Karen Stuart, executive director of the Association of Talent Agencies, reflects on the changing nature of an agent's job.

Fred Zinnemann puts Paul Scofield in a precarious position in the DGA Award winner A Man For All Seasons.

After stage managing shows like Who Wants to Be Millionaire and The View, Bruce-Baron says his SM skills have made for an easy transition into alpaca farming.

A second alternate on the DGA National Board, Santaballa likes to say that her job is mostly about "telling adults to be quiet" - including CBS president Les Moonves.

Known for his laid-back rapport with the crew, the Samoan-born Porter will still dash through burning buildings or wade through farm refuse to keep the production on track.

The director of one of TV's most explicit shows argues that filmmakers should be free to tell their stories-to a point.

We never seem to exhaust our appetite for film noir, as two intriguing new box sets demonstrate

The popular critic and author wonders if movies are getting too long.

An enthralling academic detective story (with a marked resemblence to one of Chandler's novels), The Long Embrace is 2007's finest book about Los Angeles.

A welcome addition to the University of Mississippi series of interviews with directors, Mankiewicz: Interviews continually draws fascinating material from the director with a little help from interviewers like Andrew Sarris and Michel Ciment.

Deftly sorting out a complicated political and artistic saga, Mann concentrates on the business issues, the postwar political environment and the emblematic indies to trace how films reflect the often dissident circumstances of their creation.

Originally published in 1979, this reissue of Anthony Mann (now expanded, restored and updated) remains the only serious book-length study of Mann's work in English.