Joan Plowright

The Summer House

Widows' Wonderland

Hot Love

World of Film

Smaller, and with shorts, WorldFest/Houston cranks up its projectors

Respected to Death

Jane Eyre has everything it needs to succeed -- except life

More Panting than Painting

Jane Eyre has everything it needs to succeed -- except life

Dogmeat

Disney's Dalmatians ain't the puppy chow it could have been

Tea with Mussolini

Zeffirelli has a different take on life under a dictator

Soaring Egos

Forgotten theatrical deities play on in the compelling Orson's Shadow

Palfrey Sum

Age trumps beauty when Dame Plowright visits the Claremont

Diva Down

Franco Zeffirelli imagines cheering up an operatic legend

Boy Meets Whirl

A lost lad longs for life

Phat Chance

Steve Martin almost gets Down with Queen Latifah, but they mostly strike out

The Tired Gun

Or: Why winning an Oscar sometimes means losing sight of a career

T-Rex in Mouse Ears

The Mesozoic Era undergoes the Disney treatment in Dinosaur