Michael Kilian

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld ran into stiff congressional opposition Thursday to his plan to kill the Army's controversial Crusader artillery system as he pleaded his case in a grueling, four-hour...

When I last interviewed the great English actor Michael Gambon six years ago -- he was in New York starring in the hit London play "Skylight" -- he talked about...

In a day and age when the unlikely likes of a Michael Bloomberg would spend $75.5 million to make himself mayor of New York, it probably isn't altogether shocking to...

One of the leading lights of the early 20th Century Harlem Renaissance, playwright Zora Neale Hurston died penniless and in near obscurity in 1960, her once-celebrated novels and plays about...

Nowadays, one would be extremely hard put to give any kind of answer to the question, "Who is the greatest man in the world?" But when I was a teenager...

There's no realism like Surrealism -- especially when it comes to that most pervasive and compelling of realities, sex. As we're talking about a major Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibition,...

A mucky shantytown slum on the outskirts of Lima, Peru, built on an ancient Inca cemetery, has yielded an immense treasure trove of 2,200 Inca mummies predating Columbus' discovery of...

You could call it a Nero Wolfe sort of mystery. At least 10 of the female characters that the great detective has had to deal with in the first season...

How did you spend the last five minutes? Shouting at the children? Sipping coffee and staring at the wall? Scratching your dog's ears and wondering why you keep forgetting to...

Everyone has a dream. Ernest Shackleton wanted to go to the South Pole. Al Gore wanted to become president. Pamela Anderson may very well have wanted to become a great...