“Prosperity is back,” beamed Paramount chairman Adolph Zukor in 1922, noting that the previous year nearly dealt a “mortal blow” to motion pictures. The industry had weathered a storm of growing public […]

From 1964 to 1969, as the war in Vietnam escalated and the weekly body count kept pace with the uptick, one of the most popular shows on network television was […]

As the controversy over Jimmy Kimmel’s temporary time-out from talk show hosting played out last September, Jane Fonda announced that she was reviving the Committee for the First Amendment to […]

In the if-these-walls-could-talk sweepstakes, the Ed Sullivan Theater might never shut up. Built in 1927, located at 1697-1699 Broadway between 53rd and 54th Streets, and in more or less continuing operation […]