James Whitmore News

Producers David Permut and Mark Travis have hired playwright and "CSI" scribe David Rambo to pen the book for "Reagan," a one-man stage show about actor-turned-president Ronald Reagan.

Here's a look at some of the activities on tap at Chapman University this month: Friday, Oct.

It's hard to say where the truth really lies. October 1, 1927 Thomas Edward Bosley is born.

'Battleground' [DVD only] - A gritty, realistic, intense, award-winning, black-and-white, factually based 1949 film in which courageous American soldiers , who became known as 'the battered bastards of Bastogne,' fought off the Germans in the Battle of the Bulge during a cold, brutal winter in World War II.

Bugs. Insects. Creepy-crawlies. The prickle of something up your arm or leg, biting you, maybe injecting poison.

QUESTION: Sometime in the late 1960s or early '70s, I watched a movie starring Patty Duke that was set during World War II.

The classic 1949 film Battleground ranks as one of the best not only because Ricardo Montalban freezes to death.