John Irving

If you don't think Rob Lowe enjoys this time of year, consider how often he turns up during the holidays. Besides seasonal episodes of "The West Wing" and ABC's "Brothers & Sisters," which he recently joined, the actor appeared in the 2002 TV movie...

Author J.K. Rowling was no closer to revealing the fate of the boy wizard Harry Potter at a reading at Radio City Music Hall in New York, but instead made comments about the seventh and final book in the series that will worry readers even more. "Some...

This morning's Variety has what I believe to be one of the more exhaustive discussions of "Mad Men" I've seen, and the guy doing the discussing is none other than creator Matthew Weiner. I could send you to Variety,......

Friday September 11, 1998      The sap is flowing early this year in fictional Gravestown, Maine, the primary setting of John Irving's complex novel "A Prayer for Owen Meany" and for filmmaker Mark Steven Johnson's simple "Simon Birch," a syrupy...

Friday December 10, 1999      "The Cider House Rules," Lasse Hallstrom's superb film adaptation of the acclaimed John Irving novel of the same name, takes its title from a short, typed list posted on the wall of an old building on a New England apple...

Jeff BRIDGES has long been one of the greats of American film acting. But because his greatness comes under the deep cover of his characters and with an absence of self-aggrandizement, and because he makes relatively few movies these days, the actor's...

Tomorrow - The Agronomist: Jonathan Demme, keeping his hand in documentaries and pursuing his fascination with Haiti (previously reflected in a CD compilation of Haitian music), tells the story of the volatile Caribbean nation through the dissident...

Surely it must be easier, one could assume, to make a movie from a book or play than to have to come up with an original story, but talk to filmmakers who've done both and you will hear otherwise. "To me, writing an adaptation is just as hard as writing...