Richard Phillips

No matter how you slice it. . . . Movie tough guy Mickey Rourke obviously is unafraid of knives. He reportedly is recovering from liposuction and plastic surgery on his...

It was billed as a ''clean and sober'' 4th of July concert. In Rapid City, S.D., Kris Kristofferson, Willie Nelson, Jackson Browne, Neil Young and John Denver donated their performing...

They don`t call him ''Pellet Gun'' Krause for nothing. Rick Krause, a teacher from Sparta, Mich., has won Michigan`s 16th annual cherry pit-spitting contest in Eau Claire-by puckering up and...

It`s happened again. Just two days after a Colombian woman was busted in Houston`s airport trying to smuggle 11 pounds of cocaine sewn in her girdle, customs agents there found...

Imagine watching ''Rain Man'' without that fearful airport confrontation between Charlie Babbit and his autistic savant brother, played by Dustin Hoffman. Now fly the friendly skies of 15 fearful airline...

Mikhail Baryshnikov . . . a Hollywood regular? One week after catching the dance world flatfooted by announcing his departure next summer from the American Ballet Theater, Baryshnikov reportedly has...

Anthony Perkins had the right hotel but the wrong joint. A British judge fined the 57-year-old star of ''Psycho'' and its sequel $310 for mailing marijuana to his hotel in...

As sporting propositions go, it was nun too shabby: In Trim, Ireland, onlookers hooted and cheered at the International Nun Run, a 1-mile pony race on the banks of the...

Golly, I was mistaken Detroit`s stonewalling mayor finally has agreed to play by the numbers. Trapped by blood tests in a paternity suit, 71-year-old bachelor Coleman Young has filed legal...

A voice from the past has a new label for Motown Records: The Deadbeats. Martha Reeves, lead singer of Martha and the Vandellas, is suing the L.A.-based company for allegedly...