Jason Robards News

Critics love David Letterman. They love him because he's mean and liberal and does everything they demand: further the leftist agenda through the brutal use of humiliation to target any public figure who might derail Leftist causes.

How come magazine and fashion editors are always portrayed as such unpleasant termagants in movies? We could answer that, but we don't want to get in trouble with our boss.

Today is Sunday, July 26, the 207th day of 2009 with 158 to follow. The moon is waxing.

THE MARTIN SCORSESE movie "The Aviator" is a small gold mine for aficionados of Oscar trivia.

Directed by Fred Zinneman. Starring: Jane Fonda, Vanessa Redgrave, Jason Robards and way down in the cast list... Meryl Streep Imagine you're the casting director for a prestige piece about hotheaded playwright Lillian Hellman and her friend Julia, a wealthy anti-fascist who puts her life on the line to save Jews in 193os Germany.

Certainly, it doesn't show the world or humanity in its best light, but this is one full Moon that most theatre lovers aren't going to want to miss.

Longtime conspirators Brian Dennehy and Robert Falls wrestle with another O'Neill classic: Desire Under the Elms .

Hailed by some as an anti-war classic, 1971's "Johnny Got His Gun" is finally on DVD.

An excerpt from Sidney Lumet's 1962 film of Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night , starring Ralph Richardson and Jason Robards: Posted April 29, 2009 12:00 AM ABOUT "ABOUT LAST NIGHT" AND ITS AUTHORS This is a blog about the arts in New York City and the rest of America, written by Terry Teachout , Laura Demanski , and Carrie Frye .

After a shell leaves his body mangled on the final day of World War I, young Joe Bonham lies trapped in a hospital bed, a fully conscious quadruple amputee who cannot speak, hear or see, left to wander within his own mind between his harsh reality and memories of a happier life long gone.

Photograph by: Handout, Files Johnny Got His Gun 5/5 stars Dalton Trumbo's timeless meditation on what it means to be wounded in battle, and the absurd tragedy of war itself, finally sees North American release with this features-laden disc.

Video Event of the Week: Is it Fox Home Video's Blu-ray of the restored Todd-AO version of Joshua Logan 's humongously widescreen South Pacific ? Might the Weinstein Company's DVD of the inexplicably Oscar-nominated Holocaust porn The Reader get the nod? Or against everything good and holy in this world, could Frank Miller 's appalling adaptation ...