Tammy Grimes

Jan Maxwell earned two Tony Award nominations Tuesday for her leading performance in "The Royal Family" and her featured turn in "Lend Me a Tenor." Both of these comedies are contenders for the best play revival award. One of Maxwell's rivals in the...

Harve Presnell, the commanding baritone who starred in such Broadway musicals as "The Unsinkable Molly Brown" and "Annie," died of pancreatic cancer Tuesday at St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica, according to his agent, Gregg Klein. The actor was...

Friday June 12, 1998      I don't know about art, but people are definitely high in Lisa Cholodenko's arrestingly ambitious "High Art," a movie populated by characters who keep themselves so stoned on heroin they seem to be in a perpetual state of slow-...

Washington's critics may not be particularly fond of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton and their "Private Lives," but the people , members of the opening-night audience, seemed to like what they saw, enough to give the pair a standing ovation. They...

Friday September 13, 1996      Having it all is an admirable aspiration, to be sure, but at a time when plenty of people would be content to have some, it isn't a theme that tends to send wildly positive impulses to the sympathy gland. And when a movie...