Gamerman delves into these issues, and the often-colorful characters driving the story. There’s Jarrett and his dutiful ...

Movies that are direct follow-ups in a series of otherwise self-contained films take a risk. There’s the potential for bigger payoffs and bigger disappointments. Mission: Impossible - The Final ...

Cheating is a worldwide phenomenon, and is a challenge even here in the United States, but in Asia it has reached near-crisis levels. Last year, riots broke out when teachers at a school in Zhongxiang ...

The influx of rock music and counterculture in the 1960s signaled a new era for music journalism, and Rolling Stone became the venue for documenting this revolution. As counterculture evolved in San ...

Steve Weed’s fever was 102.4. Three days earlier, his doctor had diagnosed pneumonia and told him to cancel all appearances on the tour for Is The Library Burning, his new Random House book about the ...

“Welcome to Jurassic Park.” The four words that usher in a new generation of visual filmmaking. In that moment, when Richard Attenborough’s character welcomes the cast, and consequently, the viewer, ...

I am not the first, nor will I be the last, to point out Hollywood’s current exhaustive unoriginality. However, the overuse of recognizable brands has taken such a prominent role in entertainment that ...

Jodi Smith lost count of the number of rum and cokes her seatmate had ordered on a recent flight from Boston to Los Angeles. Was it five? Or six? "He was a nervous flier," remembers Smith. "Old enough ...

Disney’s multi-billion-dollar empire rests largely in the hands of 11 fairytale princesses. We all know their stories. We all have a favorite. For nearly eight decades, these young royals have ...

Our culture is obsessed with the idea of originality. We want things, people, and ideas to be fresh, new and authentic. We prize individuality and like people pushing into unseen territories, at least ...

When I first met Kristoffer Polaha, it was 2003 and he thought he was going to be one of the biggest stars in the world. I know this not because the then 20-something actor wore the guise of a big ...

As the child of Chinese immigrants, journalist Ben Fong-Torres knew all too well the cruelty of racism. Anti-Chinese sentiment grew in America when China entered the Korean War as an ally to North ...