Articles by Robert W. Welkos

THE scene opens with a herd of duckbill dinosaurs gorging on kelp. Read more

Charlton Heston, the Oscar-winning actor who achieved stardom playing larger-than-life figures including Moses, Michelangelo and Andrew Jackson in historical epics and went on to become a best-selling author, a contentious Hollywood labor leader, an unapologetic gun advocate and darling of conservative causes, has died. Read more

Producer Jon Peters, whose films include “Batman” and “Superman Returns,” has been sued by three former employees – one a woman who alleges that she was sexually harassed by Peters and the other a couple who said the producer wanted the wife to have an abortion or he would fire her husband. Read more

Nate Parker was an All-American wrestler at the University of Oklahoma pursuing a career in computer programming several years ago when a friend, who was trying to launch a modeling career, asked Parker to accompany her to Dallas. Read more

In Denzel Washington’s new film “The Great Debaters,” we are introduced to a young woman who is poised, talented and determined to succeed as a college debater against a field of men, but who knows that to accomplish that goal she will have to overcome not only prejudice based on race, but also based on gender. Read more

Call it a blessing. Read more

The iPod generation – led by three young stars of the period film “Atonement” – will be well represented among the nominees parading along the red carpet at the Golden Globes in January. Read more

Freddie Fields, a onetime vaudeville booker who became a high-flying Hollywood talent agent for such stars as Judy Garland, Henry Fonda, Steve McQueen and Barbra Streisand, and who later headed production at MGM and United Artists studios, has died. Read more

As Homayoun Ershadi tells it, he was an architect in Iran driving down the streets of the capital, Tehran, one day when he pulled up to a red light and heard someone tapping on his car window. Read more