Richard Phillips

The price was right for author Gabriel Garcia Marquez, but he refused to sell out. Now movie producer Richard Roth has sued Garcia Marquez in L.A., claiming that the author...

If Morocco`s King Hassan feels an icy wind blowing across the Sahara, it must be the collective cold shoulder of Islamic fundamentalists. Hassan, interviewed on French television, rejected notions of...

Sometimes hometown boys don`t succeed as much as they think. In Shakopee, Minn., success-story Maurice Stans suggested a museum to house memorabilia from his years in politics. Indeed, Stans offered...

Amid Atlanta`s 50th anniversary hoopla over ''Gone With the Wind'' comes news that the Soviet Union has made piece-of-the-action overtures for the 1939 Civil War saga. The piece initiative portends...

It`s a girl for NBC News personality Maria Shriver, 33, and Tinseltown muscleman Arnold Schwarzenegger, 41. It happened early Wednesday in L.A., and Dad was in the hospital delivery room....

Frankly speaking, Dan Quayle`s appointed successor in the U.S. Senate is making his mark-on the upper right-hand corners of 9 million envelopes. In just three months, Sen. Dan Coats (R.,...

How does one advise a modern saint to relax? Well, for the record, Mother Teresa, 79, has been advised to take it easy for a few days before taxing her...

Steven Spielberg and Amy Irving apparently needn`t worry about being parents without partners. Actress Irving (''Crossing Delancey'') and Brazilian director Bruno Barreto reportedly are expecting next spring, about the same...

The legal tribulations of Martin Scorsese over ''The Last Temptation of Christ'' are finito in Italy. An appeals court in Rome has upheld Scorsese`s acquittal on 1988 contempt-of-religion charges despite...

If a man`s home is his castle, Michael Landon can do with a moat. ''It`s not much fun to have to wipe off windows from people pressing their noses against...