Richard Phillips

Stephen King just can`t close the book on mayhem. The best-selling author was explaining his fondness for the macabre in Portland, Maine. ''People want to know why I write such...

London`s entertainment newsies are swooning with anticipation over the announcement that two Redgrave sisters will share the stage in ''Three Sisters.'' The autumn performances of Chekhov`s play would mark the...

Despite the assassination of her father in 1968, Robert F. Kennedy`s daughter Mary Kerry remains opposed to the death penalty. ''I felt that way even when I was 8 and...

American beauty queen Gretchen Polhemus isn`t slipping back into private life without complaint. The ex-Miss USA, who readily surrendered her crown Friday to Carole Gist, afterward lashed out against KGB-style...

Pope John Paul II has joined the celebrity trend to voice mail. Unlike the how-di-doos from folks such as Jose Canseco and Buster Douglas, however, the pope`s daily telephone messages...

Britain`s richest man runs in fast company, but he can`t set the pace for awhile. The Duke of Westminster, Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor, 38, has lost driving privileges for two weeks...

And how are we today, darlink? Zsa Zsa Gabor, doing what comes naturally, is satisfying the ''community-service'' portion of her cop-slapping jail sentence by chatting with patients at celebrity-oriented Cedars...

Frank Lorenzo has been trying to lie low since flexing his management muscle at Eastern Airlines. But M remembers him. In an issue devoted to global ''Wild Men,'' the magazine...

''It seems that everything that could have gone wrong did,'' conceded Amtrak spokeswoman Renee Banks. First an air compressor pooped out on Amtrak 581 from San Diego to Los Angeles....

In honor of Team Trump, now engaged in a full-court press with legal mercenaries, flacks and gossip columnists, this space is being renamed temporarily. ''Noisemakers'' arguably rings truer, anyhow. IVANA`S...