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Bridget Jones's Diary By Helen Fielding Viking, 271 pages, $22.95 Meet Bridget Jones. If you're a single woman in her 30s who has ever obsessively checked an answering machine, had...

Fifty years ago, Milton Berle stepped in front of the cameras as the first guest host of a summertime NBC series called "Texaco Star Theater" -- and changed the face...

Nobody in major-league baseball knows Hideo Nomo better than Dave Wallace. And not even Wallace knows for sure just what the Mets acquired when they traded for Nomo late Thursday...

Jerry Seinfeld's somewhat skewed take on life in New York ended its run on NBC, but city folk needn't worry -- the show's departure in no way means Gotham will...

Two-and-a-half years ago, Perna Szabunio, then 38, was home in Queens, puttering around, doing housework. "I started to get chest pain, but I thought I was having an allergy-type thing....

Australian Steve Irwin is an adventurous fellow. Based on his actions, many would say he's crazy. Consider this: On any given day Irwin, a k a "The Crocodile Hunter," might...

My Secret Mother Lorna Moon By Richard de Mille Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 311 pages, $25 `My Secret Mother Lorna Moon" is a lovely memoir made particularly so in that...

When it comes to entertainment, there isn't a whole lot Maria Conchita Alonso has left to accomplish. Born in Cuba and raised in Venezuela, Alonso has been a teen beauty...

With all the hoo-ha about "Ellen" -- the controversy, the cancellation, the unaired episodes -- another ABC series seems to have been forgotten. It, too, was controversial, canceled and left...

The Everlasting Story of Nory By Nicholson Baker Random House, 226 pages, $22 Nine-year-old Eleanor Winslow (Nory for short) is an observant American child living in England, where there is...