Can James Franco write? Yes, but …
The actor's new collection, "Palo Alto," shows promise -- and an undeveloped obsession with youth and violence
Tuesday, Oct 19, 2010 1:01 AM UTC 12Entertainment James Franco, Fiction, Books
The actor's new collection, "Palo Alto," shows promise -- and an undeveloped obsession with youth and violence
Tuesday, Oct 19, 2010 1:01 AM UTC 12I always thought I'd be a rational father. But seeing a child in danger drives me over the edge
Saturday, Aug 28, 2010 6:01 PM UTC 72Even as a gay man, I couldn't find joy or fun in last night's monument to wax figurines and Donald Trump
Tuesday, Aug 24, 2010 1:23 PM UTC 18The film legend and memoirist on his fight for a Manson family member and why reality TV is the worst kind of bad
Sunday, Jun 6, 2010 5:01 PM UTC 28As studies shed doubt on certain psychiatric drugs, I wonder: Do I really need my little white pill?
Monday, Apr 5, 2010 11:01 AM UTC 73"20/20" turns ex-aide Andrew Young's confessional into a hoary Victorian melodrama with a sex-tape finale
Saturday, Jan 30, 2010 1:30 PM UTC 56Forget Patrick Stewart, Alastair Sim and (please!) Jim Carrey. Nobody gets Dickens like George C. Scott
Friday, Dec 25, 2009 1:45 AM UTC 96The tennis star's legal woes remind us that even gay icons have some growing up to do about same-sex marriage
Monday, Jun 29, 2009 10:27 AM UTC 158Bill Gates and the Beatles owe their genius to nurture not nature, argues the acclaimed "Tipping Point" author. It's a nice theory.
Monday, Nov 17, 2008 11:58 AM UTC 41De Palma's '80s cult classic is trash, many scoff. But the lowdown, seedy movie with Al Pacino as a Cuban thug influenced pop culture from gangsta rap to "Miami Vice."
Thursday, Nov 13, 2008 11:59 AM UTC 66What does it look like to have an African-American in the White House? Pop culture has offered versions awful and great, from Sammy Davis Jr. to Chris Rock.
Monday, Nov 3, 2008 10:30 AM UTC 17Margaret Atwood talks about the perils of debt -- and imagines a utopian future without greed.
Tuesday, Oct 28, 2008 11:15 AM UTC 31Imagine a land where presidents don't sprinkle holy water on wars, citizens have good healthcare and governments care about the environment.
Wednesday, Oct 22, 2008 10:30 AM UTC 289Bootlegging brothers, get-rich-quick schemes and a sensational murder trial make "The Wettest County in the World" a riveting read.
Wednesday, Oct 8, 2008 10:56 AM UTCFrom miracle diets to creationism to rumors about the origins of 9/11, a new book traces our irrational love of misinformation.
Thursday, Oct 2, 2008 10:30 AM UTC 128In his affecting new book, Roth's young hero abandons his Jewish upbringing for life in small town Ohio.
Tuesday, Sep 16, 2008 10:37 AM UTC 15Peter Trachtenberg took a tour around the world in his quest to understand why some people are crushed by suffering and others are transformed by it.
Friday, Sep 5, 2008 10:40 AM UTC 26Can great art spring from a lie? Two new books about forgers raise provocative questions about the links between authenticity and genius.
Thursday, Aug 14, 2008 10:25 AM UTC 20As a kid, "The Wild Wild West" taught me about sexiness and desire -- and how two men could live together and love each other.
Tuesday, Aug 12, 2008 10:15 AM UTC 80In further chronicles of Bush government deceit, author Ron Suskind drops a bombshell: The White House ordered the CIA to fake a letter linking Saddam Hussein to al-Qaida.
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