Oliver Hardy

"It's a Wonderful Life," "White Christmas," "Miracle on 34th Street," and "A Christmas Story" quickly come to mind when lists of the most popular holiday films are mentioned. So, too, "A Charlie Brown Christmas," "Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer" and "How...

You can't cheat death. So you might as well face it as a smart shopper. Planning a funeral used to fall almost entirely to funeral homes, which guided bereaved loved ones into standardized deals that might have included services or items the dearly...

Does Eddie Murphy know how good he is as the soulful R&B singer James "Thunder" Early in "Dreamgirls"? Playing a shimmying satyr on the skids, he seems almost aghast at his prowess. It's the performance of his career — a great performance. He has...

The secret of the great clowns is delicacy: The bigger they are, the lighter they tread. Think of Oliver Hardy's simmering slow burn, or the ironic quietude that makes Jack Black's madman frenzies all the sharper. Dan Fogler is a proud heir to this fine-...

Had the Academy Awards people asked, Jon Stewart would have told them how many films he's seen this year in a theater: "One," says the host of this year's Oscars broadcast. That would be "The 40 Year-Old Virgin," written by and starring Steve Carell, a...

What happens in Augusta, Ga., when the Masters Tournament is over? You know, after the coveted Green Jacket has been properly tailored for its new owner, after the television crews and golf writers pack it all in and hightail it down the road for the next...

Johnny Carson, who in three decades as host of "The Tonight Show" became one of America's most influential entertainers as well as one of television's most powerful figures, died Sunday. He was 79. His nephew, Jeff Sotzing, a former producer of "The...

(PG-13) The comically fractious spirit of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy hovers over "Two Men Went to War," a tall-but-true tale from the seemingly inexhaustible annals of World War II. The eponymous stalwarts of this dippy little English film are two...

Art Carney, who won a best actor Oscar for "Harry and Tonto" and originated the role of fussy Felix Unger in "The Odd Couple" on Broadway, but who is best remembered as Jackie Gleason's lovable sewer worker pal Ed Norton on "The Honeymooners," has died....

Even though Los Angeles has been the center of movie making for most of a century, you wouldn't always know it to look at the movies. Elaborate sets, sound stages and backdrops could transform Los Angeles into any place in the world. That Welsh mining...

Adam and Eve. Romulus and Remus. Romeo and Juliet. Tippecanoe and Tyler, too. Sears and Roebuck. Hard to think of one without the other, isn't it? Is there a chance future generations will think of Brad Pitt and Julia Roberts, stars of "The Mexican,"...

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