Doctor Zhivago is an extraordinary novel ... Of Jewish descent, he was born in 1890 in a red brick house on Moscow’s fashionable Arsenal Street. “Borya” Pasternak was the eldest of four ...

Robert Bolt, whose screenplay is itself a 224-page book just published by Random House, faced a major challenge in adaptation. The Pasternak novel turns on an introspective medic-poet who ...

And from here Dr. Zhivago begins a long downhill trek, surprising us about every ten minutes when it can't get worse but does. Guiness portrays a combination hero's-brother-in-law-secret-policeman ...