John Milton

Feb. 21, 1961: The choice of which Mercury astronaut will be the first launched into space narrows to Marine Lt. Col. John H. Glenn Jr., Air Force Capt. Virgil L. Grissom and Navy Cmdr. Alan B. Shepard Jr. Herman Abrams'......

A little respect, if you please, for His Satanic Majesty Nicolas Cage. Nobody goes off the deep end like Nic. Nobody gives better value in bad movies than the sleepy-eyed Oscar winner with a gift for picking bad movies. “Drive Angry” is a very...

A look ahead at the spring season in performance and dance. Lemi Ponifasio/MAU The Samoan-born, New Zealand-based choreographer and theater artist pays homage to Shakespeare and explores more contemporary ideas about personal freedom and political tyranny...

Alex Proyas is still most famous for a movie he did 20 years ago, “The Crow.” But that comic book adaptation's bleak vision and dark tone stick with you, almost as much as the knowledge that Brandon Lee died on a set Proyas was in charge of....

Critic Debra Levine reviews Mark Morris Dance Group's "L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato" at the Music Center....

Bradly Cooper may star in a film version of John Milton's 17th century epic poem Paradise Lost....

Author and scholar Reynolds Price died Thursday in North Carolina; he had suffered a heart attack on Sunday. Price was 77. Price was born in North Carolina and, after taking time away in college, he made it his home. He......

Here are some coming attractions, arts-on-the-tube fans –- all on PBS, which is more or less the last bastion for this sort of thing. This month, the “Great Performances” series produced by New York City’s WNET will roll out the......

Sometimes inspiration comes in the unlikeliest places. While vacationing in Puerto Vallarta in fall 2008, USC professor Deborah Harkness, a historian of science, was consumed with the upcoming bicentenary of Charles Darwin's birth, but the rest of the...

"Woodrow Wilson: A Biography" By John Milton Cooper, Jr. Random House, 702 pages, $35 President Woodrow Wilson, a confidant confided in his diary shortly after World War I, "will probably go down in history as the greatest figure of his time, and I hope,...

"Woodrow Wilson: A Biography" By John Milton Cooper, Jr. andom House, 2009, 702 pages, $35 President Woodrow Wilson, a confidant confided in his diary shortly after World War I, "will probably go down in history as the greatest figure of his time, and I...

Forest Lawn doesn’t want Caryl Chessman’s ashes! May 4, 1960: John Milton Addison is a spellbinder without peer. He’s a millionaire who claims he isn’t selling anything but himself, Paul Coates says....