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Samuel L. Jackson

The World

‘I’m surprised at how boring a film about sex can actually be’

Culture

Critics offer plenty of shade to ”Fifty Shades of Grey” but are sweet on Colin Firth in “Kingsman.” Rafer Guzman, film critic for Newsday, and Kristen Meinzer, culture producer for The Takeaway, guide us through this week’s releases.

Mikhail Kalashnikov, the designer of the AK-47 assault rifle, an acronym for "Avtomat Kalashnikov model 1947", indicating its first year of production.

Mikhail Kalashnikov and his AK-47 take a bow

Arts, Culture & Media

U.S. Embassy in France makes outreach to minority communities a top priority

Global Politics

Broadway play imagines Martin Luther King’s last moments

Arts, Culture & Media

Ambassador Charles Rivkin and American Diplomacy in Paris Suburbs

Business, Economics and Jobs
The World

‘The Mountaintop’ imagines Martin Luther King’s final hours

Arts, Culture & Media

A new Broadway play called “The Mountaintop” imagines what King’s private moments in his hotel room were like in the hours leading up to his death. Katori Hall, author of “The Mountaintop,” discusses her new work.

The World

Pentagon meets Tinseltown

Arts, Culture & Media

After countless movies about Iraq and Afghanistan, Lt. Col. J. Todd Breasseale just wants filmmakers to tell it like it is? or perhaps how the Army says it is. But is Breasseale’s Army Media Relations division concerned with telling the truth, or promoting its own agenda? Guest: Lt. Col. J. Todd Breasseale, Army Relations Los Angeles Division