Matthew Specktor grew up around celebrities during an era of bold filmmaking — only to see safe franchises dominate and ...

Bette Davis was one of the many guest stars on Gunsmoke, but few had the acting pedigree that she did ... and she knew it.

Specktor is the son of a well-connected movie agent ... As Fred ingratiates himself with higher-caliber clients — Bruce Dern chief among them — he swims with the current of the decade's ...

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” — which was published 100 years ago today — might not have happened without “The Big Four.” Born in the late 1890s, the four Lake Forest daughters of prominent ...

She keeps moving in lively fashion to answer the phone, to recover a stray toy for the young son, and ... husband and actor and Winnetka native Bruce Dern, who played Tom Buchanan in the 1974 ...

He’s also the kind of guy who would goad a racist into pulling out his gun by telling him an elaborate tale of how he sexually abused and killed his son ... little dim. Bruce Dern as a dying ...

Laura Dern and Isabella Rossellini also star ... an oddball protagonist (Michael Keaton’s understated turn as Bruce Wayne) who battles the sadistic Joker (a magnificent Jack Nicholson) for ...

The film is a direct response to the War on Terror, and in that regard is a thematically meaty affair that furthers Bruce Wayne’s ... spread the gospel that her son is a true messiah.

Silent Running was a cult environmental-themed science fiction thriller, starring Bruce Dern, which was about a ... Paradise lay/Well I’m sorry my son but you’re too late in asking/Mr. Peabody ...