Harris Yulin

On the nervous, much-photographed movie set of "The Misfits," Henri Cartier-Bresson took a picture of Arthur Miller scrunched in a director's chair. In the picture, just behind the writer, Miller's then-wife Marilyn Monroe is receiving advice from her...

Wednesday July 17, 1996      When Walt Whitman wrote, "I am large, I contain multitudes," he didn't realize he was also pitching the concept for "Multiplicity."      And when Doug Kinney, harried and harassed by the demands of being a husband, father...

Friday October 25, 1996      Stars are the spoiled children of the movie business. We vote for them for president, give them Academy Awards for directing, applaud their every mood and move. Our reward, as far as Al Pacino is concerned, is films like...

Wednesday April 12, 1995       Al Franken is good enough, he's certainly smart enough. So, doggone it, why is "Stuart Saves His Family" so mediocre?      On "Saturday Night Live," Franken's Stuart Smalley is a hilarious concoction: a "caring nurturer"...