Carolyn McGuire

If you missed ''Sweeney Todd'' on Broadway or when the Tony award-winning 1979 musical came to Chicago in 1981 (or on an earlier TV airing), you get another chance at...

It`s far from ''This Is Spinal Tap,'' but ''Reaching for the Stars'' takes up the same subject--though on a more serious note--of what life is like inside a musical group....

Talk about flights of fancy. Several years ago magazine mogul Malcolm Forbes, friends and a TV crew made a 2,000-mile tour through China on five motorcycles. On occasion, Forbes, 65,...

Jessica Lange and Tommy Lee Jones head an all-star cast in Monday`s TV version of Tennessee Williams` Pulitzer Prize-winning play, ''Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.'' The 2 1/2-hour presentation,...

NBC`s ''The Facts of Life'' will get a new star this fall. George Clooney (Rosemary`s nephew) joins the predominately female cast as a carpenter who builds a new food shop...

According to a documentary, ''Battered Wives, Shattered Lives,'' more than 1.8 million women are victims of wife beating with about 40 percent of serious injuries treated in a hospital emergency...

In the early 1900s, thousands of Chinese people lived on Angel Island near San Francisco, waiting for U.S. immigration authorities to clear their entry into America. Genny Lim, a Chinese-American...

Michael Nesmith returns with his fast-paced, comedy/music show done in the video style, ''Michael Nesmith in Television Parts'' at 7 p.m. Friday on NBC-Ch. 5. Last March NBC gave Nesmith...

Last December, several dozen military, news media and legal experts met for two days at Princeton University to discuss military operations with the press. The men and women took up...

Conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt and the Concentus Musicus return with the rich sounds of Baroque music found in ''Bach`s Brandenburg Concertos: The Virtuoso Concerto'' at 9 p.m. Friday on WTTW-Ch. 11....