ASSEMBLING CRYSTAL’S OSCAR SPOOF NO EASY TASK
At the end of January, seven writers visited Billy Crystal's house for their first meeting about how Crystal would open the Oscars. Less than two months later, at the Academy...
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ANNE RICE PAYS A VISIT TO ROMAN TIMES
Pandora By Anne Rice Knopf, 353 pages, $19.95 Happily, Anne Rice's "Pandora," her first in the "New Tales of the Vampires" series, is not nearly as erotic as "The Vampire...
DON’T BLAME THE MEDIA FOR ARKANSAS TRAGEDY
Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee might well have been on the air spewing anti-media blather March 24, even before ambulances left Jonesboro's Westside Middle School, scene of the tragic and troubling...
THE UNITED STATES FINALLY DISCOVERS AFRICA
Africa, it seems, is the center of the universe, what with the pope and President Clinton making visits this week. Africa has more often been the backdrop for somebody else's...
A REVEALING GLIMPSE INTO ALEXANDER CALDER’S WORLD AND ART
Calder at Home: The Joyous Environment of Alexander Calder By Pedro E. Guerrero Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 160 pages, $40 Alexander Calder, one of the most joyful, playful artists of...
HOW CBS PAINTED ITSELF INTO A CORNER
The joke going around CBS right after the premiere of "Four Corners," the Ann-Margret serial drama that premiered last month to embarrassingly low ratings, was that "they should have called...
SEINFELD’S HBO SHOW WILL AID CHARITY
When Jerry Seinfeld hits the stage this summer for his live HBO standup concert, it'll be a repeat -- of sorts. He'll be doing routines he has done many times...
A FATHER-DAUGHTER TALE WITH CHARM, WITHOUT RANCOR
Dreamtime Alice By Mandy Sayer Ballantine Books, $24.95 When today's novelists write about their parents, the result is usually a literary temper tantrum or a whine. Such chronicles are typically...
DUKE, N. CAROLINA STAGGER INTO FINAL
Duke may be the top-ranked team in the country, but the Blue Devils have not been to the ACC championship game since 1992, when they defeated North Carolina by 20...
ORIOLES HOPE TO AVOID EXTINCTION
They were the best team in the American League last year, denied a World Series only by a couple of hanging sliders from Armando Benitez. So close and yet, four...