Michael Kilian

Imagine a movie that's one part impassioned homage to the legendary Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman, one part satirical attack on the late Spanish dictator Francisco Franco, one part intimate telling...

You may think Bruce Willis has the most supreme cool of any actor extant. Or possibly that Ving Rhames does in his guise as television's new "Kojak." But, though you...

She was less well known in the Anglo world than should have been the case, but, in all the lands and shores ever touched by Afro-Caribbean music, Celia Cruz was...

The movie musical is not dead. It's just become shorter, hipper, cheaper and unbelievably quicker to make. In a word -- and a rather strange one it is -- it's...

You would hardly know the man was German. The versatile and prolific artist Max Ernst (1891-1976), the subject of a just-opened major retrospective exhibition at New York's Metropolitan Museum of...

Not counting his "other women," Franklin Delano Roosevelt kept two remarkable secrets through much of his long public life. As we know now, one -- remarkable because he was able...

The French have invaded our nation's capital! It may seem treason, but I for one am welcoming them with open arms. Hereusement, I am not alone. Thousands of Washingtonians and...

Your family tree may look quite a bit different from you thought it did. Which is to say, you might well be related to the queen of England--but through a...

No one ever said a little decadence couldn't be fun. Certainly no one having anything to do with Montmartre ever said that. This fabled hilltop Parisian district has long been...

Can a Genuine German Electro Galvanic Belt really "positively cure" liver, stomach and kidney diseases; diseases of the blood, catarrh, skin diseases, lung troubles, rheumatism, female complaints, paralysis and nervous...