Elvis hosts writer-film critic Kenneth Turan to talk about his book Free for All: Joe Papp, The Public, and the Greatest Theater Story Ever Told. With the creation of Shakespeare in the Park and the ...

At the peak of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in the Golden Age of Hollywood, audiences knew the name of the studio on the silver screen signaled something wonderful was about to begin. “If they would go to a ...

Sam Worthington battles monsters in the new movie Clash of the Titans. It's a remake of the 1981 flick. Film critic Kenneth Turan says the new version might be the first film to actually be made worse ...

This morning we're looking back at a Brooklyn boy who grew up in poverty in a Yiddish speaking household. He never went to college, but he went on to bring the finest writer in the English language to ...

One year ago, Congress defunded public media. Now that we're 100% community funded, please become a sustaining member or increase your existing membership today. Turan tells NPR's Steve Inskeep that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Kenneth Turan's splendid book about Hollywood titans Louis B. Mayer and Irving Thalberg is the first in 50 years to tell their ...

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The former LA Times film reviewer reflects on his path from Brooklyn to Hollywood, the current state of film criticism and the LA Times, and what inspired him to spend four years writing the first ...

Los Angeles Times and National Public Radio’s Morning Edition as well as the director of the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes. He has been a staff writer for the Washington Post as well as The Times’ ...