Had Boris Pasternak never written his great novel, and had it never been made into an Oscar-winning film, would I even be living in Russia? Julie Christie and Omar Sharif in 'Doctor Zhivago,' 1965.

BACK IN the days of the Mississippi riverboats the gamblers, according to legend, won and lost plantations with no more emotion than that involved in flicking a cigar ash. Today a man with such cold ...

“Doctor Zhivago” (David Lean, 1965) at 1:30 p.m. on TCM. In this great epic movie romance set in pre- and post-revolutionary Russia, we spend most of the movie waiting for the central couple to come ...