Steven Spielberg

Lineup announced for 2013-14 Baltimore Speakers Series

2013-03-20 08:10:00

Humorist Dave Barry, historian Doris Kearns Goodwin and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak are among those taking part in the 2013-2014 Baltimore Speakers Series. The seven-speaker series, sponsored by Stevenson University, kicks off Sept. 30 with author...

The contradiction of Lincoln

2012-11-25 03:00:00

He had lost a son many years before, the boy barely more than a toddler when he died. Now another son was dead, and grief sat on him like the shawl that draped his shoulders as he rattled around the big, cold house. His wife was emotionally troubled and...

A spiritual to mark the 150th anniversary of Emancipation Proclamation

2013-01-01 07:37:00

On New Year's Day, 150 years ago, American history was forever changed when Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. As we all know too well, that document alone did not free any slaves, but it was a crucial step that made clear the...

E-book for fans of Lincoln movie

2013-01-02 12:00:00

I don't know about you, but watching the movie "Lincoln" sent me to the bookshelf and Internet to learn more about political wrangling over the adopition of the 13th Amendment. The movie was a great political science lesson, but it was obvious that...

What would Lincoln do?

2012-11-29 03:00:00

++++++++++++++++++++ || � || || � || ++++++++++++++++++++ In the rest of the country, it may be just another movie, but in Washington, Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln" has become a political Rorschach test. It seems as if every pundit in the capital...

Life of Pi movie reviews

2012-11-23 10:00:00

This holiday season may be the greatest ever for book adaptations, and this week, we have a visual stunner: "Life of Pi," Ang Lee's take on the best-selling Yann Martel novel. Among the other big adaptations is "Lincoln," the Steven Spielberg movie that...

Mr. Lincoln and the press

2012-11-03 08:22:00

Yesterday my worthy colleague Phillip Blanchard posted this opening from a New York Times article on Daniel Day-Lewis and his portrayal of Abraham Lincoln in the new Steven Spielberg film about Lincoln's last days: “NOW he belongs to the ages,&...

'The Color Purple' will not leave you feeling blue at Toby's

2012-09-20 06:10:00

"The Color Purple" has an uplifting message. But it rises up from a stark story about an abused black woman in a Southern town in the early 20th century. This best-selling novel by Alice Walker was adapted into a popular Steven Spielberg-directed movie...

Toby's Dinner Theatre dazzles with 'The Color Purple'

2012-09-20 13:04:37

Expecting the usual entertaining evening delivered by talented players at Toby's Dinner Theatre of Columbia, I found instead a life-affirming, near-religious experience watching "The Color Purple" — a musical epic tracing one woman's journey from...

One troop yields six new Eagle Scouts, all friends, all seniors at Hereford High

2012-01-19 09:46:00

Six seniors at Hereford High School have something in common with former president Gerald Ford, director Steven Spielberg, astronaut Neil Armstrong and Walmart founder Sam Walton. They all are Eagle Scouts. On Jan. 7, Boy Scout Troop 1908 held an...

Crashing the Oscars

2012-02-22 00:50:28

The Oscars are serious — important people making important, relevant, thought-provoking movies about race, marital relations, horses and Owen Wilson seeing dead Parisians. The dresses and jewelry are beyond fancy. The tuxes are bespoke. Sidney...

Feb. 22: Our own Oscars

2012-02-22 00:00:00

Oscars comedy: Let's not take the Academy Awards too seriously We could ask "who will win?" But we'd rather ask a panel of funny folks -- including the likes of "Happy Endings" star Casey Wilson and "Chelsea Lately" writer Sarah Colonna -- who should...

Director Steven Spielberg speaks at the opening press conference of the Cannes Film Festival.

2013-05-15 07:32:00

People gather around the red carpet ahead of the opening of the 66th edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes. Cannes, one of the world's top film festivals, will climax on May 26 with awards selected by a jury headed this year by Hollywood legend Steven Spielberg.

2013-05-15 00:00:00

Journalists take pictures as director Steven Spielberg, Jury President of the 66th Cannes Film Festival, arrives to attend a news conference before the opening of the 66th Cannes Film Festival in Cannes May 15, 2013. The Cannes Film Festival runs from May 15 to May 26.

2013-05-15 00:00:00