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1 I play James Alden (above), a disgraced journalist who's given one last chance when Natalie, a woman accused of murdering her husband, offers him an exclusive TV interview - provided he can find the real killer. Charlie Murphy, who plays Natalie, and I didn't find out how the story is resolved until late in the shoot. We even filmed some early scenes twice in different ways to maintain our uncertainty. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Twenty-five years after the release of "Schindler's List," another Holocaust epic of Jews saved from extermination is being readied for filming. In this tale, an extended family of dwarfs is spared by a Nazi from the gas chambers of Auschwitz. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Carleton Watkins: Making the West American, by Tyler Green (University of California Press; 574 pages; $34.95). Full of drama, Green's biography broadens the story of the photographer Carleton Watkins (1829-1916), who made mammoth pictures of the West, usually in the service of the men who were selling and exploiting its land. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

It's one thing for America's spies to lose the confidence of the president of the United States. It's another thing for a secret agent to split with his girlfriend, who learns that her ex was a spy only when armed assassins storm into her house. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

BROOKLYN, N.Y. - In "BlacKkKlansman," a young black detective penetrates the Ku Klux Klan in Colorado in the 1970s. The latest Spike Lee joint, as the director calls his films, is a hybrid of drama and comedy, lurching at its end to documentary footage of the bloody Charlottesville, Va., march of extreme right groups in August. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

In "Mediations," the retrospective of Susan Meiselas' photographs at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, there are pictures from 1978 of young Nicaraguan men in Indian dance masks. They have an eerie feel, but we're not looking at a Halloween party. The adolescents were practicing throwing grenades at government soldiers. The masks were a disguise to avoid detection. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

NEW YORK - Len Cariou, in a T-shirt, is in a rehearsal studio just off Broadway, down a hallway of booming opera singers. From the creaky elevator to the cramped 10th-floor space, it could have been New York from 40 years ago, when Cariou won a Tony for his role as Sweeney Todd, the murderous barber. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

In "Calder: The Conquest of Time; The Early Years: 1898-1940," the first biography of the artist, we see a picture of two brass animal figures that Alexander Calder crafted when he was 11. One is a dog, folded, shaped and cut with sleek contours and an expressively tilted head. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

FIRE investigators are probing the cause of a blaze which raged for more than ten hours at a major fish factory. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

THE wife of an Army sergeant accused of trying to murder her by tampering with her parachute has told his trial she gave police differing accounts of his actions because she wanted to 'cast suspicion' on him. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

It's midday in the 19th century painting galleries of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Hugh Welchman is looking at "Shoes," Vincent van Gogh's earth-colored painting of his shoes from 1888. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

With cinema being suffocated by sequels, superheroes and mobile devices, no less than Francis Ford Coppola is proposing a way to bring it back to life. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Taylor Mac, a singer, writer and performer of grand gestures in grand costumes, is in shorts and a tank top, drinking coffee in a storefront that's closing down as evening crowds stagger up Eighth Avenue in New York City's summer heat. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Steven Soderbergh's "Logan Lucky" is a screwball comedy of a heist movie, set at the Coca-Cola 600 in Concord, N.C., with an ensemble of misfits determined to rob the speedway. The word "deplorables" was already taken. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Debra Winger was a fixture on the big screen in the 1980s. She's been nominated for the best actress Oscar three times - for "An Officer and a Gentleman (1983)," "Terms of Endearment" (1984) and "Shadowlands" (1994). [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MURDERED British policeman Keith Palmer has been hailed at his funeral as a hero. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

"Hamilton" begins with a question from Aaron Burr - "How does a bastard, orphan, son of a whore and a Scotsman, dropped in the middle of a forgotten spot in the Caribbean by Providence, impoverished, in squalor, grow up to be a hero and a scholar?" [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

STAR Wars actress Carrie Fisher has been taken to hospital after suffering a cardiac arrest on a London to Los Angeles flight, according to reports. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

John Glenn exuded the mix of bravery and humor that came to be called "the right stuff" in the early days of the space program. But Glenn had people behind him, including a black female mathematician who calculated the speed of his space capsule's re-entry into Earth's atmosphere. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

THE homily was delivered by Gerry's close friend Fr Brian D'Arcy, who he knew as BD or Darce, and they had been friends for more than 31 years In the context of our liturgy today we were gathered for a number of purposes. One of which is to reflect not only on Gerry's life but on our own lives too and I'm very grateful to Morah and the children and Mick and Mano for asking me to share those reflections with all of us here today - it is certainly a wonderful privilege. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Joe Gould, a sometimes charming, always annoying Greenwich Village eccentric of the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s, owes his iconic status to articles in the New Yorker written by Joseph Mitchell, a writer with his own venerable reputation. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

SUPERSTAR DJ Calvin Harris had to be taken to hospital after suffering a cut to his face when a car in which he was travelling crashed in Los Angeles. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

THE majority of ebola survivors suffer some form of long-term health problem, according to a study. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The word critic doesn't put a good taste in one's mouth. It sounds as if somebody's spitting. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Much writing is about witnessing. For Edmund de Waal, it is also about holding something in your hands. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Sandow Birk's new book makes the Quran look like familiar territory. The scenes that surround the text on its huge pages show ordinary people at ordinary tasks - harvesting fields, boarding planes, cutting apart sides of beef, visiting the dentist, unloading snowboards and surfboards from cars. There are Hasidic Jews in the streets, and political protests. There are NASCAR races. There are also tanks and troops in the desert, and a street scene from the 9/11 attacks. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

"We'll always have Paris," Humphrey Bogart's Rick says to Ingrid Bergman in "Casablanca." But the next time that you're awestruck by Paris' allure, as so many visitors are, consider the city in the pages of Luc Sante's literary wanderings through a landscape of ghosts, "The Other Paris." [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Call them the shocks heard around the world. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Steven Spielberg, the director of "Bridge of Spies," remembers growing up in and with the Cold War. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

When Marlon Brando accepted his Academy Award in 1955 for best actor in "On the Waterfront," the first thing he said was, "It's much heavier than I imagined." He would learn how right he was. Fame would weigh uneasily on him from then on. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Photographer Sally Mann has put a huge amount of her life into her pictures - her camera-ready Shenandoah Valley, her husband of four decades and her three children. Is there much more to that life that could fill a memoir? We find plenty more in "Hold Still." [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The title of this thin book hints coyly at the obvious to get your attention. Acting matters since, if for no other reason, people watch acting several hours every day. "For some of us, on some days, we spend more time with acted figures than with real people," writes David Thomson. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Living with works of art can be a rich experience. Living with an art historian can be a challenge, writes Gabrielle Selz in her candid daughter-father memoir that spans almost 100 years in two lives, much of it spent in the Bay Area. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

“Star Wars” is a global institution, and an inescapable one, unless you’re locked in a cloistered convent. To find someone who hasn’t heard of the space sagas, try looking in a galaxy far, far away. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

In this article the author discusses the threat posed by the recession onto the LGBT professionals.

Reviews the motion picture "Ushpizin," directed by Gidi Dar and starring Shuli Rand and Michael Rand.

Reports on developments in the press. Acquisition of Donrey Media Group by businessman Jackson Stephens; Launching of `The Flush Rush Quarterly' newsletter by literary agent Brian Keliher.

Opinion. Refutes speculations on the role of Washington's press on the death of White House Counsel Vincent Foster. Meanness of public life; Cycle of mistrust; Statements by columnists; Portrayal of Foster as an innocent from Little Rock, Arkansas; Foster's exposure as a lawyer for corporate piranhas; Yellow journalism; Raising of legitimate questions on Foster's official roles; Function of the press corps.

Examines allegations against Orrin Hatch that he sent a letter to the Drug Enforcement Agency asking that his business partners in Pharmics Inc. be granted a special license to handle lost shipments of prescription drugs. Bill passed by Hatch; Pharmics as a salvaged-drugs business; Press reports on the case; Related developments.

Opinion. Reflects on the Clinton administration's stand on gays in the military. Protection of rights of gays on condition of discretion; Illusion of principle; Maintaining a semblance of consensus; Political environment that spawned stance.

Opinion. Criticizes President Bill Clinton's conference with defense officials on the ban on gays in the military. Reactions of journalists on gay issue; Gay groups' move to oust Senator David Boren, alleged sexual harasser in the book `Queer in America'.