Richard Phillips

Jessica Hahn is getting down and dirty again. Or close to it. A onetime church secretary who became a troublesome revelation for evangelist Jim Bakker and, later, a Playboy model...

A man conspicuously given to excess, Marlon Brando, has asked the medical profession for help losing weight. Well, sort of. According to columnist Liz Smith, the portly semiactor has gone...

A new maestro is taking over at the Los Angeles Philharmonic. It`s Finnish conductor and composer Esa-Pekka Salonen, 31. Coming by way of Swedish Radio Symphony, Salonen may choose to...

Tabloid sleaze continues to boomerang delightfully, at least in Britain. Clint Eastwood is the latest celebrity victim to benefit from sex-and-scandal excesses. He`s getting ''a large sum in damages'' from...

If one can trust news leaks, a ticklish career change is imminent for James A. Bruton III, which portends hysterical gasping from a certain New York courtroom. Bruton reportedly is...

Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul, is showing her beneficent side. Franklin has offered a benefit concert to help Detroit raise $1.25 million needed to restore music instruction in public...

A motorcycle cop yelled, ''Pull over, buddy,'' as soon as he noticed the expired tag on the Volkswagen. Michael Ray Schantz instead sped off. Many blocks later, with six Miami...

Carl Rowen, the syndicated columnist whose advocacy of gun control backfired last year when he shot a trespasser, has lost another round to the gun lobby. His lawyer son, Carl...

Next, please: Saying ''I do'' over the weekend was ''Fear of Flying'' author Erica Jong and New York lawyer Kenneth David Burrows. The marriage is his second-and her third. SLIP...

Now you see it, now you don`t: A happy bachelor just two days ago, ex-President Jaime Lusinchi of Venezuala is not ecstatic today. Indeed, Lusinchi is not even an ex-husband,...