Today’s Headlines

Prosecutors have brought additional charges against Hollywood actor accused of stabbing his ex-girlfriend 20 times. Read more

As close to a series version of “Best in Show” as we’ll ever get, “Greatest American Dog” draws to a close this week. Read more

Dear Amy: I have a problem at work with the only other female co-worker in my department. Read more

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THANDIE NEWTON has garnered way more column inches for a movie she didn’t make (“Charlie’s Angels”) than for any of the 21 already under her petite belt. Read more

YOU OVERLOOKED “Laurel Canyon,” set in the heart of L.A. The story, direction, acting and production are all amazingly well done. Read more

The Sacred Book of the Werewolf A Novel Victor Pelevin Viking: 335 pp., $25.95 TO PARAPHRASE the Greek poet Archilochus, “The fox knows many things, but a werefox – who looks to the untutored eye like a 15-year-old Muscovy nymphet peddling her body in the National Hotel, but is, in fact, over 2,000 years old – is searching for the one big thing.” Read more

Friday Alice Neel A documentary about one of the great portrait painters of the 20th century, exploring the struggles she faced as a female artist, a single mother and a painter who defied convention. Read more

Remember “Life With Bonnie,” that ABC sitcom with Bonnie Hunt as a daytime talk-show host? Read more

UNLIKE novels that delight in plot twists and structural play, Marilynne Robinson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning “Gilead” is seemingly straightforward and free of pyrotechnics. Read more

VETERAN actress Cloris Leachman has a thing about women directors – she doesn’t like working with them. Read more

OSCAR-WINNING filmmaker Barry Levinson doesn’t think his latest project – the Hollywood satire “What Just Happened?” Read more

Museum of Arts and Design, New York Edward Durell Stone’s 1964 Gallery of Modern Art on the southern edge of Columbus Circle in Manhattan – a building then-New York Times critic Ada Louise Huxtable famously dissed as a “Venetian palazzo on lollipops” – was controversial from the start. Read more

CLARK GREGG, one of those actors everyone recognizes as the strait-laced good guy – see also: “The West Wing,” “The New Adventures of Old Christine” – was looking for his first film project to direct. Read more

Martin Kersels: Heavyweight Champion That title may be the perfect tongue-in-cheek label for this retrospective of a 6-foot, 7-inch, 350-pound artist who presents himself as a hilariously creative lummox. Read more

Kids’ Stuff Compiled by Grace Krilanovich. Read more

CALLING from, as one might well imagine, France, John Malkovich is measured, urbane and dryly witty. Read more

EARLY IN the upcoming tech-thriller “Eagle Eye,” a suspected terrorist is in the back seat of an SUV bouncing along a rugged road in Afghanistan as a U.S. spy drone follows it from the skies overhead. Read more