Michael Kilian

The fascination of artists and photographers with the city of New York is -- in architectural terms -- a bit inexplicable. Chicago always has been visually unique among cities in...

Now 75, John Astin dates back to what you could call the old-fashioned days of television. In terms of comedy, they were certainly what you could call -- as the...

In one of last year's presidential debates, George Bush and John Kerry were asked what was the most serious threat facing the United States. Both replied without equivocation or hesitation...

They could be called the most beautiful museums in the world. Many have actual museums attached to them. They also function as shrines and as burial places for some of...

When I first became a newspaperman (nothing so lofty as "journalist") 40 years ago next month, it was at the end of an era when papers carried more stories about...

Our subject today is God. Not God as politics, which has occupied newspaper pages for far too long a time, but the much more agreeable one of God as art....

On the whole, I have always preferred Catherine Deneuve to the tarantula hawk wasp. Nations and their member states and provinces love to establish symbols of themselves. The U.S. chose...

If Hollywood has produced an icon for the modern American, it is the movie cop. "Today's cop is yesterday's cowboy," said Randy Jurgenson, the retired New York homicide detective who...

Filmmakers and historical authenticity long have been a dubious match. Cecil B. DeMille's floodlit spectaculars aside, the crowning moment of cinematic historical ridiculousness I think still remains Tony Curtis' now...

Contrary to the snooty notions of ancestor-worshiping outfits such as the Mayflower Society, few immigrants to this country came here as aristocrats simply seeking a change of scene. Many were...