Gary Dretzka

Robert Zemeckis took a circuitous route from the South Side of Chicago to Hollywood, attending Northern Illinois University before transferring to the University of Southern California. After first attracting the...

Although most independent and special-interest films struggle at the box office, they often enjoy a profitable afterlife in the video marketplace. The biggest hurdles faced by distributors of gay and...

In its first major protest against a television network since having the reruns of the sitcom "Amos `n' Andy" snatched from the air 33 years ago, the NAACP threatened Monday...

President Clinton on Tuesday hailed a promise by the nation's movie theater owners that they will prevent children from seeing violent, R-rated movies by requesting photo identification. But the pledge,...

In his nearly 10 years in show business--with a couple dozen motion pictures under his belt--no one has ever mistaken Joe Viterelli for a comedian. A mobster, a teamster, a...

Embedded Systems Conference Spring, a trade show opening Monday morning at McCormick Place, features the Midwest debut of a hot new industry that calls itself ubiq. That's not a typographical...

Instead of ending with the usual whimper, this year's marathon Television Critics Association press confab ended with a bang--go-go dancers, pro wrestlers and the presence of legendary filmmaker Francis Ford...

When asked about his first acting assignment, actor John Cusack tried to duck the question. His father, though, was happy to answer at a session promoting their joint HBO project,...

Digital television may be an idea whose time has yet to come, but the Public Broadcasting Service isn't wasting any time trying to develop an audience for the new technology....

Although the Television Critics Association's winter press tour continues to be a rather lackluster affair, newly installed NBC Entertainment President Scott Sassa did manage to stop the yawning Thursday when...