In his memoir, the legendary Elia Kazan wrote about directing Vivien Leigh in "A Streetcar Named Desire." While he did not think that Leigh was a great natural actress, he was impressed that she would crawl through glass to get the role right. ...more

May 8, 2008

Democrat Barack Obama would narrowly defeat Republican John McCain if they were matched today in the presidential election, while McCain and Hillary Rodham Clinton are running about even, according to new general-election sentiment since the Super Tuesday contests. ...more

February 12, 2008

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and her advisers increasingly think that, after a series of losses, she has been boxed into a must-win position in the Ohio and Texas primaries March 4, and she has begun reassuring anxious donors and superdelegates that the nomination is not slipping away from her, aides said Monday. ...more

February 12, 2008

On a day when campaign advisers hoped the final debate before the Iowa caucuses would help re-establish her as the frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton instead offered a formal apology to Sen. Barack Obama and accepted the resignation of a prominent campaign organizer who had raised questions about her rival's use of drugs. ...more

December 14, 2007