Jodie Foster’s Golden Globes Speech: What Did She Mean?

The actress' emotional acceptance speech for her achievement award baffled some listeners, but she clarifies that her fans need not worry about her future in...

Despite Controversy, Early Voting Boosts Obama in Florida

A look at the numbers begs the question: Did the GOP really succeed in blunting Democrats' early advantage?

HOLLYWOOD: Epic-Maker

"The greatest art in the world is the art of storytelling," said Cecil B. DeMille in a speech a few months before he died. Few men had changed that art as...

People: Dec. 23, 1985

In the beginning there was Cecil B. DeMille's The Ten Commandments. Now the biggest combination of show-biz and biblical spectacle may be The Glory of...

Cinema: Hot Air

MEETINGS WITH REMARKABLE MEN Directed by Peter Brook Screenplay by Jeanne de Salzmann and Peter Brook Meetings with Remarkable Men is the hip '70s answer to...

Religion: Franco Zeffirelli's Classical Christ for Prime Time

When Cecil B. DeMille undertook to portray Jesus in his 1927 film King of Kings, he established a style of reverential spectacle that endured for decades in...

AFRICA: Anxious for A New Start

"Cecil B. DeMille," cracked one Western visitor, "eat your heart out!" For five hours last week, 20,000 dancers, 5,000 camel drivers and 3,500 horsemen...

Music: The Met's Proph

Composer Giacomo Meyerbeer was to opera in mid-19th century Europe what Cecil B. DeMille was to Hollywood in his heyday. A master of the historical and...

Religion: Brother Andre's Heart

St. Joseph's Oratory in Montreal looks like Cecil B. DeMille's idea of a cathedral. Enthroned on Mount Royal, the city's highest hill, the oratory is bigger than...

Cinema, Also Showing Jun. 7, 1948

The Crusades (Paramount), produced in 1935 by Cecil B. DeMille, has been reissued on two pretexts: that war has come again to the Holy Land; that an Oscar has...