George Kennedy

If no programs or personnel are cut and state aid doesn't increase, residents will likely be facing a tax hike of about 7 percent in fiscal year 2009-10. The town council and school board will host a community summit Jan. 28 to begin identifying which...

If you don't have any New Year's Eve parties to attend, or you need a good excuse to decline an invitation - "Oh, I'd love to, but we have tickets for..." - here are some ways to spend the last hours of 2008 while staying close to home. For families...

The local taxpayers' group — known for opposing budgets and confronting officials — wants to attract new members, bulk up on expert advice about how to run a municipality and work more closely and productively with town and school leaders. Is...

You think of Paul Newman, and you smile. You think of his smile and you smile even wider. It was the last great movie star grin. It seems that way today, anyway, in the wake of Newman's death. He was a rogue you could trust. Across a full panoply of...

Paul Newman, that pure and concentrated essence of classic movie stardom, reinvented himself a couple of times in the span of his long career, until he ended up playing the kind of guy he might have become had he never left his native Shaker Heights,...

Yup, that's the big important date to remember, when TCM will devote its full Sunday schedule to Paul Newman classics, including ...Cool Hand Luke (1967), Somebody up There Likes Me (1956), Torn Curtain (1966), Exodus (1960), Hud (1963), and......

Americans usually celebrate the likes of George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin D. Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy on President's Day. But rarely are the less stellar commanders in chief ever mentioned, such as William Henry Harrison -- who caught a...

Stuart Rosenberg, the director of the original "Amityvill Horror" and "Cool Hand Luke," has died at the age 79. The director of films and series television died of a heart attack Thursday, March 15 in his Beverly Hills home, report news sources....

Action impresario Joel Silver is set to produce a remake of "The Dirty Dozen" for Warner Bros. According to Variety, the new "Dozen" will be financed through Warners and Village Roadshow Pictures with Silver producing along with Susan Downey. Scott...

"Don't Come Knocking" opens with a bandit mask view of blue sky and fluffy white clouds where the eyes should be. A reverse shot reveals it to be a panoramic vista of rocks near Moab, Utah, with Sam Shepard on horseback high-tailing it from somewhere or...

Big question: Actor Howard Spence (Sam Shepard) blows off filming his latest Western to reunite with his mom (Eva Marie Saint), find a lost love (Jessica Lange) and look for the son (Gabriel Mann) he never knew. Is this just "Broken Flowers" in cowboy...

3 stars (out of four) In Wim Wenders' "Don't Come Knocking," writer-star Sam Shepard plays Howard Spence, a movie actor who looks physically fit and a bit dissolute at the same time -- suggesting part of the mystery and magic of movie stardom. Spence...