Emma Thompson sails straight for an Emmy tonight on the good ship HBO. Her dazzling performance in Wit is a tour de force. Margaret Edson's wise and wonderfully moving Pulitzer Prize-winning play ...

Birth and death are both hard work, says actress Emma Thompson, who had just had her baby daughter when she started shooting the HBO movie "Wit." ...

It isn't easy convincing people that they can't afford to miss a movie that is likely to leave them shaken and tearful: "Oh, you simply must see the latest thing in traumatic ordeals . . ." But "Wit," ...