Revealing the Titanic's Secrets

In his book, Titanic's Last Secrets, Brad Matsen tells the story of wreck divers John Chatterton and Richie Kohler and their search for the truth about the...

Are Paulson and Bernanke Running Out of Options?

Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and his team are starting to look like short-order cooks stuck in a perpetual lunch-hour rush. The worse the economic crisis...

Movies: Who Killed the Love Story?

Correction Appended Aug. 10, 2007Somewhere in the outer reaches of outback Australia, a place where there are few paved roads and, since it's winter, the...

Titanic Claim: Jesus Still Dead

Brace yourself. James Cameron, the man who brought you Titanic is back with another blockbuster. This time, the ship he's sinking is Christianity. In a new...

Religion: Rewriting The Gospels

At a certain point, as I sat in a grand room at the New York Public Library and heard Titanic director James Cameron explain why the bone box in front of him...

Is This Jesus's Tomb?

There were two types of fame on display at the press conference Monday morning in a grand, sky-lit room at the back of the New York Public library. There was...

Q&A with James Cameron

In April, nearly 10 years after Titanic made its box-office splash, director James Cameron starts filming his next feature, the sci-fi film Avatar. He spoke to...

Profile: Kate in The Raw

Two things distinguish the career of Kate Winslet. First, she had four Oscar nominations before she turned 30, a feat no other actor has managed since Liz Taylor...

People: Jan. 22, 2007

ANGIE TAKES ON MADGE It's easy to imagine MADONNA and ANGELINA JOLIE as gal pals--arranging intercontinental playdates for the kids, venting about their...

Aliens Of The Deep

James Cameron directed Aliens. He also directed Titanic. His latest movie, which opened last week, combines themes from both films and is called--what...

How Pumped Up is Baseball

Barry Bonds is a contact hitter who seems on his way to eclipsing Hank Aaron's career home-run record of 755. But it is Bonds' confirmed contact with illegal...

Movies: Leo: Portrait of the Young Man as an Artist

If Leonardo DiCaprio has a gaping wound in his soul that fuels his art and keeps him up nights, then he truly is the greatest actor of his generation. "At the...

Hitchcock's I.D.? Going Once ...

Summer is the season, it seems, for hawking history's private treasures. Up for bid this month are knickknacks from the estates of Kate Hepburn and Doris Duke,...

Milestones Jul. 22, 2002

FOUND. PT 109, sunken World War II torpedo boat commanded by Navy Lieut. John F. Kennedy; by explorer Robert Ballard of the National Geographic Society, who also...

Dark Victory

Maybe George Lucas ought to get out more. For the past three years, as he ruled his multimedia empire from the palatial redoubt of Skywalker Ranch in Marin...

A Book of Life

Studs Terkel was born in 1912, the year the Titanic went down. In his long career, he has been an actor, a disc jockey, a sports commentator and a television and...

The Magic of Make Believe

Hayao Miyazaki is frowning. The director's latest animated feature film Spirited Away is hurtling past Titanic to become Japan's top-grossing movie release ever...

'I Want to Know What Happened to Her'

David Jourdan has an attraction for deep water, the abyss. Founder of a Maryland-based maritime exploration company called Nauticos, he is probably best known...

'Asian Films Deserve Respect'

Monday, July 2, 2001 Kang Jegyu is Korea's best-known director/producer: his 1999 hit movie "Shiri," a high-budget espionage thriller about North and South...