Richard Phillips

Sticks and stones may break her bones, but names, well, Fergie says they hurt, too. ''I was called a parasite the other day by some student,'' moaned the wounded Duchess...

As forgers go, Konrad Kujau was a name to remember. Creator of the colorful-but-phony ''Hitler diaries'' in 1985 that flimflammed Stern magazine, Kujau spent two years in a West German...

Remember those cave drawings in the Bahamas that depict Portuguese sailors beating Christopher Columbus to the New World by 40 years? ''They look awfully fresh. Real, real fresh,'' sneered anthropologist...

He tiptoed in from obscurity, so Tiny Tim`s quick exit from New York`s mayoral race caused a quiet wake. Calling it quits over a few beers, the squeaky singer of...

Rev. Matthew McInerney called it the ''11th Commandment.'' Annoyed at neighbors whose parked cars chronically interfered with church funerals, Rev. McInerney decided to curb the practice with a homemade street...

Jack Benny got away with it. So did Zsa Zsa. But not Loyce Crouch. Someone blabbed that she who claimed to be 49 actually is 59. Quick as you can...

The names are fuzzy, but Pittsburgh Mayor Sophie Masloff knows who she means. ''I don`t want those Deadenders ever back again,'' ordered Masloff, 71, after rowdyism disrupted a Grateful Dead...

''Reach out and touch someone'' seemed like a good idea. So New York socialite Ethel Scull, furious at her stockbroker after the crash of `87, telephoned to complain. And called....

Some red-faced book publishers in China are rapidly being educated in proper bindings, probably in jail. Seems that thousands of new grammar-school texts were inadvertently mixed with pages from another...

Mandy Smith was only 13 when news of her romance with middle-aged Rolling Stone bass guitarist Bill Wyman surfaced. ''Scandalous!'' jeered the British tabloid press, whose screams chased the love...