Malcolm Johnson

"Hair" is here again in all of its naughty hippie dippieness and chaotic passions. The new edition of the American TribalLove-Rock Musical, which opened Thursday at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park, works more tellingly as a '60s revue than as a...

In "Buffalo Gal," A.R. Gurney neatly weaves together two homecomings. Smartly directed by Mark Lamos, the play that opened Tuesday night at off-Broadway's 59E59 focuses on a fading Hollywood diva, Amanda, who returns to the city of her youth to play...

Neil Labute's "Reasons To Be Pretty" explodes instantly with a fusillade of obscene invective that would make David Mamet blanch. The attacks come from the incensed Steph, filled with righteous fury by the excellent Alison Pill. As its title suggests,...

The Clifford Odets' renaissance continues, blessed by the presences of Morgan Freeman, Frances McDormand and Peter Gallagher in Mike Nichols' dynamic and sensitive production of "The Country Girl." Written in 1950, long after his heyday as the golden boy...

No one had illusions of athletic grandeur when 6-foot-4, 180-pound Joey Haynos first walked through the doors of Gonzaga College High School in Washington, D.C., as a freshman in 1999. Growing up in Rockville, Haynos excelled in basketball, played...

What do you think of the WGA list? ++++++++++++++++++++ || 1. || CASABLANCA Screenplay by Julius J. & Philip G. Epstein and Howard Koch. Based on the play "Everybody Comes to Rick's" by Murray Burnett and Joan Alison || || 2. || THE GODFATHER...

2 stars (out of 4) "The Matrix Reloaded" thunders along not as a sequel but as an infinitely prolonged serial episode, complete with a "To Be Concluded" tagline followed, eons later, after the credits scroll, by a brief trailer for "The Matrix...

4 stars (out of 4) After years of sinking from its former heights, Walt Disney Pictures scored a miraculous comeback in 1989 with "The Little Mermaid." Now the great animators go under the sea again with the visually vibrant and dramatically satisfying...

At the moment, Hartford's movie-lovers can savor some of the best pictures of 2002, released at the end of the year in major markets and now spreading to the provinces. Still, it is a long way to the start of the next big movie season, which begins May...

Just over 50 years ago, the first major movie alien, a giant, murderous carrot, struck terror into the hearts and minds of Cold War America. It was called "The Thing," or "The Thing From Another World," and it scared audiences silly. Now the monsters...

``The Fellowship of the Ring," the first in Peter Jackson's ``The Lord of the Rings" trilogy, succeeds mightily as picture-book storytelling, with its constantly exhilarating tapestry of quaint Hobbit houses, dark town streets, Victorian elf chateaux...

Michael Mann opens ``Ali" with an invigorating burst of music and images, bouncing through the early years of Cassius Clay, as a surrogate Sam Cooke rocks out ``(Don't Fight It) Feel It" and Will Smith rockets through a fusillade on a speed bag. With...