Knight-Ridder Tribune

Bruce Hornsby has a unique excuse to avoid diaper duty: ''Honey, I`ve got to go on tour with the Dead.'' The Grateful Dead, that is. For two years, keyboardist Hornsby...

Some upcoming movie titles, as reported by Variety: ''Neurotic Cabaret,'' ''The Good, the Bad and the Subhumanoid,'' ''A Woman, Her Men and Her Futon.'' And this Thelma & Louise Memorial...

C. Everett Koop, he of the Lincolnesque beard, earned widespread acclaim as surgeon general for his Lincolnesque integrity. Koop set the standard for government service in the 1980s. Although not...

Song censorship hasn`t yet become a presidential campaign issue, but the music industry isn`t taking any chances. Hence the release of ''Rock the First'' (meaning 1st Amendment), a six-CD series...

It`s never too early to think about summer, particularly since promoters are scrambling even now to fill their arenas and theaters. How good a season will it be? That depends...

Trust the Irish to take a true story and spin it into an enchanting tall tale. The film ''Hear My Song'' is about the legendary Irish tenor Josef Locke. In...

''My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand ''To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.'' - Romeo meets Juliet, ''Romeo and Juliet,'' William Shakespeare ''What if I was to...

Despite all the headlines about the tremendous holiday sales of Disney`s ''Fantasia,'' the movie still hasn`t surpassed ''E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial'' as the best-selling cassette of all time, according to the...

The way Martin Amis approaches World War II in ''Time`s Arrow,'' the Nazis were creating Jews rather than massacring them. That is among the results when history is run in...

The number of people who actually buy designer clothing is low. How many people, after all, can afford to spend $1,000 on a jacket? We`re talking wool crepe here, not...