Michael Kilian

Those of us who love France no matter what will rejoice that the A&E cable network has sufficient sangfroid to take on churlish Francophobic chowder heads on Capitol Hill and...

The emphasis of the air war is shifting from attacks on strategic targets to more ground-support missions against Iraqi troops massed outside Baghdad or entrenched along the U.S. invasion route,...

Now that Nicole Kidman has won an Oscar for her earnest portrayal of doomed author Virginia Woolf in this year's literary feminist heart-wringer "The Hours," she can turn right around...

The sand blew in on winds of more than 50 miles an hour, whirling into soldiers' faces and clogging their throats with a fine layer of grit. Their goggles clouded,...

Leonardo da Vinci's art is grotesque. Which is to say, some of it is. Certainly not all, or even most. The preponderance of his paintings and drawings have few if...

An Oscar nomination usually means a big bounce for a movie career. Veteran British actor Tom Wilkinson had every right to expect a lot of doors to be opening for...

He has been dead since 1938, but Ernst Kirchner seems very much an artist for our times. The capital's National Gallery of Art has just opened a major exhibition of...

Oak Park's own Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio has come home -- not to Oak Park, but to Broadway, where she hasn't been seen for 21 years. Winning splendid reviews, she's starring...

The great Irish contribution to the world is not whiskey or ale, green landscapes, sweaters or politics. It is words. Be they in novels, poems, some of the greatest plays...

If he weren't such a great actor, Stephen Lang might be a movie star by now. He is starring now as Stonewall Jackson in the Civil War epic "Gods and...