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One Night at the Grand Star visits the 60-year-old restaurant in L.A.'s Chinatown.

The empire Henry Luce envisioned wasn’t just of magazines and books, but of an America not altogether removed from George W. Bush’s.

Four decades after Baba Ram Dass told a generation to “Be here now,” the message is the same but “here” is a very different place.

Oliver Stone has almost as much trouble getting to the essential Castro as he did unearthing the truth about the assassination of JFK.

Still recoiling from Mel Gibson’s open wound of a Christ, we may find solace in the Prince of Peace who rises from an unlikely source: ABC News.

With Deadwood, HBO serves up the kind of Western you’d expect from HBO: chaste as Sex in the City, genteel as The Sopranos.

Yet another remake of Liaisons anticipates a revolution, this time sans guillotines; in a new CBS series, the law looks to the future.

The fifth season of The Sopranos sticks with the tried-and-cruel, while Stephen King checks into the hospital and finds things pretty scary.

John Leonard reviews Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me, Jimmy Scott: If You Only Knew, Beah: A Black Woman Speaks, and more.

John Leonard reviews Crash of Flight 111, Until the Violence Stops, A Place of Our Own, and more.