All roads in the Brazilian film industry seem to lead to lead to Marcelo Rubens Paiva, and he considers many of the people he has worked with in the last 40-odd years of his life to be family. By ...

MARCELO RUBENS PAIVA: I’ve written about 10 books and some plays, and 50% of them have been adapted for a movie. I don’t know why, but the way I write is attractive for people involved in cinema.

NEW YORK -- Out of the 115 works in "Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640): The Drawings," at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, all but a handful are fantastic. That's an amazing batting average.

A new book paints Rubens as a crafty negotiator of peace among warring European kings. ... Today, Peter Paul Rubens is best remembered as the Old Master with a penchant for fleshy, ...

MARCELO RUBENS PAIVA: I've written about 10 books and some plays, and 50% of them have been adapted for a movie. I don't know why, but the way I write is attractive for people involved in cinema ...