Even stars get star-struck. It happened Monday to Zoe Saldana, Katie Holmes and Renee Zellweger at Elle magazine's Women in Hollywood tribute, where they were honored alongside legendary actress Julie Andrews. ...more

October 20, 2009

"The better the villain," Alfred Hitchcock said, "the better the movie." And in the epic production that is the United States of America, we have followed that advice since the earliest settlers landed. For every hero the American story factory produces, a vivid new villain comes off the assembly line in short order. ...more

April 2, 2009

While driving home one day, Chris Coad Taylor of Land O' Lakes said she was inspired to write her first book "Secrets of Havenridge." ...more

March 18, 2009

You can now get a retro TV fix thanks to modern digital technology. Golden oldies like "Wagon Train," "McHale's Navy," "Dragnet" and dozens more are being recycled on 8 Prime, a new channel that WFLA launched on Monday. ...more

January 6, 2009

What's old is new again on 8 Prime, a digital television channel launched today by WFLA, Channel 8. ...more

January 5, 2009

"Spellbound by Beauty: Alfred Hitchcock and His Leading Ladies," by Donald Spoto (Harmony Books, $26) ...more

November 9, 2008

Paul Newman, the Oscar-winning superstar who personified cool as the anti-hero of such films as "Hud," ''Cool Hand Luke" and "The Color of Money" — followed by a second act as an activist, race car driver and popcorn impresario — has died. He was 83. ...more

September 28, 2008

The wild burro wouldn't take no for an answer. We had already encountered grazing pronghorn antelope, packs of wild turkeys, prairie dogs and enough bison to render us downright blase when yet another of the enormous beasts emerged on our four-day trip through the Black Hills of South Dakota. ...more

August 29, 2008

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Snow White, Dorothy Gale, the HAL 9000 computer, Charles Chaplin's Little Tramp and Marlon Brando's Godfather share top billing among the American Film Institute's best genre movies. Films featuring those characters were among the No. 1 picks Tuesday on the AFI's top-10 lists of the finest flicks in 10 genres, including mystery, Westerns, sports tales and courtroom dramas. ...more

June 18, 2008

There are a lot of well-chronicled reasons to go to the Tampa Theatre. I found two more recently. ...more

November 7, 2007