Advise & Consent News

In this era of rampant cynicism, Americans are at once fascinated by and repulsed by politics.

Gene Tierney was born in Brooklyn to wealthy parents on Nov. 20, 1920. Her father was a prosperous stockbroker.

Author Allen Drury wrote his famous allegorical novel "Advise and Consent" in 1959.

The son of a Yorkshire hotel keeper, Laughton was expected to go into the family business after graduating from Stonyhurst School at age 16.

The Fourth of July, America's Independence Day, used to be a time when people gathered in town squares to hear speakers talk about America, its history and what made the country what it was.

Jason Anderson At the height of his fame in the 1950s and '60s, his name alone was enough to brand a movie with an air of old-world class and prestige.

Charles Laughton had a vast career in film. He was Quasimodo in "Hunchback of Notre Dame." He was in Alfred Hitchcock's "The Paradine Case." He was Capt.