Only twice has an actor appeared in three 'Best Picture' Academy Award nominees, once in 1940 and again in 2002.

Novelist Ninotchka Rosca recently reminisced that she’d dropped by the Senate on Sept. 21, 1972, only to run into former Sen. Benigno ”Ninoy” Aquino Jr., who seems to have shared the common ...

An immersive account of how the inhabitants of a liberal city – including the author’s father – survived fascism In December 1941, the Nazi authorities received a letter from a soldier complaining ...

Source: Frederick W. Kent Collection, University of Iowa Libraries, Iowa City, Iowa In the late 1930s, as fascism consolidated power in Europe and democracy braced for its greatest stress test, three ...

Silk Stockings has Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse, the music of Cole Porter and comes off as a top-grade musical version of Metro's 1939 Ninotchka. Adapted from the [1955] Broadway musical adaptation ...

DETROIT — Kyla Wright and her mother, Ninotchka Jackson-Wright, are not your typical Detroit Lions fans. They’re the cool ones — the kind other fans stopped to photograph and swap stories with Sunday ...

One, Two, Three (Mirisch; United Artists) is a yell-mell, hard-sell, Sennett-with-a-sound-track satire of iron curtains and color lines, of people’s demockeracy, Coca-Colonization, peaceful ...

ST. LOUIS — Schnuck Markets announced major leadership changes Tuesday, naming Ted Schnuck as chief operating officer (COO) and David Bell as president of the company’s new parent organization, 1939 ...

Longevity gains made in the first half of the 20th century have significantly slowed down in recent decades, according to a new study. The study, published in the journal PNAS, analysed life ...

Luc Haasbroek is a writer and videographer from Durban, South Africa. He has been writing professionally about pop culture for eight years. Luc's areas of interest are broad: he's just as passionate ...

A tough Soviet diplomat travels to Paris on official business to oversee the sale of jewels seized during the Russian Revolution, but finds herself drawn to a man who represents everything she is ...