Theater and Film

In celebration of the 60th anniversary of the show’s debut, the Library of Congress presents a new exhibition, I Love Lucy: An American Legend. Ball's biographer, Kathleen Brady, relates her training by Buster Keaton who "drilled her in the mantra that was the foundation of her fabled comic timing: Listen, React, then Act." more »

Do you want to ride around in a vehicle proclaiming the soothing benefits of Preparation H? Before you say no, find out how much they’ll shell out to you. You may change your mind. What’s next? Ads covering your home ... painted on your kids’ backpacks ... broadcast in your Voicemail greeting? more »

Maureen Dowd's NY Times column said it all about the upcoming television season quoting a TV producer. "All the big, corporate men saw Christina Hendricks play the bombshell secretary on Mad Men and fell in love. It’s a hot fudge sundae for men: a time when women were not allowed to get uppity or make demands" more »

A 23-year-old Jewish artist who fled to the south of France spending two years feverishly painting the history of her life, a sort of autobiographical operetta on paper. One year after she completed it the pregnant 26-year-old was transported to Auschwitz and killed more »