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The 50 best movies of all time

From film critics Gail Kinn and Jim Piazza's new book 'The Greatest Movies Ever,' their picks for the 50 greatest films
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The 50 best movies of all time

From film critics Gail Kinn and Jim Piazza's new book 'The Greatest Movies Ever,' their picks for the 50 greatest films
11/22/63

Stephen King whisks readers back to 1963 in a piece of time-traveling historical fiction that asks: What if JFK had survived?
Chapter & Verse
Mystery Magazine: At 70, Ellery Queen's publication still has a clue

The last couple of decades have been rough but editor Janet Hutchings says the Internet era is now boosting EQMM's profile and leading to a rebirth.
In Pictures: Famous Barbie dolls
In Pictures: Phones on screen
Bye Bye Blackbird: USDA acknowledges a hand in one mass bird death

One in a series of mysterious mass bird deaths in the past month was the product of a USDA avicide program, which began as operation Bye Bye Blackbird in the 1960s.
Top Picks: PBS documentary 'A Murder of Crows,' Mike Wallace's 'Politics & Presidents,' and more

PBS documentary 'A Murder of Crows,' folk-rock Sufjan Stevens' new CD 'The Age of Adz,' lessons from an award winning journalist in '20th Century With Mike Wallace: Politics & Presidents,' and more recommendations.
Horizons
The Wizard of Oz 71st anniversary: Does Google hate round numbers?

The Wizard of Oz gets its own Google doodle. But isn't the search engine late to the party?
Road-trip glimpses of America's true worth

Despite persistent joblessness and taxing wars overseas, a summer road trip shows that the American spirit is alive and well.
'Knight and Day': Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz star as a fugitive couple

'Knight and Day' stars Cameron Diaz and Tom Cruise in this high-energy action comedy.
'Jaws' 35th anniversary: How Jaws changed summer movie blockbusters

'Jaws' 35th anniversary already? In the summer of 1975, Jaws kept a lot of people out of the water.
Point Omega

In Don DeLillo's latest novel, two men sit outside a desert hideaway, deep in discussion about the Iraq war.
Global News Blog
Alfred Hitchcock's old home plays host to J.M.W. Turner admirers

Admirers of British painter J.M.W. Turner meet in Alfred Hitchcock's old home. They're pushing for a better appreciation of the painter's work.
Three ways the Comcast-NBC merger could change television

As Americans' media habits shift toward the Internet, cable companies are being marginalized. The potential Comcast-NBC Universal deal is Comcast's bid to remain relevant.
FROM OUR FILES: An Interview with Karl Malden

Karl Malden, who died today, spoke to the MONITOR in 1959 about acting and working with directors such as Kazan and Hitchcock.
A telltale Poe-pourri

It’s the bicentennial of the birth of Edgar Allan Poe, creator of the detective yarn. Where better than the city of idiosyncrasy – Baltimore – to celebrate?
Bright Green
Kamikaze pelicans baffling Calif. scientists

Scores of weak and disoriented California brown pelicans have been slamming into cars and boats, landing on highways and airport runways, and turning up dead in back yards and parking lots many miles from their normal coastal habitats.
Six Picks: Recommendations from the Monitor staff

New vinyl to take for a spin, novelist Francine Prose at her best, a hundred hours of 'The Man from U.N.C.L.E.,' and more.
Sounding out character in movies

Movie sound design proves more art than science.