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A weekly commentary by CBS News Correspondent Andy Rooney: You might not think that those of us who do 60 Minutes set out every day to do good deeds and root out evil, and I don't want to sound ...

Bumptious theorising: why does J D Salinger inspire such blind devotion? While Rakoff’s memoir is full of fabrication and thin on revelation, Thomas Beller’s biography is free of insight and ...

Any picture book that a parent can read to kids in a few short minutes, no matter how delightful, requires fattening up to become a film. Sometimes Hollywood’s crassness kills the charm.

In "She's Beautiful When She's Angry," filmmaker Mary Dore chronicles the bumptious, bellicose, often boisterously funny beginnings of second-wave feminism, which started as an offshoot of the ...

Physically beefy and psychologically combative and determined, in many ways Townshend was a figure resembling the legendary John Bull: full of bumptious self-confidence and an unceasing will to ...

Broadbent plays a bumptious oddball who endeavors to steal a Goya painting in the name of injustice in Roger Michell's warmhearted comedy. “The Duke” is a very British heist movie, a true ...