Clifford Terry

Right off, ''Bluegrass'' (8 p.m. Sunday and Monday on CBS-Ch. 2) tosses in an attempted rape and a raging fire. Which means that, despite its title, ''Bluegrass,'' unhappily, is not...

Eric Cord is a graduate student in an American university, but in all his years on campus, he has never come across such ''mooning'' as this. It seems that one...

Delta Burke is sitting in the fabled Polo Lounge, defending the remainder of her club sandwich (''I`m going to play with it a little more'') from an overly eager busboy,...

Based on J.B. Priestley`s 1965 loss-of-innocence novel about the pre-World War I, two-shows-a-day British music halls, ''Lost Empires'' is a strange brew, a mixture of on-stage fantasy and gaiety--jugglers and...

Rex Fortescue, a prominent London financier whose business reportedly is on the verge of bankruptcy, is hardly the Willy Loman ideal: Obviously not well-liked, he is not even slightly liked....

''Sha-ZAM!,'' as Gomer Pyle might exclaim, working that lumpy jaw. Suddenly, `50s and `60s television is back in style. Gol-oll-lee and double-doggone, Gomer ought to know. Chances are, he`s been...

Discussing the most famous river voyage in American fiction, Ernest Hemingway once remarked that ''all modern literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called `Huckleberry Finn.''` Lionel Trilling said...

Earlier this month, the inevitable happened, as the folks at Disney came out in public with their first R-rated feature film--the studio going the way of the wallet instead of...

`Into Thin Air,'' a made-for-television movie to be shown at 8 p.m. Tuesday on CBS-Ch. 2, is a taut, grim account based on a true story that involves undoubtedly every...

Mary Lou and Larry Weisman are an upper-middle-class couple who have good jobs, a lovely home in Connecticut and a healthy son. They also have another son who is dying...