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`Captain Kangaroo" has been off the air for 2 1/2 years now, but the man behind the marsupial isn't ready to retire just yet. In fact, after playing the captain...

True, to many, Kim Fields Freeman will always be remembered as the pigtailed Tootie, who roller-skated through nearly a decade of prime time in "The Facts of Life." And that's...

Jake Fogelnest's bedroom is schwinging into the big time. For two years, the 16-year-old's private quarters have been the set for "SQUiRT TV," a public-access cable show in Manhattan. Now,...

The Trials of Maria Barbella By Idanna Pucci Four Walls Eight Windows, 338 pages, $22 `The Trials of Maria Barbella" tells of the first woman to be sentenced to the...

There are many ways to see the world, and a cruise -- be it on a river, lake or ocean -- is still one of the more interesting experiences. (Contact...

He started out as a Nasty Boy. Now, he's one of New York's Finest. Benjamin Bratt is in his first season of "Law & Order," playing Rey Curtis, the conservative...

Casa de Campo in the Dominican Republic is billed as the Caribbean's most complete resort, and that's still somewhat of an understatement. It might be the stairway to heaven. It...

Twenty years ago, Paddy Chayefsky wrote a film called "Network." It was a devastating satire about network TV in general--and, in particular, about a "prophet of the airwaves" named Howard...

Some say that everything they needed to know about life, they learned in kindergarten. Others of us say that everything we needed to know about life, we learned from "Leave...

There doesn't seem to be much Stephen Cannell can't do. The writer-producer and sometime actor has been a TV presence most of his adult life--"The Rockford Files," "Baretta," "Baa Baa...