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FILM: The Shining Tense and unnerving horror by Stanley Kubrick. A man looks after an old hotel during the winter.

With the Schopp and the Bulldog 'Actor Draft' coming up Tuesday, November 10th at 4:25 p.m., I decided to consult with an expert on who might be the #1 overall draft pick.

Adapting a novel to the stage can be tricky. The narrative voice is easy to lose; the emphasis shifts from an internal perspective to external action and dialogue.

The great maverick filmmaker Alexander Payne has worked with some great ones -- launching Reese Witherspoon with Election, bouncing Giamatti, Sandra Oh and Thomas Haden Church with Sideways, making Jack Nicholson do a lot more than phone it in with About Schmidt.

Halloween brings out the worst in some -- and the best in others. Michael Myers, for example, doesn't do well on Oct.

As Disney offers refunds to US parents who bought Baby Einstein DVDs and have been disappointed with the results, our writer asks why middle-class parents ever believed that babies could be hothoused by sticking them in front of a TV I remember the moment that I made my baby a genius.

When we make mistakes they call it evil. When God makes mistakes they call it Nature! [Jack Nicholson in "The Witches of Eastwick"] Archives Marc Hauser - where do morals come from? NOT religion.

A DECADE ago, Helen Hunt won a Best Actress Oscar for playing Jack Nicholson's harassed waitress in As Good As It Gets.

When it comes to horror movies, like everything else, they don't make 'em like they used to: Jack Nicholson in 'The Shining.' There's plenty of new blood at the multiplex right now, but sometimes only old-school scares will do.

If the gobs of candy, the array of costumes and the jack-o'-lanterns haven't sufficiently put you in the mood for Halloween, turn to your DVD player.

The spider walk scene from "The Exorcist" was too scary for a mass audience in 1973, but was edited back into the movie for re-release. What are your favorite scary movies of all time? Everybody has their favorites.

The shops are sold out of pumpkins, all the costume stores have been ransacked, and The Simpsons have got a special episode out.

Being a foodie at the movies - total hell. I am so hungry after the first scene of "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs," I run for a kraut dog and a large Coke .

Caption: Jack Nicholson and Paul Rudd on the film set of an untitled James L. Brooks Project at the Widener Office Building Philadelphia, Pennsylvania .... JACK NICHOLSON almost lost out on the role of The Joker in 1989's BATMAN movie - because SPIDER-MAN star WILLEM DAFOE was director TIM BURTON's first choice.

Stanley Kubrick's classic 1980 movie The Shining has been named the scariest horror film of all time, by a team of movie experts.

The Shining, Carrie and The Pet Sematary are perhaps some of Stephen King's best horror movies.

THE SHINING a ' Stephen King didna TMt care for Stanley Kubricka TMs take on his novel.

Hello and welcome to another edition of SoundCzech, our language course in which you can pick up Czech idioms through song lyrics.

A landmark independent production from 40 years ago gets a high-definition buff and leads off this look at movies that have arrived on DVD this week.

The editor of Hauntworld magazine doesn't sound scary. Scary is the low, raspy voice of the demon-possessed Linda Blair in The Exorcist or Jack Nicholson's "Heeeeeere's Johnny!" line in The Shining.