Saplings from the tree Anne Frank used to measure the seasons while hiding from the Nazis could be planted in 10 cities around the United States. ...more

April 17, 2009

"Slumdog Millionaire" took the best-picture Academy Award and seven other Oscars on Sunday, including director for Danny Boyle, whose ghetto-to-glory story paralleled the film's unlikely rise to Hollywood's summit. ...more

February 23, 2009

Fans of this month's Academy Awards - and nominees themselves - are in for something new at Hollywood's biggest party, the show's overseers said Monday. ...more

February 2, 2009

Meryl Streep of the Roman Catholic drama "Doubt" and Sean Penn of the Harvey Milk film biography "Milk" won lead-acting honors Sunday at the Screen Actors Guild Awards. ...more

January 25, 2009

The family drama "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas" depicts the Holocaust through the simplistic eyes of a child: all the brutality, all the absurdity, crystallized by the innocence of an 8-year-old boy. ...more

November 20, 2008

The Incredible Hulk **½ ...more

October 24, 2008

In the beginning, there was a boy, a girl and an apple. He was a teenager in a concentration camp in Nazi-controlled Germany. She was a bit younger, living free in the village, her family posing as Christians. Their eyes met through a barbed-wire fence and she wondered what she could do for this handsome young man. ...more

October 13, 2008

SEASON 1 (not reviewed) The underwhelming performance of the big-screen remake starring Steve Carell probably won't move many units of this four-disc set featuring all 30 episodes of the TV original's 1965 season. Still, fans of Don Adams' secret agent and the spoofy storylines created by Mel Brooks and Buck Henry may want to indulge by adding this to their collection. ...more

August 7, 2008

Abe Gold was prisoner No. 49119. At 82, he isn't likely to forget the number that was stitched into his shirt and punched on his dog tag. Nor is he likely to forget the excruciating hunger and terrifying desperation that came with being held in one of World War II's infamous Nazi death camps. ...more

May 8, 2008

I read with great emotion the Nov. 29 letter of the day from John Berninger regarding the death of his brother. ...more

December 2, 2007