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How Great Would It Be for Leno to Go on Letterman One Last Time?
A meeting between the two rivals would make a fitting farewell to a comedy era—and might remind people that there's more to Leno than his successful-but-stale Tonight routine.
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AP Before the Muppets, Jim Henson Tried to Build a Futuristic Nightclub
A new biography sheds light on the many careers of the late artist, including his live-action experimental filmmaking.
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You Can Do Anything: Must Every Kids' Movie Reinforce the Cult of Self-Esteem?
Encouraging kids is fine, but films like Planes and Turbo take their messages to an extreme. Parents should turn to 1969's A Boy Named Charlie Brown for a reality check.
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LeBron Who? 'Casey at the Bat' Was Hating Arrogant Athletes 125 Years Ago
Ernest Thayer's poem, first published in June of 1888, became a sportswriting classic by combining 19th-century baseball details with a timeless fable about hubris.
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The Problem With Remembering Stan Musial as Baseball's 'Perfect Knight'
The late legend's nice-guy mythology has lent him a diminished legacy compared with the his peers.
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Tony La Russa: Great Manager, Terrible Memoirist
The man who led the St. Louis Cardinals to a World Series championship last season knows baseball—but not how to write about it.
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SNL Is Hopelessly Stuck in the Past
Its sketches lampoon decades-old talk shows while barely acknowledging the Internet's existence.
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St. Louis's Second Most Valuable Player
Forget David Freese and Albert Pujols: The Cardinals owe their World Series victory to a middling retired pitcher named Kent Bottenfield
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Tom Waits Sounds Older, Weirder, and Wiser on 'Bad As Me'
Waits's latest album sees the ornery and brilliant singer addressing his own legend
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Tom Waits: From Tropicana Motel to Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
A look at the career of the raspy-voiced singer-songwriter, who has always seemed slightly out of step with his contemporaries
