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Experts are set to debate one of the most contentious questions in English History - was King Richard III a good king or a murderous tyrant? The University of Leicester is holding a free public debate on " Richard III: Benevolent King or Murderous Tyrant? " on Thursday, June 6. The event follows on from the University's momentous discovery of the ... (more)

HOLLYWOOD star Jeremy Irons regrets that Dublin TD Richard Boyd Barrett didn't get to spend longer with his biological father, Irish theatre director Vincent Dowling.

Tony winner and Broadway.com Audience Choice Award winner Christian Borle will go from Smash to cyberspace, as the actor has just landed a role in writer-director Michael Mann's upcoming cyber crime thriller, reports Deadline .

Monday night marks the national premier broadcast of the American Masters installment on Mel Brooks.

As the 150th anniversary of the burning of Darien approaches, historian Buddy Sullivan wants to clear up what he considers a misconception about the south Georgia town's Civil War history.

6, 2010 file photo, people on a tour of Plum Island, N.Y., off the coast of Long Island, watch seals relaxing on the rocky shore.

As BroadwayWorld previously reported, the American Film Institute will honor Mel B rooks with the 41st AFI Life Achievement Award, the highest accolade for a career in film.

Christine White died at the age of 86 and her former " Twilight Zone " co-star William Shatner tweeted after Christine White's obituary was published.

On the surface it seemed one of the stranger matches of the 20th century: the serious, award-winning dramatic actress Anna Maria Louisa Italiano, and the man whose fertile imagination introduced both flatulence around an Old West campfire and a singing-dancing Adolf Hitler to the silver screen, Melvin Kaminsky.

Question: I watch Encore's Westerns channel a lot. Robert J. Wilke is not a well-known name, but his face is very recognizable.

This month's column looks at Blu-ray releases of the Chaplin classic, "Monsieur Verdoux"; Laurence Olivier 's stunning "Richard III"; and the Douglas Fairbanks swashbuckler, "The Thief of Bagdad." Charles Chaplin, in his later years and later films, struggled with the old Charlie; both the character, and the style of filmmaking that had made him ... (more)

Famous funny men Robert Picardo and Lee Wilkof will appear in Neil Simon 's THE SUNSHINE BOYS for director JOHN PUTCH at Totem Pole Playhouse, for its 63rd summer season.

Miele is directed by Valeria Golino , best known to English-speaking audiences as Topper Harley's sexy, exotic girlfriend in the popular Hot Shots duology.

One difficult thing for a film critic to do can be captured in a two-part question: How do you review a film that, 1, is more of a mood piece than an example of narrative storytelling and, 2, resists your every effort to describe it without giving too much away? Faced with that challenge, I came up with the following for my review of Terrence ... (more)

Machine operators Mike Good, left, and John Williams wait to help voters at the Hummelstown Fire Co.

This exclusive outtake from the latest entry in PBS's "American Masters" series, "Mel Brooks: Make a Noise" , tells a classic story that's also a real-life version of a classic joke, the one about the stressed-out movie producer who, when asked why he doesn't change jobs, answers, "It beats working." In the broadcast, Brooks - who is eighty-six - ... (more)

FILE PHOTO: A Marine of the Mounted Color Guard salutes as he and Old Glory pass by the grand marshal in the 51st Annual Armed Forces Day Parade in Torrance May 15, 2010.

Historic Webbley - a Cleveland County landmark, long the home of well-known Gardner and Webb family members and a former bed-and-breakfast - is for sale with a list price of $1.6 million.

The caper comedy "The Angels' Share" may be the closest Ken Loach, the rabidly left-wing British filmmaker, has ever gotten to a mainstream Hollywood movie - and that's a good thing and a bad thing.

K ristine Nielsen and Lewis J. Stadlen have won the Actors' Equity Foundation's Richard Seff Award for their respective performances in V anya and Sonia and Masha and Spike and The Nance .