Skerritt was Captain Dallas in Alien, Viper in Top Gun, and a small town sheriff in the TV series Picket Fences.

"There's an understandable pull in my industry to make things ... super safe, super familiar," Gilpin says. She wants to go the other way. Gilpin currently stars in the noir drama The Lowdown.

In '72, filmmaker William Greaves hosted a cocktail party for the surviving members of the Harlem Renaissance. Our critic says the footage is "like watching a 50th college reunion set on Mt. Olympus."

Between the ever-popular tabletop role-playing game, "Dungeons & Dragons," or the classic military figurine, G.I. Joe, Hasbro has had a hand in most of our childhoods.

British Adventurer Karl Bushby left Chile with the goal of walking an unbroken path back to his childhood home in England. Now, 28 years later, his Goliath Expedition is coming to a close.

For years, the country celebrated Oct. 21 as "Edison Day," throwing parades for the famous inventor whose devices changed the world. His phonograph was the first device to play back a recorded human voice--and that invention led to his creepy talking doll, which is now considered one of his biggest failures.

A quilt artist who spent decades on death row now has his first solo exhibit at the Grand Rapids Art Museum.

Since his 2015 debut album, Leon Bridges has transformed himself from a Sam Cooke-style crooner into a shape-shifting singer of all things from mambo to disco. His new album is called Happiness Anytime.

Writer David Treuer's Ojibwe mother saw America as a country that tried to destroy her people. For his father, a Jewish refugee, the U.S. was the country that saved his life.

It is hard not to fall in love with Katherine Browne, the eager to please, mini-skirted narrator in Barbara Trapido's 40-plus-year-old debut novel, reissued this month.