The Committee Room wishes you a Happy National Classic Movie Day! To celebrate classic movies, TCR is taking part in the Five Stars Bl...

In the excellent new book  Into the Dark: The Hidden World of Film Noir, 1941 -1950    (Running Press, 2016) veteran author Mark A. Vieir...

In tribute to the late Debbie Reynolds, one of the last stars produced by the old Hollywood studio system,  The Committee Room takes a ...

Superagent Sue Mengers. Do any other three words better conjure up the enormous energy, creativity and free-wheeling social life of Hollyw...

"What is an agent?" asks Stevie Phillips in her recently published memoir Judy + Liza + Robert + Freddie + David + Sue + ME   (...

In Audrey and Bill: A Romantic Biography of Audrey Hepburn and William Holden , just published by   Running Press , veteran film journalis...

In Life Could Be Verse , a brief and often affecting volume, actor Kirk Douglas, who recently turned ninety-eight years old, shares poems ...

In the recently published Watch Me: A Memoir , actress and sometime director Anjelica Huston picks up where she left off in her first book...

At the opening of his superb new biography Vanessa: The Life of Vanessa Redgrave , author Dan Callahan takes readers back to 1997 when he...

Vivien Leigh: An Intimate Portrait by Kendra Bean. This autumn marks the seventy-fifth anniversary of the release of what is by most es...

The Committee Room is pleased to announce that books pertaining to film, theater, and television are now our focus. This isn't enti...

David Thomson has been writing and publishing books, essays, and reviews on film for nearly half a century. His quirky, highly subjective ...