Mercedes McCambridge

A movie that cuts closer to the soul of U.S. politics than most of us would like to admit, Robert Rossen's 1949 All the King's Men (TCM at 4 p.m.) follows the tempestuous career of Louisiana Gov. Will Stark (Broderick Crawford), who exploits his...

When James Earl Jones takes the stage as Big Daddy in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," the Broadhurst Theatre fairly trembles. For all the fussin' and flitterin' of Maggie (Anika Noni Rose), Mae (Lisa Arrindell Anderson), Big Mama ( Phylicia Rashad), Gooper (...

The greats of my generation, Robert De Niro, Robert Duvall, Dustin Hoffman, Al Pacino, were character actors. That is, they were, by standards of a previous day, suitable to play in support of a star, but as they were ethnic, or not traditional matinee-...

There's a Tom Petty rockumentary to finish and a possible film project, The Broken Code, about a real-life scientific stink over the secrets of DNA. He appears in the upcoming films The Dukes (with Chazz Palminteri), The Fifth Patient and Humboldt...

From The Times: March 28, 1957 Last night was the hottest in memory, if not in the 29 years, of any to mark the presentation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awards at Pantages Hollywood Theater. When it was over, so many of the guests...

1 star (out of four) The actors are the least of the problems with the new version of "All the King's Men," now calcifying at a theater near you. Watching scene after scene linger and expire in this haplessly faithful version of the 1946 Robert Penn...

"All the King's Men" is a somber film about loss, betrayal and regret. With its emphasis on human frailty, the death of dreams and wasted potential, this celebrated story of the uses and abuses of political and personal power has a strong sense of drama...

The ingredients all seemed to be there for Oscar-winning director-screenwriter Steve Zaillian. He had a cast of heavy hitters -- Sean Penn, Kate Winslet, Jude Law and Anthony Hopkins for starters -- and a classic story in Robert Penn Warren's Pulitzer...

Now that we've crossed the midway point of the year, it's time to start taking stock of the field for the next Academy Awards best picture race. Too early, you say? Not at all. At this point last year, remember, "Crash" had already been starting...

From The Times: Jan. 29, 1974 "I wonder whether the Golden Globes will be as wild as usual," Jim Nabors said as we flew east from Hollywood the day before to the Frank SInatra opening in Las Vegas. We agreed that the annual awards of the Hollywood...

"Johnny Guitar" is one of those classic westerns that has maintained its status by reinventing itself every decade since its release in 1954. Directed by Nicholas Ray ("Rebel Without A Cause"), aficienados labelit a teen opera dressed up in western gear,...

denotes winner Performance by an actor in a leading role Broderick Crawford as Willie Stark in ALL THE KING'S MEN Robert Rossen Productions; Columbia Kirk Douglas as Midge Kelly in CHAMPION Screen Plays Corporation; UA Gregory Peck as General Savage in...