Linda Hunt

(C) For Estonians, the Laulupidu (song festival) held every five years is more than a cultural mecca for thousands: It's a chance to honor how a populace in unison often held this oppressed nation together over decades of Soviet rule and eventually...

The state is expanding its audit of the troubled local-government investment fund to include Florida's mammoth $137 billion pension fund -- which bought some of the same downgraded mortgage-backed securities. On Wednesday, Florida Department of...

In a just universe, perhaps we'd have been celebrating Stranger than Fiction during Sunday's Oscars. Willfully eccentric, odd in tone, it is an English major's comedy, a wry exploration of plot, narrative, character and a writer's imprint on her or his...

COUNTY OF SUFFOLK Department of Social Services Janet DeMarzo, Commissioner Edward Hernandez, Deputy Commissioner, Task Force Chairperson SUFFOLK COUNTY TASK FORCE ON HOMELESS SEX OFFENDERS: FINAL REPORT, January, 2005 Registered homeless sex...

1½ stars (out of four) In a universe that contains "Cheaper by the Dozen" (and soon, "Cheaper by the Dozen 2"), do we really need another remake about supersize families wreaking havoc and rattling the sanity of their parents? According to the four...

In "Dragonfly," a souped-up romantic tale of longing for contact beyond the grave, we're told that the Doctors Darrow (Kevin Costner and Susanna Thompson) are the perfect team--he has the head and she supplies the heart. Both work at the same Chicago...

Kevin Costner is an actor who likes to play obsessed characters, people who see things the rest of the world misses - like the maverick soldier in "Dances With Wolves" or conspiracy theorist Jim Garrison in "JFK" - and in "Dragonfly" he has a doozy. In...

Friday January 10, 1997      If you can buy Penelope Ann Miller as a doctor of evolutionary biology, you can buy just about anything, and that certainly includes the fusion of genetics and voodoo behind "The Relic." But Peter Hyams' film isn't about...

Friday May 22, 1998      It is sometimes difficult, and perhaps even wrongheaded, to cling to normal critical standards when judging documentaries. The complex force of something real can be overpowering, even when the best that can be said is that the...

Friday June 16, 1995      Disney animation is one of the wonders of the modern movie age. Whether it is the magic of making drawings move or the emotional link the films have to childhoods past, there is something perennially enchanting about the...

Think L.A. is the only place you can get that tingly deja vu feeling in a dark movie theater when a familiar place pops up on the screen? Think again. Chicago is one of the great American "location" cities. With its grand vistas, energetic urban air and...

denotes winner Performance by an actor in a leading role Michael Caine as Dr. Frank Bryant in EDUCATING RITA Acorn Pictures Limited Production; Columbia Tom Conti as Gowan McGland in REUBEN, REUBEN Saltair/Walter Shenson Production presented by The...