Returning ‘Firing Line’

from Deadline ‘Firing Line’: PBS Reloads Public-Affairs Show With Host Margaret Hoover by Erik Pedersen EXCLUSIVE: PBS is bringing back an iconic property after nearly two decades. The pubcaster said today that a new version of Firing Line, the William F....

Grand Unified Math Finally?

from New Scientist Theorem of everything: The secret that links numbers and shapes For millennia mathematicians have struggled to unify arithmetic and geometry. Now one young genius could have brought them in sight of the ultimate prize By Gilead Amit IF JOEY was...

Friedkin Returns

from The Guardian William Friedkin: ‘You don’t know a damn thing, and neither do I’ By Charles Bramesco The Exorcist director returns to his demonic roots with a new documentary, but he’s not interested in discussing your skepticism A video clip featuring...

4 ’68 Radicals

from The LA Times Four radical and radically original pieces of music that blew up the modernist status quo in 1968 By MARK SWED On a cold Berkeley morning early in December 1968, I cut class and joined a queue on Telegraph Avenue, waiting for Discount Records to...

Miloš Forman Gone

from The LA Times Miloš Forman, Oscar-winning Czech director of ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,’ dies at 86 By GINA PICCALO Miloš Forman came of age as a filmmaker under the watchful eyes of the Soviets in postwar Czechoslovakia. And though he...