Richard Phillips

''Stylishly late'' won`t play anymore with Zubin Mehta. Annoyed by the noise of tardy concertgoers in Mexico City, the glowering conductor lowered his baton a few measures into Beethoven`s ''Leonore''...

If Edgar Whisenant is correct, you have 30 days in which to clean up your act. Oh yes, it`s Rapture time again. The retired NASA engineer and doomsday prophet says...

Hard labor just isn`t in Athena Chisholm`s maternity makeup. Either that, or husband Tom is a conspicuously slow driver. Two years ago, Chisholm, of Merrimack, N.H., was en route to...

Somebody in Atlanta garbled the message. Playboy actor Rob Lowe actually wasn`t sentenced to 2 years of community service to escape criminal prosecution for hotel antics with a juvenile girl....

Crossing the ex`s is supposed to be Johnny Carson`s bailiwick, but now sidekick Ed McMahon is fit to be untied, too. McMahon, 66, has filed for divorce from his second...

A snappy new record is in the groove in Washington, especially among Democrats. Titled ''The Man Who Would B.B. King,'' it`s a musical satire of the Republican Party`s play caller,...

No wonder so many pols have their hands out. According to Vogue magazine, Washington`s most powerful women each routinely spend at least 160 hours and $8,440 annually on assorted cuts,...

The itch to ''go West, young man'' has struck J. Danforth Quayle III and his wife, Marilyn. The vice president, who hails from from Indiana but hasn`t owned property there...

Okay, how bad is Hollywood? Ask rock musician Frank Zappa, who lives there but hates it. ''It`s a pretty ugly town. Every time I leave and come back there`s another...

No, the imprisoned godfather of soul hasn`t checked out of prison-just out of minimum security. Caught violating the rules, Brown, 56, has been bounced to tougher confines after guards found...