NANCY TRAVIS STARS IN `ALMOST PERFECT’
America, meet Nancy Travis. OK, you might already know her from "Three Men and a Baby" and its sequel, "Three Men and a Little Lady." Or, you could've seen her...
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REDNECKS MEAN SUCCESS FOR FOXWORTHY
Comedian Jeff Foxworthy has made the world safe for rednecks. Foxworthy's hilarious trademark one-liners on TV, record, the printed page and the comedy stage, which begin, "You might be redneck...
TURNIPS TAKE TO A SWEET MAPLE GLAZE
In appreciation of the best part of a pancake, go hug a tree. Maple syrup is made from sugar maple tree sap, which is boiled into syrup or sugar. If...
`SATURDAY NIGHT’ RITUAL: THE BAND PLAYS ON
Their show has had a longer run than any Broadway production. But the pit band they lead performs only one night per week, and never, ever repeats itself. "Our function...
BUDDING ROCKER HAS MOMENT IN SPOTLIGHT
He was trying to reassure me. "On this show, the musical guest doesn't go on until a.m.," offered Peter Seligman, publicist for "Late Night With Conan O'Brien." "By then, there's...
INFIGHTING THREATENS ONCE-DOMINANT N.Y. FIRM
Leona Helmsley has won an important legal battle in her tooth- and-nail struggle for control of one of the city's most prominent commercial real estate companies. But the fight, which...
HE’S BA-ACK AND THIS TIME IT’S A SITCOM FOR THE TALK MAVEN
Morton Downey Jr. made a big noise in the late 1980s, when he gave birth to confrontational talk TV, the now-familiar format in which the host and the studio audience...
FOREIGNERS STILL COVET MANHATTAN SITES
Even as Mitsubishi abandoned Rockefeller Center, thus escaping from the shark tank of the city's real estate market, another foreign investor was preparing to jump into the pool. Hugo Mann,...
AFTER ALL ITS BIG PLANS, CBS DROPS BALL ON `CENTRAL PARK WEST’
"Central Park West," the most-hyped new TV series of the new prime-time season, is being flat-out clobbered: - Its hugely promoted CBS premiere on Sept. 13 ran last in its...
NYC TAX PLAN HAS BROAD IMPACT
When New York City's plan to revive downtown Manhattan was rescued recently, developer William Rudin breathed a sigh of relief. After all, Rudin and his family-one of the most prominent...