Doctor Zhivago News

Choosing a favorite television channel is kind of silly, because they're so inconsistent - the one that has "The Colbert Report" at 11:30 also has "The Jeff Dunham Show" at 10:30. But if I had to, I'd pick Turner Classic Movies, which has developed into a great channel partly because it hasn't bothered with original content.

Zhivago -- was shown on the TMC channel today . David Lean's rendering of Doctor Zhivago will celebrate its 45th anniversary in 2010, and the film was featured this evening by television's TMC as part of its "The Gigantic World of Epics" series.

CBS is playing up Russell as the most evil player in "Survivor" history. He's also one of the five players remaining as the series offers its two-hour finale at 8 p.m. Sunday.

Omar Sharif and Faten Hamama were the film industry's dream couple for 20 years.

Director David Lean would do many films in his 83 years, but he would become a master of sweeping historical dramas, "Doctor Zhivago" and "A Passage to India" among them.

Zhivago's Cafe recently opened on Broadway in the former Dilettante Chocolate location and offers espresso, piroshkis which are turnovers made of wonderful soft bread pillows filled with flavorful meats or cheese, borscht and desserts and soon a dinner menu with Kabobs.

Bronte's gothic tale of moors madness gets the William Wyler treatment in this classic movie version starring Merle Oberon as Cathy and Laurence Olivier as Heathcliffe.

Italian composer, whose works include La Traviata and Don Carlo. 1923: Nicholas Parsons.

American actor, director and producer. 1985: Yul Brynner. American actor, whose films include The Magnificent Seven and The King and I. 1999: Peter Moro CBE.

EVEN THE LOSERS: Paul Rudd, left, and Sean William Scott take a stab at being 'Role Models' in this uneven 2008 comedy, airing at 10 p.m. on Cinemax.

After years in the wilderness, Omar Sharif, the most successful Arab actor, is on his way back, and returns to his homeland for a cinematic renaissance at age of 77.

All aboard ... a scene from The Darjeeling Limited. Trains and railways have provided the backdrop to many great movies.

Durham Holly Goddard Jones The Regulator Bookshop - Young Greensboro-based writer Holly Goddard Jones brings her debut collection of short fiction to The Regulator tonight at 7. Her cycle of stories, called Girl Trouble , centers on the perhaps fictitious town of Roma, Ky., and a few of its troubled inhabitants.

You couldn't say veteran TIFF press conference moderator Henri Behar asks a lot of smart questions, but he came up with a good one for director Stephen Poliakoff at the Wednesday afternoon Q&A for Glorious 39 : Namely, how did he convince Julie Christie to come out of semi-retirement and act in the film? Having been to the press conference and seen ...

When Mildred and Richard Loving were fighting Virginia for the right to be married though being of different races, a respectable judge in the commonwealth expressed an absurd, yet seemingly acceptable, bit of logic: God put geographic expanses between people of different races, because he obviously intended that they not intermarry.

For Omar Sharif, the future and the past are useless. The only thing that counts for the Egyptian actor is the present.

Hollywood icon recalls difficult times during his early days in film, and the toll his career took on his marriage Saturday, September 12, 2009 Listen to the Article - Powered by Interview Mike Collett-White Reuters VENICE: For Omar Sharif, the future and the past are useless.

"The Traveler," an Egyptian film by first-time feature director Ahmed Maher, is vying for the festival's Golden Lion award.

For Omar Sharif, the future and the past are useless. The only thing that counts for the Egyptian actor is the present.

Twenty-five films that made it from the book shelf to the box office with credibility intact.