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The new and improved Louis Gossett Jr. is just warming up to the topic of diet and dropping weight when the door to his hotel room opens. ''We`re in trouble...

Back in 1983, John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band supplied the music that helped make a hit movie out of the good-natured ''Eddie and the Cruisers.'' For Cafferty, an...

Their clickety-clacks once filled steno pools around the city, a kind of reassuring elevator music for generations of office workers. Today, in most places where paper is still shuffled, the...

`I haven`t done this since `Police Story` and `The Onion Field,` '' said Joseph Wambaugh, the Los Angeles ex-cop turned author, who`ll have a hand in reviving the anthology format...

If Mike Sargent has anything to say about it, Luke Skywalker will have competition battling bad guys in space. Sargent is a writer who has created James Scott, a black...

Sometimes the movies don`t tell the full story. With the continued success of Clint Eastwood`s ''Unforgiven,'' consider: - James Butler (Wild Bill) Hickok: He was holding aces and eights when...

A Long Island, N.Y., firm is peddling ''sex maniac'' trading card sets featuring Mike Tyson, Elvis Presley, Catherine the Great and others, described as ''the most twisted and bizarre sex...

The voice is all pinched vowels and twanging consonants. Lisa Stansfield speaking is nothing like Lisa Stansfield singing. The sensual coos and frisky moans that have made her vocals the...

Amid the missile-powered penguins and scissor kicks blazing across movie screens this summer, Hollywood has also resorted to its kindler, gentler staple to please crowds: romance. It`s such a many-splendored...

Bruce Springsteen didn`t wait long to put his past behind him at the opening date of his first U.S. tour in four years. Kicking off Thursday night`s sold-out Meadowlands show...