After Deltona Mayor Santiago Avila, Jr., rescinded his proclamation of March 13 as L. Ron Hubbard Day, one key question lingered: How did this come about in the first place? David Sosa, a former city ...

Technically the character, played by Philip Seymour Hoffman, whom we meet in the new trailer for Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master, is named Lancaster Dodd. But the movie is supposedly based on the ...

Last week, this column covered the curious path of hard-boiled crime writer Dashiell Hammett, who was near 50, sickly, a celebrity and a Communist Party member when he went from Hollywood fame to Army ...