Joseph L Mankiewicz

The obituaries written after the death of Charlton Heston in April suggested a man whose public and private images were virtually indistinguishable. Discussing his acting, almost all the press played the same note. USA Today's Mike Clark said Heston was...

Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch (2 p.m., AMC), the story of a band of outlaws looking to make one last grand stand, brought to the screen a Western like no one had seen before. Violent and dirty, with heroes whose distinctions between good and evil...

Move over Ebert and Roeper. Here come the two Bens. Ben Lyons of E! Entertainment Television and Ben Mankiewicz of Turner Classic Movies today were named co-hosts of what was described as "the new generation" of "At the Movies" by the Walt Disney Co.'s...

"A bad penny always turns up" is a platitude that packs an unexpected existential punch, at least in the sardonic world of New York playwright Mac Wellman. In Wellman's Obie Award-winning short play, the titular "Bad Penny" opens a portal to the...

(B) One would imagine it is something of a bittersweet triumph for an actor to endure long enough to revisit a glory moment from his youth, albeit from the vantage point of an older character. Unlike many of his classically schooled contemporaries in...

One would imagine it is something of a bittersweet triumph for an actor to endure long enough to revisit a glory moment from his youth, albeit from the vantage point of an older character. Unlike many of his classically schooled contemporaries in England,...

Remaking "Sleuth" seems unnecessary, really. Anthony Shaffer's endlessly circulated stage thriller was filmed in 1972 by Joseph L. Mankiewicz in a prestige project featuring Laurence Olivier as the mystery writer and Michael Caine as the hairdresser who...

Jude Law, who starred in the "Alfie" remake, will take on another of Michael Caine's previous film roles, this time teamed with Caine himself. The British actors have signed on to star in Kenneth Branagh's remake of the 1970s thriller "Sleuth." The...

Julius J. & Philip G. Epstein and Howard Koch's "Casablanca" script, adapted from the play "Everybody Comes to Rick's" by Murray Burnett and Joan Alison, has been saluted as the greatest screenplay ever by the members of the Writers Guild of America. The...

What do you think of the WGA list? ++++++++++++++++++++ || 1. || CASABLANCA Screenplay by Julius J. & Philip G. Epstein and Howard Koch. Based on the play "Everybody Comes to Rick's" by Murray Burnett and Joan Alison || || 2. || THE GODFATHER...

Nobody writes songs about January in Paris. It's cold and bleak, and the impenetrable rain clouds make 8 a.m. as dark as midnight. It's perfect weather for going to the movies, which is what I do. But I also go to the movies in Paris in April, May and...

Marlon Brando, a two-time Oscar winner whose riveting performances transformed acting from a remote craft to a naturalistic art form, has died, the Associated Press announced today. He was 80. An actor's actor whose skill was envied by generations of...