Scorsese is an intense man, whose combination of rapid-fire sentences and long, thoughtful silences, brow furrowed, bushy ...

GETTING caught in a snowstorm while ill and losing his way on a trail alone were among the mishaps that could have prompted septuagenarian Leonard Leet to hang up his hiking boots for good.

Talking once with the acerbic polemicist Gore Vidal about growing up on the streets of New York’s Little Italy in the 1940s ...