novarro: Biography of tragic gay actor discusses his personal life and career. (Pictured: The Ben-Hur star with Greta Garbo in the 1931 blockbuster Mata…