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THE MIRACLE WORKER a ' Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke won Oscars for their work in this 1962 drama.

No college alum should have to suffer after graduation like Benjamin Braddock does in 1967's "The Graduate." When I graduate in a few weeks, I sure hope I don't. Benjamin, portrayed by Dustin Hoffman, is adrift after graduating from some unnamed east coast university, and it's his struggle to find his way in life again which forms the core of the ...

This year marked the centenary of the birth of James Mason. Little fuss was made of the fact.

Forget the twinkle in her eye or the tinkle in her laugh. The way to tell if a woman likes you is to look at her feet.

"To this day, when I say that I went to the American Academy, people are very impressed.

I'm a huge Mel Brooks fan but, even though it has been out since a year after I was born, I had never seen his film Silent Movie.

Norman Rockwell nightmare: "Home for the Holidays" with Anne Bancroft, Robert Downey Jr.

Looking to relax at home over the holidays? Need a good movie recommendation? Here are our five favorite Thanksgiving movies, out now on DVD, that are worth considering.

The weekend's free movies at the Library of Congress Packard Campus Theater on Mount Pony focus on overcoming obstacles or getting over on somebody.

Even though Anne Bancroft seduced a much younger Dustin Hoffman in The Graduate in 1967, it must have been hard then to believe that 42 years later, a cruise specifically for frisky middle-age females would be so popular.

We know The Miracle Worker is a wonderful play about Helen Keller. We've come a long way since the 1962 movie starring Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke.

Oscar nominee Abigail Breslin will make her Broadway debut next March in the first rialto revival of 1960 best play winner "The Miracle Worker." Breslin will play Helen Keller while Tony nominee Alison Pill takes on the role of her inspirational teacher Annie Sullivan .

Today is Monday, Oct. 19, the 292nd day of 2009. There are 73 days left in the year.

Today is Monday, Oct. 19, the 292nd day of 2009. There are 73 days left in the year.

Meg Roe promises to strip The Miracle Worker down to its beautiful bones. The production that Roe is directing runs at the Playhouse from tonight to October 31, but William Gibson's script started life in 1957 on television's dramatic anthology Playhouse 90.

Sentimental? Yes. Done a thousand times? Yes. Still, despite the folderol of the script, The Miracle Worker usually packs a punch - if the production manages to find a good Helen Keller.

Cage and CBS's Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All earned her Emmy Award nominations.

The film festival is pure gold if you are a MLF. . Hollywood has finally heeded the charms of women over 40 and half of those are in town for TIFF, touting movies or jostling with teenyboppers on the red carpet.

As Susan Sontag put it in 1972, "Getting older is less profoundly wounding for a man, for in addition to the propaganda for youth that puts both men and women on the defensive as they age, there is the double standard of ageing that denounces women with special severity." Hollywood has been an unashamed supporter of this double standard, allowing ...

'The Graduate' Before the word "cougar" ever entered the lexicon, people called older women who dated younger men "Mrs. Robinsons." And for good reason.