OSCAR ROUNDTABLE
Angelina Jolie, George Clooney and other stars discuss the uncertain award season in our annual roundtable.
THE ARTS
Haven't seen enough Jane Austen movies lately? Good, because PBS now has all six novels on film.
BOOKS
The Civil War wasn't just our bloodiest conflict. It also changed the way Americans look at death.
THEATER
Clay Aiken is sore from rehearsing for 'Spamalot,' and now he's sore at us.
BOOKS
Giving Artemis Fowl some time off, Eoin Colfer turns to a hero imprisoned on an island—who builds an airplane to escape
TELEVISION
'Supermodel' school opens on Bravo, and host Tyson Beckford provides the inside line on how to strut to win (a two-hour daily workout, to start).
BOOKS
A book of declassified documents reveals Stalin and his successors as trigger-happy liars who never saw a fact they couldn't twist.
PASSION AND POLITICS
Nicolas Sarkozy seems to be moving on to his next marriage with unseemly haste. Or perhaps not.
TELEVISION
Scoff all you want. At least the competitors on 'American Gladiator' put up a fair fight.
caption: Ave, Caesar, morituri te salutamus--oops, we mean, they work hard for the money.
ENTERTAINMENT
The Writers Guild may be winning the battles, but its hardball tactics could lose the public opinion war.
The Hollywood writers' strike claims another victim: the Golden Globes
TELEVISION
For five seasons, critics have worshiped 'The Wire'—and lamented that more people don't. Now's your last chance to catch what may be TV's best drama ever.
ENTERTAINMENT
A clinical psychiatrist on what happens at the hospital
ENTERTAINMENT
Tired of Iowa and politics? There's always the latest chapter in the Spears saga to watch.
BOOKS
From 'The Stinky Cheese Man' to the newly minted post of 'children's laureate,' Jon Scieszka has always insisted that reading should be fun and, if at all possible, funny
TELEVISION
Our verdict: Letterman—can't live with 'em; Leno—can't live without 'em; Conan—funny either way.
VIDEOGAMES
In a virtual world of fantasy and science fiction, realistic videogames set in World War II are ever popular. But is this a good way to learn history?
TELEVISION
This season on 'Law & Order,' Sam Waterston gets a big promotion. We don't think it's big enough.
CRIME
The Greenhalghs looked like such a nice family. But you should see what they cooked up in their kitchen.
THEATER
These short Samuel Beckett plays go from hopeless to more so. No reason you can't have a good time.
DOCUMENTARY
Justin Fatica yells, threatens and humiliates teens into finding Jesus. You got a problem with that?
ARTS
With the death of writer and critic Elizabeth Hardwick, the once-rollicking world of the New York intellectual is a diminished, lesser place.
MOVIES
In the riveting 'Atonement,' a 13-year-old girl tells a lie that destroys many lives, including her own.
