Ernest Hemingway was and is arguably the most masculine of American writers. From the little boy who defiantly proclaimed he was “’fraid of nothing” to the young man impatient to join a war ...

Hemingway embraced the full spectrum of emotion, from ecstasy to suicidal despair, and the people closest to him sometimes paid dearly for loving him. Did he hate women? Individually, probably ...

But for every ‘Hemingway’ there's a ‘Hot Girls Wanted’ Burns is the Spielberg of the documentary, mostly for better and sometimes for worse. The Burns formula was perfected 30 years ago ...