Leave the rooster story alone. That's human interest.

NOTE: Ranked No. 16 on my all-time top 100 of 2012 BLOGGER'S NOTE : This post originally appeared Jan. 18, 2010. I'm re-posting it ...

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Centennial Tributes: Richard Brooks Part II

By Edward Copeland We pick up our tribute to Richard Brooks in 1956. If you missed Part I, click here . Of Brooks' two 1956 releases, ...

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Love Story

“Oh my God, that’s the saddest movie ever made! It would make a stone cry! And nobody went to it!” — Orson Welles on Make Way for Tomorrow...

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Even a man who is pure at heart and says his prayers by night…

By Edward Copeland …may become a wolf when the wolfsbane blooms and the autumn moon is bright. That little poem of folklore gets repeated ...

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“Can’t you say ‘Yes, sir’ without making it sound like an insult?”

By Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. Group Theatre playwright Sidney Kingsley established his reputation in the 1930s with plays that focused on controve...

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