Gretchen Mol

In spite of its tendency to be rendered down to facile, generally wrong cartoons to protect children’s and patriots’ delicate sensibilities, history poses a filthy canvas. Those who choose to paint on it can hew to its boring conventions, as...

It's Easter 1923 and "Boardwalk Empire" is taking some time out from mob wars and political scandal to spend some time with family. Of course, like any good holiday, Easter is a reminder to most of the families on "Boardwalk" that they are far from...

Although Steve Buscemi took home a SAG award for best actor in a drama series Sunday night -- his second in a row for the role of Nucky Thompson in the HBO show “Boardwalk Empire”-- he still doesn't see himself as a leading man....

• Our pal Pete Hammond caught an early screening of "The Social Network" and thinks this "is Sony’s best shot at Best Picture in years, a lock for Golden Globe and Critics Choice Awards. And most importantly, Oscar nominations in every major...

The title of the second episode of "Boardwalk Empire," "The Ivory Tower," comes from a novel of the same name by Henry James, which Margaret reads in her hospital bed. The book, unfinished due to James' death but highly praised......

At the "Mildred Pierce" miniseries premiere in New York on Monday, Guy Pearce, Kate Winslet, Melissa Leo, Evan Rachel Wood and others from the cast of the Todd Haynes-directed HBO miniseries walked the red carpet....

In the Greenpoint neighborhood of Brooklyn, N.Y., HBO and executive producers Terence Winter ("The Sopranos") and Martin Scorsese have brought a 300-foot section of the Atlantic City (N.J.) Boardwalk, circa 1920, back to three-dimensional life, for the...

“Boardwalk Empire,” a drama series produced by Martin Scorsese, will debut Sept. 19 on HBO. That will be the night to watch because Scorsese directed the pilot. Terence Winter, an Emmy-winning writer for “The Sopranos,” created the...

THE first film by Maria Maggenti, "The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love," turned the writer-director's own blushing, youthful romantic interlude into a tender, comedic tale. With her second feature, "Puccini for Beginners," Maggenti again...

Bisexuality certainly increases the geometric possibilities of the romantic comedy, completing its triangles and allowing for quadrangles and other, more amorphous layers of amorous involvement. The primary vertex of "Puccini for Beginners," writer-...

Bettie Page was neither the alpha nor the omega of pinup posing, she didn't do it first or last, but no one before or since has brought the same kind of incandescent delight to the job of being photographed in bathing suits, bondage apparatus or nothing...

Sure, Jennifer Aniston took a nude walk through an apartment building, but it was Salma Hayek's covorting in the water with Colin Farrell that won Mr. Skin's love for 2006. As people start bundling up as the mercury drops, Mr. Skin has compiled his Top...