Harpo Marx

Bernie Mac blended style, authority and a touch of self-aware bluster to make audiences laugh as well as connect with him. For Mac, who died yesterday at age 50, it was a winning mix, delivering him from a poor childhood to stardom as a standup comedian,...

As I write this mash note to the Algonquin, the clubby enclave with the most storied literary history of any Manhattan hotel, the resident cat, Matilda, is lounging on one of the bell carts near the front desk. I'm sitting a few yards away, with my laptop...

A comedy about kids that was not made for kids but was not not made for kids, "Square Pegs" premiered on CBS in the fall of 1982; a quarter of a century later, it has come to DVD in its surprisingly modest, 19-episode entirety. But 9 1/2 hours is time...

JAMESTOWN, N.Y.—On the weekend before Memorial Day, this will be ground zero for Lucy madness. Lucille Ball was the first woman to head a major Hollywood studio (Desilu), but it's the bird-brained redhead she played on TV in the '50s that made...

San Simeon, Calif. It doesn't take long, wandering behind the scenes among the 38 bedrooms and 41 bathrooms (not counting those in the guest quarters next door), to sense a few differences between your house and Hearst Castle. The museum accreditation,...

I've never had the urge to switch the TV channel to NASCAR races, but I was at the Keating, San Diego's new high-concept hotel, and needed to hear the roar of engines to complete the experience. The 5-month-old Keating, in a historic building in...

There's only so much eye-rolling the average human head can tolerate. And "In the Land of Women" exhausts that limit. Not so much a film as a science experiment testing an audience's tolerance for clichés, this tedious and ill-conceived project unfolds...

1½ stars (out of four) Long after you and I are gone, the Adam Sandler debate will still be raging, like one of Sandler's own on-screen tantrums. Is he a one-shtick pony or a real actor with the long-haul goods? As with many polarized debates the...

Like one of his on-screen tantrums, the Adam Sandler debate seems to go on forever. Is he a one-shtick pony, or a real actor with the long-haul goods? As with many polarized arguments the answer isn't A or B, but C, meaning: "Both," or "Both —...

What to Expect: This West Side neighborhood is dotted with shiny new condos and happening restaurants but still retains some of the grit that recalls its rough and tumble past. Hell's Kitchen got its name from a local gang that ran its tenement-lined...

The sycamore that guards the 12th green at Riviera Country Club? That's where Humphrey Bogart used to sit with a trench coat and a thermos -- contents undetermined -- to watch players go by. Some people still refer to the spot as "Bogart's tree," so with...

 (PG-13). There's a lady who's sure/All that glitters is Black: Jack Black that is, the manic star of this Rick Linklater comedy about a rocker who has outlived his shelf live and masquerades as a prep school teacher. No professional wrestling is...