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The Cold War on the eve of the building of the Berlin Wall may seem an unlikely subject for uproarious comedy, but Billy Wilder found a way to make it brutally funny in the 1961 movie, "One, Two, Three." It helped to have James Cagney starring in one of his most successful comic roles -- as the harried Coca Cola executive in West Berlin, trying to ...

Cinematographer who began his career with the emergence of the Czech New Wave in the early 1960s.

U.S. actor Mandy Patinkin has signed up to guest star on an upcoming episode of the medical drama "Three Rivers," CBS announced Wednesday.

Director, scriptwriter and producer Miloslav Smidmajer Tuesday presented his full-length documentary on Czech-born Oscar-winning film director Milos Forman that will be released in cinemas on October 8. Smidmajer, who shot another two documentary films on Forman in 1990 and 1996, also prepared a longer version of his latest film in four sequels for ...

Elizabeth McGovern is set to headline David Mameta s The Shawl at Londona s Arcola Theatre.

At his birth on July 17, 1899, James Cagney put in an uncharacteristically frail appearance for the small but wiry human tornado who swept through his entire 86 years without impediment.

As one of Hollywood's most famous "tough guy" actors, James Cagney was known for the exuberance he poured into his roles.

Tony Award winners Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin may be headed your way. New dates have been announced for An Evening with Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin , the acclaimed concert act featuring the former Evita co-stars. As previously announced, An Evening will play various Australia venues July 18-29. Initial 2010 dates include Feb.

Theatre Winter Haven has been granted special permission to present the Florida Premiere of the Kennedy Center production of "Ragtime" in February and March 2010.

For 50 years, the petit-bourgeois and the haut-bourgeois worlds of provincial France have been Claude Chabrol's happy stamping grounds and he stamps on them with varying degrees of subtlety.