Papillon News

This week, a new look at Steve McQueen - by a fellow Hoosier. Plus Indianapolis Opera's "La Boheme." __________ One of the first grown-up movies I attended on my own was "Papillon." What drove my 10-year-old self to see this brutal 1973 escape film, I still don't know.

I never had really given much thought to all the great prison-related movies there have been over the years, until I started compiling a list.

Dalton Trumbo was one of the most successful screenwriters in the country when he was subpoenaed in 1947 to testify before the House American Un-American Activities Committee investigating citizens suspected of having Communist leanings.

As a Realtor, I get used to being seen as one-dimensional. At cocktail parties, baseball games, tennis matches, grocery runs, cleaning pick-ups, vacations, charity events, anywhere, people can't help themselves; they are apt to start right in on topic A: their home.

John William Saunders III, left, as he appeared in his Highland Park High School class of 1956 senior picture, acted in dozens of movies and television shows using the name John Quade.

A casting call for a new Denzel Washington movie was like any other job fair to many of the hundreds who turned out in Ohio.

Eric Brandon was rolling along, a popular longtime DJ on golden oldies Majic . It all changed on April 6, 2006.

John Quade, who played the heavy in several Clint Eastwood movies and was the sheriff in the TV miniseries "Roots," has died.

Some 50,000 visitors a year can't be wrong: Devil's Island is becoming a tourist attraction.

Arnold Schwarzenegger was one of the first action movie stars of the 80s. Perhaps he was one of the first action movie stars, period.

Aquilonia vanished beneath the sands. So did Hyboria, Stygia, Kush, Mesopotamia, Phoenicia and Sparta.

If Hoffman is still a great actor, he owes it to himself and to us all to find a few projects of size before his smile turns daft, says David Thomson He has an absent-minded look on his face these days, which gives way to an angelic smile, as if to say, "Well, nothing much really matters any more, does it?" And at 72, perhaps some people can get ...