Three years ago, Americans woke up to the nation's heroin crisis when one of our greatest actors died. The crisis hasn't gone away.

While up to fifty bags of heroin were found in the recently deceased actors apartment, police are speculating that a deadly strain of the drug may have been involved. Deaths in New York and Pennsylvania are linked to heroin containing fentanyl.

When PBS announced their American Masters documentary on Mike Nichols, I was relieved. Like so many admirers of his work, I grieved when he died in November of 2014.

Ever wonder what your life might have been like if you dropped out of high school? Well, for actor Michael Shannon, it put him on the path to being nominated for an Academy Award by the age of 34.

In Charlie Kaufman's Synecdoche, New York (2008), Philip Seymour Hoffman plays a character who is suffering from a number of symptoms, but it soon becomes apparent that the real culprit is existence.