The Beach Boys' "Pet Sounds" is acclaimed as one of the finest albums of the last 50 years; it has a particularly special place in my heart, as the CD was on repeat in our Brighton apartment while my partner Fiona was in the final throes of labor, about to deliver our first son.
The Lady Chablis, the unabashed Savannah, Georgia, transgender queen who became a gay icon after finding fame in the 1990s through the "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil" book and movie, has died. She was 59.
Clint Eastwood gained fame in westerns as The Man With No Name, and has recently forged a directorial niche in movies featuring Men of Few Words. So he follows the hugely popular "American Sniper" with another film featuring a character graced with quiet nobility, "Sully," a spare and old-fashioned celebration of heroism.
Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger does not consider himself a hero for landing US Airways Flight 1549 safely on the Hudson River in 2009 -- but Tom Hanks, who plays Sullenberger in the upcoming film "Sully," most certainly does.
In September 1976, "Star Trek" fans descended upon the Statler Hilton in New York. Photographer Shalmon Bernstein was there to capture all the "trekkies" and their costumes at the four-day convention.
The ostensible selling point of "For the Love of Spock" -- a documentary about the late Leonard Nimoy -- is the personal connection that his son, Adam, directed it. Alas, that turns out to be weakest aspect of this warm, nostalgic window into the "Star Trek" universe.
