British actor Frank Thornton, who played the pompous Captain Peacock in the television department store sitcom “Are You Being Served”, has died aged 92, his agent says.
Are You Being Served? star dies
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Newcomer to direct Jurassic Park 4
Colin Trevorrow is taking the reins of
Headed For Gaza, Flotilla Must First Fight Greek Ban
The way the pro-Palestinian activists on the Freedom Flotilla II see it, Israel has managed to extend the sea blockade of Gaza to Greece. First, there was the anonymous safety complaint that docked the U.S
Texting While Eating: The New Etiquette of Casual Dining
I can’t pretend to be the most elegant of men. My manners, as you would expect of any zealot, are half feral at best.
Green Lantern: Not So Super-Hero
It must be a difficult task to assemble an action-adventure fantasy, especially for this summer of superhero-origin movies, with Thor and X-Men already in theaters and Captain America following in July.
Terminating A Double Agent
TITLE: A MURDER IN WARTIME AUTHOR: JEFF STEIN PUBLISHER: ST. MARTIN’S PRESS; 414 PAGES; $22.95 THE BOTTOM LINE: This is the best military morality tale since The Caine Mutiny
Box Office: Pirates 4 Calm at Home, Full Speed Ahead Abroad
When is $90 million not enough for a weekend movie?
Radio: Idea Man
Up to a Mutual microphone stepped Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, to help auction off four pairs of Nylons, a Persian lamb coat, a bat autographed by Babe Ruth. They were some of the sideline booty which a sympathetic U.S.
Russian Orphans in U.S.: When Adopted Kids Can’t Adapt
As their mom Marianne cut up celery and opened a tub of hummus, the three Massi boys alternately darted and drifted through the kitchen. In between snacking, one took the two family dogs into the backyard to play.
The Way We Weren’t
A few weeks before Captain George S. James sent the first mortar round arcing through the predawn darkness toward Fort Sumter, South Carolina, on April 12, 1861, Abraham Lincoln cast his Inaugural Address as a last-ditch effort to win back the South.