As promised, Laurie King is guest blogging here today on a topic and period that for a while now has been of endless fascination to me.  I'm a relatively new convert to the Mary Russell & Sherlock Holmes mysteries, but trust me, it only takes one book to become addicted.  S...

There are some fantastic movies coming up in 2009, and while you never know how a movie will fare until you actually see it, I’ve picked out 16 movies that I think will knock us out with their awesomeness. See if you agree, and add your own in the comments! 1. Watchmen (March 6). “Who wa...

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My friend Bruce Weinstein (Swarthmore ‘82, like me) wrote an interesting essay recently in BusinessWeek: Are You a Good Leader?. I was impelled to share the following with him. There’s a famous story in my family about the guy (a relative, but I can’t remember which one) who appli...

Sound the geek alarm! Actually don’t. The alarm costs money to operate, and this recession is killing us as it is. What were you thinking? But there’s official word coming from the mouth of Iron Man himself that Mickey Rourke is not going to play Crimson Dynamo. Does that mean he wonR...

Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes wraps this week in Brooklyn and to celebrate, USA Today nabbed an official photo and an interview with Robert Downey Jr. It's more about Kirk Lazarus being nominated than Holmes being filmed ... and really, the picture isn't that exciting, except that we finally get a t...

Director Guy Ritchie and film star Robert Downey, Jr. were lookin’ quite the cozy pair on the Brooklyn, NY set of Sherlock Holmes yesterday … the guys were literally joined at the hip as they greeted photogs in one another’s arms … behold: Mebbe the guys were off to braid one...

When last we saw Jude Law, his sexy ass was on holiday with his ex-wife Sadie Frost and his 3 children in Brazil (lookin’ totally hawt as he read a book poolside at his hotel) … but the vacay is over and it’s now time to get back to work. Production on the big screen adaptation of ...

Over the past few weeks we’ve beaten you to a pulp with lists. We laid down list after list in our 2008 Year in Review and even gave you Ten People to Watch in 2009. And while you might think that’s enough. That you never want to read another list from the staff of FSR again, we must dis...

Here’s the Warner Bros. 2009 Film Preview. And woohoo that "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" will finally hit theaters on July 17, 2009. "The Dark Knight" hits theaters — AGAIN! Zac Efron gets a chance to be young again in "17 Again" (uh, haven’...