Michael Kilian

The Oscar telecasts notwithstanding, one must concede that actors are the most effective public speakers we have. The stellar public career of an actor named Ronald Reagan is certainly testament...

I am sure that no one who visited the ground zero site of what was once the World Trade Center has forgotten it, or ever will. Still vivid in my...

When you stop to think about it, Mandy Moore, Stevie Wonder and Kristin Chenoweth probably are a lot more fun than the National Security Council and the Joint Chiefs of...

There is more to life than movie stardom, and there is more to a comeback than applause. In the 1980s, Kelly McGillis was every inch a star. Three pictures --...

Imagine being able to enjoy, in the very same evening, both Russia's famed Kirov Ballet performing an opulent production of Tchaikovsky's "Sleeping Beauty" and the legendary Rudolf Nureyev at his...

The power of women -- however much it terrified the obsessively macho likes of Ernest Hemingway -- is a subject that has long been enthusiastically embraced by artists. "Women Who...

Where Steven Spielberg and actor Djimon Hounsou failed, Hounsou, director Guy Deslauriers and novelist Walter Mosley have succeeded. They have managed in a 1-hour-and-20-minute film to make real and comprehensible...

With the terrorist attacks having made the nation's capital about as popular a tourist destination as Rantoul, Ill., and overall attendance at the Smithsonian Institution down nearly 10 percent because...

First Lady Laura Bush passed into history this week. Actually, it was just her dress that she passed, the hot red number she wore to her husband's inaugural balls last...

U.S. officials said the American military helicopter that slammed into a mountainside Sunday apparently crashed because of a mechanical problem and not because of enemy fire. Two Marines on board...