The Fountainhead News

How little you have to do to get into the feature well of a slick magazine these days.

Ayn Rand was a champion of individual freedom. Her best known books dramatized the fight between statists and individualists.

As the 1950s rolled in director King Vidor's brilliant but eccentric pictures became much more eccentric than brilliant.

In 1937 a little-known author named Ayn Rand wrote to revered modernist Frank Lloyd Wright.

Before the world knew legendary actor Gary Cooper, Montana knew Frank James Cooper.

Wherein our movie critic periodically shares what DVDs he's been viewing in his spare time ... "Marlene" : Marlene Dietrich, grand Deutsch diva, is sublimely frank and haughty in this miraculous documentary portrait of the late actress.

Patricia Neal will present AS I AM at the Vineyard Playhouse August 30th as part of the "Monday Night Specials" series.

Yikes, darlings! I watch a lot of old movies on TCM, mostly because TCM are my initials.

It's so easy to associate plastic surgery with the vain excesses of neurotic celebrities and other vulgar bubbleheads that it's easy to forget the medical benefits of the practice.

For the week of Sunday, May 31, through Saturday, June 6. Reviewed by Tony Lucia.