For Beach Boy biopic, actors tap Wilson's peaks and valleys, Jeffrey Hodgson reports in Toronto.
As a first-time film director, television comedian Jon Stewart pleads ignorance about the workings of the movie industry.
A group of Sinologists have "nominated" the most promising Chinese candidates for the 2014 Nobel Prize in literature, which is expected to be announced in October.
The British government launched a covert operation in support of the Nepali government against communist rebels during the country's decadelong Maoist insurgency, according to a new book, entitled Kathmandu.
A new biography of late Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping has laid bare "ideological confrontations and contradictions within the Party", its chief editor said recently.
A Chinese park ranger in Tanzania shares the drama of the animal kingdom in his new book, Xing Yi reports.
Judge Judy is offering advice to women free of charge.
In 1995 an advertising executive named Ilene Beckerman narrated her life story through the clothes she wore at different ages. Nearly 15 years later, Nora and Delia Ephron turned her whimsical conceit for an autobiography into a smash off-Broadway hit.
Take a disgraced reporter desperate for a comeback and a tip about new evidence in the assassination of US President John F. Kennedy and you have The Kennedy Connection, a crime thriller written by a media insider fascinated with one of the defining moments of American history.
Google teams up with more Chinese art museums for online exhibitions, Deng Zhangyu reports.
Like millions of parents, Aaron Sacharow welcomes those moments when his son - 7-year-old Tyler - takes a break from video games and picks up a book instead.
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