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A tried and true maxim, for sure. And given today's 'shows,' one has an impressive variety .from which to choose--movies, TV, the Internet, Broadway (or Off-), even Netflix is getting [...]

Check out our copious roster of winter-spring arrivals from Tinseltown. Perusing the lists, we've pondered the difference that distinguishes film fans from film fanatics. Give up? Fans are pretty sure [...]

Maybe it's just as well that the summer movie season is winding down, as several recent films--blockbusters that weren't--are taking heat in more ways than one. There's been considerable chatter [...]

From the latest TV ratings, the timeliest theater reviews and last week's movie box-office grosses, fans of all stripes can handily satisfy their cravings. As the following entries indicate, there's [...]

A major voice in the world of movies was silenced last week when beloved film critic Roger Ebert succumbed to cancer after a long and public battle. Ebert is widely [...]

No, not the astronomical variety, but the performers who have contributed their numerous talents in the Business known as Show. On stages around the world and on screens large and [...]

In addition to the diverse assortment of new releases and top-of-the-line stars, this season's tie-ins might also represent the largest crop of classic movie revisions we've collected in some time--Anna [...]

As the noted composer-lyricists Arthur Schwartz and Howard Dietz wrote (and the late great Judy warbled brilliantly), 'The world is a stage, the stage is a world of entertainment.' Tunesmith [...]

Made in America--mostly. Sure, Hollywood's still pulling the strings, but a lot of the season's flicks are either set in foreign locales (India, Sweden, Scotland, outer space), and/or filmed beyond [...]

According to Mr. Webster, an icon is 'an object of uncritical devotion'--a definition that has diversified notably of late. Today's icons are apt to be people (Lady Gaga, Tom Cruise), [...]

Claymation, Chimpanzee, Coriolanus, Close (Glenn), comedy (lots), and classics (happy 200th birthday, Mr. Dickens)--looks like a cool collection. Several of the season's movies are based on nonfiction works: Julianne Moore [...]

Clooney, and Muppets, and Rum, oh my! While there's always something for everyone at the movies, the coming four months appear to hold even more 'something'--celebrated swashbucklers buckle anew; Shakespeare's [...]

In the entertainment world, there are myriad performers; there are also stars, and then there are stars--and not all of them are people. Expanding the definition, one could term Facebook [...]

By now we've all heard about 'staycations,' the budget vacation alternatives that avoid the crowds, the travel dilemmas (airplanes clipping each other's wings, e.g.), and the stress. But what about [...]

In examining today's LGBT publishing scene from a variety of perspectives, we've asked four industry players--publisher, editor, agent, and advocate--to give us their outlook on this ever-evolving landscape. In the [...]

Indeed it was, back when Will Shakespeare coined the phrase in his 1600 opus, As You Like It. But some 400 years later one needs to augment those stages with [...]

Let's think about the fall when, hopefully, the oil leak in the Gulf is capped, the sound of vuvuzelas is a distant memory, and booksellers and--buyers are enthralled by Paul [...]

The breadth of tides targeting today's GLBT audience continues to expand, with weighty topics ranging from wartime memoirs and tomes on gay marriage to such lighthearted fare as boy-meets-boy romances [...]

This publishing season kicks off a new decade--and things may never be the same. In the following 60 pages, you will find hardcover books from commercial houses, university presses, and [...]

Despite the recent reports of doom and gloom in the book business, our spring announcements indicate an optimistic outlook: we received submissions from 775 publishers--many of them new to these [...]

Each season publishers promise thrills and chills from first-time mystery authors. What's the allure of these debuts, we wondered, for readers and specialty bookstores? According to Maggie Griffin, co-owner of [...]

'One of the reasons why dog books continue to outsell cat books and other categories of pet books has to do with the very nature of what makes dogs unique,' [...]

It's 'for intelligent film goers,' said one critic about Brideshead Revisited, the Merchant-Ivory clone that opened last month amid summer's typically more lightweight offerings. For the fall, here come adaptations [...]

Maybe it's fall signaling the end of another year, or the prospect of yet another difficult year--politically, economically looming ahead. In any case, nostalgia seems to be key among the [...]

Indiana Jones! Batman! The Mummy! Need we say more: it's summer at the movies, and box-office hordes will be more congested than the lines at Disney. The aforementioned heroes are [...]

ABRAMS Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Apr., $19.95 paper), edited by Alex Steffen, designed by Sagmeister Inc., presents information, resources, reviews and ideas that give readers access [...]

'Americans like children. We are the only people who respond to prosperity by saying, 'Let's have another kid,'' says Nan Marie Astone, associate professor of population, family and reproductive health [...]

In the words of Houghton Mifflin senior editor Susan Canavan, 'There's no mistake about it: people have more thoughtful relationships with their pets than ever before.' And thereby hangs a [...]

Our preview of the spring season shows an unusually broad assortment of titles, especially in nonfiction. The Iraq war and Bush's political acumen (or lack thereof) are viewed from diverse [...]

BACK IN 1759, VOLTAIRE WAS CLEARLY ONTO something when he said, 'We must cultivate our garden.' Indeed, countless horticulturists, armed with spades and seed packets, have followed his dictum in [...]

Publishers Weekly: What part did historicals play in the emergence of the romance category, and what part are they playing nowadays? Gail Fortune: They were a natural outgrowth of historical [...]

Attempting to deduce the m.o. behind this popular genre, PW interrogates a line-up of prime suspects With so much creativity in the ever-popular mystery category, PW was inspired to try [...]

A dozen industry players offer their opinions on the competitive amorous arena OLIVIA HALL: RWA Prez Wants to Bring Romance Out of the Ghetto One of the best things Romance [...]

It's not even the New Year, and already the Tinseltown pundits are out with their Oscar predictions--well, predictions for the nominations, at least. (Mark those calendars: nominations announced, January 25; [...]

Read the book, see the movie: there's certainly something for everyone on the season's screens. Loved the Sex and the City movie? Don't miss the fab fashions and swish settings [...]

No less a literary publishing lion than Roger Straus once said, 'I don't publish books, I publish authors.' And wouldn't every literary house wish it could say the same. But [...]

Growing concerns about eating smart are reflected in the expanding array of healthy cookbooks In healthful cooking these days, the chow du jour concerns not what's in, but what's out. [...]

One of the most extraordinary stories of bravery to emerge from the war in Afghanistan took place in June 2005, when a four-man Navy SEAL team found themselves badly outnumbered [...]

'All dogs go to heaven... unless they have unfinished business here on Earth.' So wrote W. Bruce Cameron, whose 2010 panegyric to pooches, A Dog's Purpose: A Novel for Humans, [...]

As we have noted several times in this column, Nora Roberts has only herself to beat as the most prolific bestseller author. Her newest hardcover, Midnight Bayou, lands in the [...]

Q. What do Susan Sarandon, Dan Rather, Dr. Laura Schlessinger and Dubya have in common? A. They're just a few of the many prominent figures skewered by controversial commentator Bill [...]

Anne Rice lands in the #3 spot with Blood and Gold, the 2,000-year history of Marius, mentor to the Vampire Lestat. First printing was 750,000 copies, and Knopf has done [...]

We continue to see a significant increase in backlist sales of titles on the Mideast, Islam and terrorism. Two books that had been on our bestseller charts previously return this [...]

At 25, he's broken nearly every golf record, and now Tiger Woods is conquering the bestseller lists. His new book, How I Play Golf, written with the Golf Digest editors, [...]

Back in the fall of 1993, an Ace paperback appeared entitled Guilty Pleasures-Laurel K. Hamilton's first in her Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series. Readers really sank their teeth into these [...]

Vince Flynn's protagonist, CIA counterterrorism operative Mitch Rapp, prefers more, er, flesh-and-blood characters than Hamilton's Blake, but that hasn't impeded the success of author or hero. Rapp's previous three outings-Term [...]

This week, Patricia Cornwell repeats what she has done with most of her bestsellers-her newest lands in the top slot on the fiction hardcover charts after less than a week [...]

Also marking its second week on our fiction list is the finale of a series that's extended-and reinvigorated-a science fiction classic. Together with Kevin J. Anderson, Brian Herbert (son of [...]