Madness

Shields, Brooks on Presidential Effects on Gas Prices, March Madness Mascots

An inside look at March Madness and the multi-billion dollar business of the NCAA.

The Doubleheader: On Hawaii, March Madness and POTUS Sports

With TV rights alone worth $10.8 billion over 14 years, should NCAA players get paid?

These days everyone's in the money in big-time college sports -- so why not the athletes?

Tips from behavioral psychology.

Nov. 2: NBC's Jamie Gangel takes a look back at some of the high points and low points of the 2010 midterm election.

Maximilian Cohen (Sean Gullette) is on the verge of the most important discovery of his life. For the past ten years, he has been attempting to decode the numerical pattern beneath the ultimate system of ordered chaos - the stock market. As Max verges on a solution, chaos is swallowing the world around him. Pursued by an aggressive Wall Street firm set on financial domination and a Kaballah sect intent on unlocking the secrets behind their ancient holy texts, Max races to crack the code, hoping to defy the madness that looms before him. Instead, he uncovers a secret for which everyone is willing to kill.

Jessica Lange delivers the performance of her career as Frances Farmer, the notorious 1930s movie star whose impassioned opinions and outspoken behavior created scandal throughout the industry. But when she was betrayed by the studio system and committed to a mental asylum by her domineering mother, Frances descended into a madness that shocked the world.

On his way to Las Vegas to pay back some bookies who have already taken two of his fingers for late payment, small-time hustler Bobby Cooper (Sean Penn) thinks he'll soon be in the clear. Unfortunately, Bobby's car breaks down, which leads him into the small and very strange town of Superior, Arizona. With no money, Bobby finds himself trapped there with no way to get his car fixed. When Bobby meets up with the beautiful Grace McKenna (Jennifer Lopez) and her powerful husband Jake (Nick Nolte), the goal of fleeing town vanishes in the need of simply surviving. Jake offers Bobby money to kill Grace. Then Grace asks Bobby to get rid of Jake. Both offer him a way out-kill one for the other. The stakes are high as Bobby is locked into a deadly game of lust, madness and money.

Bill Maher surprises a Political Science class at UCLA, squares off with its Republican professor and discusses everything from the GOP sugar daddy, primary madness, Mormon magic undies and more. Watch the feature and bonus clips below.

Weyburn: An Archaeology of Madness -- Dare to be committed to the Weyburn Mental Hospital. Explore the abandoned institution where the word psychedelic was coined as artists, performers, former staff and patients bring to life the fascinating and stigmatized history of the Weyburn Mental Hospital. The documentary is a taste of the madness and institutional organization that was so much a part of life for the patients and staff. Montages created from the compelling sights and sounds of the deteriorating building and the work of the artists and performers provide a sense of the off kilter environment of the institution during its working days. When the show is over you can leave but you may never escape the experience of Weyburn An Archaeology of Madness.