The legendary actor tells Katty Kay that his parents would have much rather he became an accountant or insurance broker, but finally came around when they saw him perform on stage. With a shelf ...

It didn’t matter that Sejanus was a better administrator than Tiberius Caesar, or that Thomas Cromwell understood court politics better than Henry VIII. Even an inattentive leader will ...

Many of those stories end the same way: Overconfidence, overstepping and overthrow. It didn’t matter that Sejanus was a better administrator than Tiberius Caesar, or that Thomas Cromwell understood ...

Historical epics used to be one of the top genres in Hollywood. It seems like every year there was a “Ben Hur” or a “Cleopatra” or a “The 10 Commandments.” Then, that genre went by the ...