GODFREY DANIEL! MOTHer of pearl! Simon Louvish wants to set the record straight on the life of W. C. Fields. In Man on the Flying Trapeze (564 pages. Norton. $29.95), Fields's latest biographer starts ...
On my week off last month, I fulfilled a longtime wish by visiting two repertory movie houses in L.A., both of them owned by Quentin Tarantino: the New Beverly in the Fairfax District and the Vista ...
W.C. Fields was a sloshed-out comic genius who couldn't help but take his work home with him—and suffered the grim consequences because of it. FBI: Rigged poker games used X-ray tables, hidden cameras ...