Ernie Kovacs

It's word association time. Say the first word that springs to mind: "holiday ----." Did you think "season"? "Sale"? "Hangover"? How about "music?" This year, there are plenty of new holiday albums to pick from. Cee Lo Green, English pop-rocker Tracey...

Kate MacCluggage, who was last featured in the ensemble cast of Long Wharf Theatre's "It's a Wonderful Life," will play Gillian, the bewitching witch, in the the romantic comedy "Bell, Book and Candle," a co-production with Long Wharf and Hartford Stage....

One of the most irreverent television comedy stars of his time, Kovacs displays his famously unconventional style in several programs he made shortly before his death. His unique approach even extended to the commercials on the shows, originally...

"Laurel & Hardy: The Essential Collection"/"The Ernie Kovacs Collection": Genuine humor is hard to come by these days, so it's a good thing that some of the funniest people of the past are reappearing on DVD collections, writes Los Angeles Times film...

"A Separation": Don't wait too long to see "A Separation," an exceptional film from Iran. If you care enough about foreign language films to have heard about this particular gem, don't hold back until all your friends have told you how good it is and...

"The Rolling Stones on the Ed Sullivan Show," "The Grateful Dead Movie," "Aki Kaurismaki's Leningrad Cowboys" prove that DVDs are not just for stories, they can capture and convey all manner of musical performance....

Buster Keaton: New DVD releases allow viewers to look at all aspects of Buster Keaton's filmmaking career, even the lesser-known ones....

"The Andy Hardy Collection" and Warner Bros. pre-Code films: Hollywood was not a one-size-fits-all entity in its glory days; movies catered to the widest variety of tastes, as two new groups of DVD releases featuring Andy Hardy and pre-Code frolics...

New boxed sets look at the careers of Pola Negri, Jean Harlow and Jean Arthur -- three actresses who deserve to be better known....

David C. Nichols reviews 'Hamlet, Prince of Darkness' at Zombie Joe's Underground...

Ramon Vinay, the tenor cast with Birgit Nilsson in "Tristan," said he was too ill to do the entire opera, so Rudolph Bing had Vinay sing Act I, Karl Liebel (likewise under the weather) sing Act II and Albert da Costa (also ill) sing Act III. Hedda...

Irving Brecher, a comedy writer whose career in radio, television and the movies included writing two Marx Brothers comedies, co-writing the Judy Garland musical "Meet Me in St. Louis" and creating the radio and TV series "The Life of Riley," has died. He...