Billy Hayes, author of the autobiographical book “Midnight Express,” on which the film directed by Alan Parker and written by Oliver Stone was based, disagreed with several of the assertions made in ...

Returning to New York directly from a sold out run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Billy Hayes recounts the riveting true story of his arrest in Istanbul in 1970 for smuggling hash, his 5 years in ...

Many movies have a hidden message to impart to audiences, some straightforward, some more subtle. The message of "Midnight Express," for example, is that unless you'd like to spend the best years of ...