William Powell News

Rapt Susannah Biller as Daisy and Marco Panuccio as Jay Gatsby have a stairway encounter in Ensemble Parallele's production of "The Great Gatsby." A sensitive nerve in the American soul was tweaked with the publication of Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" in 1925.

The best of the 'Thin Man' series get re-released, a board game that everyone wins is available for family time, 2012 myths are debunked, and more top picks.

Good on Cheryll Devall of KPCC for working up a radio piece on today's 70th anniversary of the day that Hollywood comic actress Carole Lombard died in a plane crash.

We all probably know someone like Clarence Day Sr. - a family patriarch not easy to please, but ultimately with his family's best interest at heart.

Up front in the Norton Museum of Art's new "Cocktail Culture" exhibit is a video clip of William Powell in full alcoholic splendor in 1934's The Thin Man, a movie in which Powell might be completely sober for perhaps 10 minutes.