Ratko Mladic, the former Bosnian Serb general accused of masterminding the massacre at Srebrenica in 1995, has been captured in Serbia after more than 15 years as one of the world’s most wanted fugitives.
Huguette Clark, obscenely rich reclusive heiress, is dead at 104. Wish I was her lawyer.
Edward Copeland gives us his personal take on the documentary How to Die in Oregon, premiering tonight on HBO.
Kathryn Bigelow’s bin Laden film gets the green light.
MSNBC’s Ed Schultz suspended after calling Laura Ingraham a “right-wing slut.”
In the month before his death, on May 5, the Tony Award-winning writer and director Arthur Laurents gave his blessing to a plan for a new film version of Gypsy, starring Barbra Streisand, and also finished a full-length play as well as his third memoir, Laurents’s agent and several associates said this week.
Matt Zoller Seitz on Oprah’s warm, funny, self-aggrandizing goodbye.
Wanting to clear up the Barry Lyndon aspect-ratio issue, Glenn Kenny has a chat with Stanley Kubrick’s collaborator Leon Vitali.
Video of conjoined twins Krista and Tatiana Hogan:
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