Glynis Johns

Sad news: Burry Fredrik, a Tony Award--winning producer and director over five decades died in her home in Weston May 22. Cause of death was complications from a stroke she suffered two years ago, She was 86. She co-produced Tom Stoppard’s “...

With Christmas falling on a Saturday this year, there's one last full week -- well, almost -- before St. Nick makes his annual rounds. Thanks to television, DVD and Blu-ray, there also are chances to give yourself some extra holiday cheer with movies...

Stephen Sondheim's "A Little Night Music" is one of the composer's most beloved musicals, and it contains what is perhaps the most famous song he has ever written -- "Send in the Clowns." A melancholy aria about longing and middle-age......

Friday October 8, 1999      The funniest moment on the recent "Saturday Night Live" anniversary show belonged to comedian Chris Rock. Wow, he said, 25 years. Four of 'em funny. He then made the nervy if not particularly novel observation that "SNL"...

Friday October 15, 1999      Harmony Korine's "julien donkey-boy," a film of piercing beauty and pain, takes its title from a thin, intense schizophrenic of perhaps 20. In a prologue that reverberates throughout the film Julien (Ewen Bremner) comes...

Friday October 15, 1999      Cedric Kahn's relentless "L'Ennui" is such a rigorous exploration of sexual obsession that it proves to be a most demanding film. Virtually devoid of eroticism and sensuality, it depicts with the utmost realism a 17-year-...

Friday April 21, 1995      The amiable, methodically inoffensive "While You Were Sleeping" opens with a woman's honey-colored childhood memories of her deceased father but, even when the memories have faded into the present day, the honey continues to...