Despite his impassive eyes, balding pate, and slit of a smile, Robert Duvall could be volcanic and melancholic, mysterious and straightforward, vengeful and merciful. Perhaps no modern American actor ...

Baseball’s 47th All-Star Game highlighted the Bicentennial summer celebration in Philadelphia. The scene was Veterans Stadium. The date was July 13, 1976, nine days following the country’s 200th ...

This month offers a tribute to the prolific filmmaker who died last week at 96 and has a plausible claim to being the greatest documentarian who ever lived.