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The Angel of Death has been hovering close to the rich and famous lately, taking from us some beloved entertainers.

Celebrating the centennial of actress Mary Pickford, the Library of Congress is co-hosting a series of classic films in which she stars in theaters around the country through December.

The Proposal is formulaic . The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 is formulaic . Imagine That is formulaic .

Sunnyside is a sprawling, engrossing pastiche of America before and after World War I, somewhat in the manner of E.L. Doctorow's Ragtime .

Testing your knowledge of Canadiana Try your luck at these all-Canadian questions Created by MICHAEL LIGHTSTONE Staff Reporter Wed.

Europe has its crypt-laden cathedrals and ancient cemeteries serving as dire reminders of death.

The list of things Michelle Pfeiffer doesn't want to hear includes this sentence: "The way I see it, your golden age was 1987 to 1993." And yet some of us are idiots, and say it anyway.

When I was a kid, the movie "Pollyanna" had just come out and I had this huge crush on Hayley Mills.

THERE are any number of theories why 1939, by common consent, is considered the greatest year in Hollywood's history - with its 70th anniversary is being celebrated by a 39-film retrospective beginning Tuesday on TCM.

Last month, in the aftermath of Cannes , New Zealand film-maker Jane Campion made an impassioned plea to women to take up arms against what she described as the "old boys' network" of the movie industry.

Glen David Gold's first novel in the eight years since his bestselling, much-loved debut Carter Beats the Devil opens with the death of Charlie Chaplin .

I've been told by my elders that Jacksonville was on the road to being our "movie capital" until they all shoved off for California.

In the opening of "Sunnyside,'' the new novel from Glen David Gold, the fatherless son of a lighthouse keeper tries in vain to rescue a man whose leaky boat is about to sink off the Northern California coast.

Reporting from Milan, Italy -- By the time the spring-summer 2010 men's Fashion Week in Milan wrapped up Tuesday, the runway had showcased enough old-school macho archetypes to form its own version of the Village People.

"The Golden Age of Hollywood" is a term usually mentioned in hushed tones, filled with awe and a feeling of nostalgia for those that lived through it, and an unfulfilled longing for those "born too late." It began roughly with the advent of sound motion pictures and ran through The Great Depression and World War II.

You could say Sunnyside, Glen David Gold's sprawling, ambitious new novel, is about the formation of United Artists.

Pedro Almodvar's latest lampoons the movie industry. But making a film about a world that you know can prove tricky, writes Charles Gant Behind the screen ... Penelope Cruz in Pedro Almodovar's Broken Embraces Plenty of people harbour the illusion that their lives would make great material for a movie, so we shouldn't be too surprised that ...

Oh, that Michael Cera. Hea TMs got the golden touch, literally, with Jack Black in Year One.

Since Camille Paglia is a giantess of cultural criticism - a "razor thinker and a bullet speaker," according to her introduction, and a teacher of 38 years - she should know how to seduce an audience.

It's hard to imagine how Glasvegas could top themselves after performing at a wedding chapel in their namesake city, Las Vegas, a couple of weeks ago.