Leon Hale was born May 30, 1921, in Stephenville. Following 32 years writing a daily column for the Houston Post, he moved to the Chronicle in 1985 where he wrote a column of personal commentary for ...

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Discover What’s Streaming On: If you didn’t get a chance to see Olivia Colman and Benedict Cumberbatch duke it out as a feuding married couple on the big screen, good news: The Roses movie is coming ...

He was, and many admirable things besides. But he was also the defense secretary from 1961 to 1968 and the architect of what would come to be known as “McNamara’s War” in Vietnam. As Philip and ...

“The Roses,” released Aug 29 and directed by Jay Roach, follows the story of Ivy (Olivia Coleman) and Theo (Benedict Cumberbatch) through their marriage and its messy and chaotic deterioration. The ...

Olivia Colman and Benedict Cumberbatch are fine but miscast in this unnecessary remake of THE ROSES. Jaap Buitendijk/Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures Remakes are odious, even when they’re nothing more ...

It’s a reasonably different movie, but “The Roses” — an adaptation of Warren Adler’s 1981 novel, “The War of the Roses,” that hits theaters this week — has the same problem that plagues the 1989 film ...