A White House aide, leafing through a routine sheaf of wire copy from the news ticker, started with surprise. He had come across the report of Joe Martin’s speech, made that afternoon in the House, ...

There's no point in keeping that a secret. I've said it before in different ways: The beloved icon of this newspaper's entertainment sections is, in fact, a complete nuisance to criticism. That's ...

He was born at The Chronicle during World War II, already balding, as fully grown as he'd ever get and an avid theater- and moviegoer from the start. Already slightly anachronistic, with the bowler ...