I see in the paper that my old friend Barney, the purple dinosaur, has had his show listed among the worst ever (Tempo, Oct. 26). Too long have I heard parents say, “I would never let my kids watch ...

Paul Giamatti stars in “Barney’s Version,” the adaptation of the 1997 novel by the late Canadian writer Mordecai Richler, who is probably best known in this country for the movie “The Apprenticeship ...