Elaine May

Millions watched " Mad Men" make history on ABC as basic cable's first show to win a best drama award at the 60th annual Primetime Emmy Awards. Way up the tuner on AMC, a tiny sliver of that audience watched the most recent "Mad Men." Same scenario for "...

So, a "Mad" night after all. Engrossing, brilliantly acted and written, yet low-rated, AMC's " Mad Men" wasn't necessarily a lock to win commercial TV's highest honor Sunday night. But win it did: The show, about advertising business in the 1960s, became...

Amway Shakespeare Opportunity Twitter of the Shrew will be at a site to be announced. The Shakespeariment will be at the Walt Disney Amphitheater at Lake Eola Park, 101 N. Rosalind Ave., Orlando. Details: 407-792-9421. Twitter of the Shrew: Feb. 14....

Shortly before midnight on Aug. 3, 1958, Lenny Bruce got off an airplane at Midway Airport. No one knows exactly what he did the next day until, at 8 p.m., he walked onto the stage of the Cloister Inn nightclub and said, "I've been thinking a lot about...

few pages into "The Film Club," the smart new memoir by Canadian film critic David Gilmour, it becomes clear that if he ever saw any of MGM's squeaky-clean Andy Hardy movies while growing up, they left little impression on him. It's doubtful that the...

They were still tacking down the hall carpet when the doors opened on this evening for the first performance at The Second City. It all seemed so new and so tentative, even when the audience started applauding the fresh, smart comedy of the cabaret. As...

With both Ben Stiller and the Farrelly Brothers, relativism doesn't enter into the equation. You're either comfortable with their squirmy, wormy species of comedy or you'd just as soon look away until their movies are over. "The Heartbreak Kid," which...

"Mission: Impossible III" may not have been a smash hit this summer, but co-star Michelle Monaghan is making the most of her exposure, piling on upcoming film roles. Monaghan is expected to co-star with Ben Stiller in "Seven Day Itch," a comedy from...

Ben Stiller is in final negotiations to reunite with the Farrellys, the filmmaking siblings who helped make him a star. According to Variety, Still is close to signing on for the lead in "Seven Day Itch," a DreamWorks based remake which isn't,...

My working life in the news business has kept me mostly tethered to Times Square -- geographic home to the Great White Way and naughty, bawdy 42nd Street. There were a bunch of classy restaurants, too. It was a hop, skip and a jump down the back...

Comedian Carol Burnett, Godfather of Soul James Brown, country music legend Loretta Lynn, director Mike Nichols and concert violinist Itzhak Perlman are this year's winners of the prestigious Kennedy Center Honors for their contributions to the performing...

Not long into Act I of the Cape Playhouse story, a determined young woman in a summer dress and heels strides down a rutted, sandy drive toward a churchlike building. It is early summer 1928, and sea gull caws meld with distant hammering. The playhouse's...