This is how we love to see our Ripley: sweat-soaked, eyes wide with fear and excitement, cradling a master blaster as the word "bitch" emanates from her lips. Who is...
Any Given Day By Jessie Lee Brown Foveaux Warner Books, 287 pages, $19.95 It's probable that Jessie Lee Brown Foveaux is the first 98-year-old great-great-grandmother ever to be paid $1...
The Good, the Bad & the Very Ugly By Sondra Locke Morrow, 371 pages, $25 The problem with Sondra Locke's autobiography, "The Good, the Bad & the Very Ugly," is...
She is, perhaps, the most recognizable African-American on daytime television--next to Oprah, of course--but that never quite translated into a ticket to Hollywood for actress Debbi Morgan. Soap stars, after...
It might as well have been an atomic bomb detonating in the middle of the desert. Arizona owner Jerry Colangelo, who somehow once again got his way to be the...
Comanche Moon By Larry McMurtry Simon & Schuster, 752 pages, $28.50 The most celebrated writers of Westerns -- Ernest Haycox, Zane Grey, Max Brand and Louis L'Amour above all --...
Remember 1994! The NBA would prefer that you did not. In '94, Michael Jordan was off playing baseball and the NBA took a demotion. It was just another major sports...
Broadcast TV is complaining that cable has an unfair advantage in the Emmy competition in the field of movies and mini-series. They can complain all they want; what they should...
Carol Leifer has her own sitcom. She's a writer. She's executive producer. She's a tasty dessert topping. OK, so we're kidding about the last one. But the star of the...
The once-teeming shopping complex at Rockefeller Center has become a ghost town with dozens of stores sitting empty as the crucial Christmas season approaches. More than a third of the...