Jimmy Fallon cracked up Lorne Michaels with his Seinfeld riff, landing a spot on the Saturday Night Live roster. But SNL's newest wiseguy heartthrob is no slick cynic -- he worries about his manners and loves his parents.

Our daughters know everything about their bodies and their selves. What they don't know is what it took to win them their rights. Ken Burns thinks it's time they met Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, the brilliant odd-couple activists who brought women the vote.

Forget Nurse Ratched: Peter Berg wanted to create a real series about life on a psych ward -- even if it meant spending eight months in Bellevue doing research. Welcome to Wonderland.

Macaulay Culkin's new play, Madame Melville, is about a man reflecting on the searing experiences of his youth. But Culkin's own childhood was infinitely stranger. Now, at age 20, he looks back.

Action is darker than Larry Sanders, savvier than South Park, as risqué as Sex and the City. And you won't even need a cable box to catch it.

Spike Lee, along with his wife, Tonya Lewis, is wealthy, hugely successful, at the top of W.E.B. DuBois’s “Talented Tenth” of black society in America. But does that mean Spike has mellowed? Hardly.

Is white appropriate? What’s the right term for a groom who’s a woman? And what to say to her mother?

George Trow’s Within the Context of No Context was a brilliant, scary vision of a cultural end-time. Then, having described it, he lived it, spiraling into madness.