Michael Kilian

John Wayne, as memory serves, never played Nintendo. But, if he were still around and making more war movies, he'd probably have to learn. I recently had a peek at...

When gazing upon the fractured skull of a man who had an iron rod shot through his brain, it's always nice to have Anjelica Huston for company. The skull (actually...

First Lady Laura Bush joined Librarian of Congress James Billington and Milwaukee Bucks star Ray Allen at the Library of Congress on Monday to announce the country's first National Book...

I am having a drink in a sidewalk cafe with British Royal Ballet star Deborah Bull while we watch the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts burn down across the...

Standing for hours beneath a sweltering sun in a farm field here the other day, I found myself watching some of the worst acting I've seen since Sylvester Stallone's last...

Stand back, here comes the next big British Hollywood star. Maybe. Her name is Anna Friel. She's 25 years old Thursday. Her beauty is such the staid London Times called...

Among the more astounding events of the capital silly season was the announcement that the National Building Museum was giving its prestigious annual Honor Award for "the enhancement of American...

Kilroy, I'm happy to say, is here -- again. The nation is strangely awash in patriotic fervor over World War II. Posturing themselves as spokesmen for that era's G.I.s --...

With the Party of Lincoln having become so conservative and so Southern as to resemble the Party of Jefferson Davis, it was quite astonishing the other night to discover that...

I am sitting on a bench overlooking the Brandywine River in a setting that belongs in an Andrew or Jamie Wyeth painting, if it hasn't already been put in one....