This month, David Westin finally took the helm at ABC News, inheriting a division reeling from colliding egos and sagging ratings. But can a Jimmy Stewartish lawyer with no news experience restore the House that Roone Built?

Al Gore's choice of Connecticut senator Joe Lieberman for vice-president was about the only thing that went right with that campaign. Now Lieberman aims to make history at the top of the ticket -- if only Gore would step out of his way.

How did third-year med student Daniel Mason find time to write a stunning first novel set in Burma in 1886?

“I’m a slave to his success.” Filmmakers and writers root for their man.

A decade after her first hit novel, The Secret History, Donna Tartt is back.

For the Dem press corps, it’s bad food, sleazy motels, and close encounters with moose.

The first surprise in Warner LeRoy's will was that he left control of his restaurant empire to his 22-year-old daughter. The second: Along with Tavern on the Green and the Russian Tea Room, the legendary bon vivant left a mountain of debt. Can Jennifer LeRoy revive the foundering Tea Room -- her father's last extravagance -- before she loses it?

Veteran Robert Loggia alights in Soprano-land.

As Chicago moves into the home stretch of its Oscar campaign, Marty Richards recalls his life as a starstruck producer, his loving marriage to an American heiress who knew he was gay, and the 27 high-flying years (those Gin Lane parties!) it took for his Broadway hit to triumph on the silver screen.

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