Colin Marshall

Some successful Hollywood producers spend their money on yachts, sports teams, and European castles. Norman Lear's biggest purchase, or at least his most famous one, was a copy of the Declaration of Independence.

Villains who live in opulent, remote modernist houses may have been a cliché since the last century, but given Hollywood's addiction to the tried and true, they do still turn up now and again.

Alfred Hitchcock made so many timeless films, but S pellbound , alas, hasn't held up quite so comfortably.

Asked to identify 'the Athens of the South,' many Americans might well point to Athens, Georgia, especially if they happen to be fans of REM, the B-52s, or Of Montreal.

Alfred Hitchcock was not American, as even casual viewers of his television show could tell right away.

Public and commercial spaces around the world are now lined with imagery of a vertebra-studded battle helmet and statues surrounded by flame. It's all part of the promotional campaign for Christopher Nolan's adaptation of the Odyssey, which will begin opening in theaters later this month.

Every time the World Cup comes around, or at least since England first and last won it 60 years ago, there's talk of whether it'll be brought “back

It's no small project to found a new society, especially when you're doing it on the scale of a place like Russia.

This past spring, the oldest continuously operated family-owned Chinese restaurant in the United States served its last plate of chop suey.

Today, if you want to know about any of the flora or fauna that surround us, you have only to look it up online.