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Wobegon Boy By Garrison Keillor Viking, 305 pages, $24.95 It has been a quiet decade in Lake Wobegon. Too quiet. Happily, America's tallest radio comedian, Garrison Keillor, has penned "Wobegon...

The average child between the ages of 2 and 11 watched 312 1/2 hours of children's programing during the 1996-97 TV season, according to a new survey. That's up from...

Language on prime-time television is saltier than ever and showing no signs of calming down. Today, amid scenes of partial nudity and violence, viewers are hearing words that would have...

More than 50 years later, Buffalo Bob Smith and Howdy Doody are still together. "I'm sitting just 20 feet from him," Smith said from his home in Flat Rock, N.C....

Warning! Warning! Danger, Will Robinson! That does not compute! Ask most people younger than 45 or so to identify the source of those phrases, and, because of their familiarity with...

Their relationship scandalized New York six years ago, but on Tuesday, Oscar-winning director Woody Allen married his longtime lover, Soon-Yi Previn, in Italy. The 62-year-old film icon wed Previn, 27--the...

The dust of the fall-season launch has settled, and the networks are shuffling their lineups in anticipation of next month's launch of TV's midseason. It's a perfect time, in other...

When the first Hanukkah candle is lighted on Tuesday evening, the glow of light is meant to celebrate an ancient victory for freedom and remind Jews of a miracle with...

It pits the dying against the dying, the suffering against the suffering. On the front lines, some call it the disease wars -- the growing, discomforting competition among advocates for...

A documentary about the slave trade premiering Thursday on cable's History Channel was produced, it turns out, by the same company responsible for a new movie about an 1839 shipboard...