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On July 22, 1934, one of America's most notorious bank robbers was gunned down outside Chicago's Biograph Theater.

Philip Seymour Hoffman appears in 2013's "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire." Hoffman played the role of Plutarch Heavensbee, the head gamemaker in the film.

AS STROUD celebrates the centenary of writer and poet Laurie Lee , a thoughtful book by another Slad poet forms a worthy tribute.

Members of the Legislature's transportation study committee submitted their recommendations to the Bureau of Motor Vehicles Tuesday afternoon.

LAURIE LEE'S Slad Valley has been saved a day after the same developers had been given the green light to build 150 homes in Leonard Stanley - three miles away.

Bennett Miller's Foxcatcher is coming to the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival.

In this week's Republican Address, Rep. Steve Scalise, R-Louisiana, discussed the importance of bipartisan jobs bills, blaming Congressional Democrats for blocking "bill after bill."

Spot on. My first reaction after I finished watching it, was checking IMDB to see when the next one is coming.

Love is in the air, or maybe that's just the backwoods -- but Herbert "Cowboy" Coward from "Hillbilly Blood" is about to hook up with Mema from "Hollywood Hillbillies."

By the time the next film from Steven Spielberg hits theaters, it will have been nearly three years since Lincoln hit theaters.

Slumdog Millionaire star Dev Patel is to play a founding father of the digital age in a Hollywood movie to be filmed in Cambridge.

Trying to decide which Showtime series possess the most unpleasant characters often depends on what time of years it us.

With six books and countless appearances to her name, Doris Kearns Goodwin is usually not at a loss for words.

Baltimore is featured tomorrow night on Comedy Central's "Drunk History" with Lutherville native Derek Waters and company re-enacting stories from the lives of Edgar Allan Poe, Francis Scott Key and Abraham Lincoln.

Barbra Streisand does a lot of singing on transit - over the course of Funny Girl, Funny Lady, Yentl and Hello Dolly she sings aboard a train, a plane, a taxi a tugboat, and an ocean liner.

Doors history isn't all in ancient past when your grandparents were young, Jim Morrison noted 'we're passing through history' and there is some Doors history of the recent past.

Court documents show Philip Seymour Hoffman rejected his accountant's suggestion that he set aside money for his three children because he didn't want them to be "trust fund" kids.

John Luther Adams at Lincoln Center - Pulitzer Prize winning composer John Luther Adams debuts his latest work "Sila: The Breath of the World" with top contemporary performers in the Hearst Plaza in free performances on Friday and Saturday presented by Lincoln Center Out of Doors and the Mostly Mozart Festival, lcoutofdoors.com Patti LuPone at 54 ... (more)

As re-enactors of from the Army of the Shenandoah marched in formation across a shade-dappled Mentor field, a man dressed as Major General James A. Garfield bristled.

In "Uber Ray," Ran Donovan has set up its major conflicts for the upcoming season, and so far, it's looking good.