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Magnificent obsession Reviewed by Rob Sharp Last month's reviews of Vladimir Nabokov's The Original of Laura, "the novel in fragments" published by his son Dmitri 32 years after the great man's death, were less than praiseworthy.

23, 1922 - " Dec. 21, 2009, one of the busiest and most recognizable character actresses in Britain, has died.

Originally made in 2007, this routine, low-budget horror/thriller/slasher flick should and would have gone straight to DVD if not for a better-than-average cast of cult film personalities.

I love audiobooks, in part because I'm lazy and in part because I'm not. Rather than sitting still and moving my eyes over a page, I like to roam around and do stuff - iron, say, or defrost my freezer.

James Mason in "North By Northwest" in 1959. James Mason is a category of one. Too handsome and substantial to be a supporting player, he was too dark, too aloof ever to last as a true romantic lead - too much a classical actor to be a matinee idol, and vice versa.

Wily chess master that he was, the director rarely resorted to bombast. But in his third attempt to make Napoleon -a film that, according to his widow, Christiane Kubrick, 'swallowed [him] up' like no other-he was willing to make an exception.

Actress and activist Shirley Douglas admits she was away from home for lengthy periods of time to pursue the stage and screen and it was hard on her children, including "24" star Kiefer Sutherland.

'Frank Langella's role in The Box could easily win an Oscar for best 10-minute performance in a film with no other redeeming feature' Frank Langella will be 72 on New Year's Day, and he is ready.

Those who create a remake of an earlier popular movie must be certain of one thing: Are there good reasons for making the imitation? The list of senseless remakes is long.

Did tough financial times cause the former "Lolita" star to neglect her two pups? PETA Dominique Swain once posed nude for a PETA ad, but did the actress neglect her own puppies? It sounds like a oeAlpha Doga starlet and PETA spokeswoman Dominique Swain needs a refresher course on how to treat animals.

In "Hummingbirds," Joshua Gaylord chronicles the "glowing daughters of the social elite" at Carmine-Casey, an all-girls school in Manhattan.

Westwood Gallery Soho 568 Broadway, Suite 501, 212-925-5700 November 21, 2009 - January 9, 2010 Opening: Friday, November 20, 6 - 8 PM Web Site Westwood Gallery is pleased to exhibit a new series by artist Bryan El Castillo.

Fifteen years before Roman Polanksi drugged and raped a 13-year-old, Stanley Kubrick directed James Mason and Sue Lyon through a similarly vile course in Lolita.

Pretty yet perverted, innocent yet disturbing - with its gingham chiffon, fan pleating, puff sleeves, and thigh-split dresses, Christopher Kane 's Spring collection walked the fine line between good and bad taste that has made his clothes such a phenomenon.

Earlier this month the British actor/comedian Peter Sellers, best known to the world as the bumbling Inspector Clouseau in the "Pink Panther" series, would have turned 84.

Comedian Peter Sellers was born on September 8th, 1925. Had he not died of a heart attack in 1980, he'd be 84 years old today.

Viennese composer and trumpeter Franz Koglmann is a well-known commuter between the arts and modern chamber jazz.

London, Lolita Henry Hitchings's rating Reader rating Description: Richard Nelson's monologue adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's controversial novel about forbidden love.

The shape-shifting aspects of Peter Sellers made him one of the most versatile actors around - his many faces, voices and impressions lending themselves to characters such as Inspector Clouseau and Dr.

Thesps Dominique Swain and Shannyn Sossamon joined the cast of helmer Monte Hellman's romantic thriller, "Road to Nowhere." Swain and Sossamon join Cliff De Young, John Diehl, Waylon Payne and Tygh Runyan in the noirish tale of a young filmmaker who becomes enmeshed in a criminal scheme while making a movie on location.