Kansas City Star

Movies can make our pulses race, our palms sweat, our hair stand on end and our stomachs spasm in laughter. Increasingly, though, they're making our posteriors numb. Movies are getting...

I am happy to report that my favorite locomotive is doing just fine, thank you. And so is his creator. In fact, "Thomas the Tank Engine" has a new video...

The skinny on menswear: skinny When Green Bay Packers' Desmond Howard, the Super Bowl's Most Valuable Player, showed up on NBC's "Today Show" last Monday, his suit shoulders ran the...

It's an hour and 15 minutes until show time, and Tom Snyder is warming up his pipes by talking about his favorite subject: broadcasting. "The first night that we went...

If you're longing to look as sexy as Amanda on "Melrose Place," as professionally chic as Murphy Brown or, well, as changeable as Roseanne, have we got good news for...

They are more yellowed now than the Yellow Kid, and many are much older. They have survived the indignities of their time, from fire starting to fish wrapping, from puppy...

Self-improvement has taken a decidedly lusty turn in many of the nation's video rental stores of late. Consider, for example, some of these currently available titles: "Stripping for Your Lover."...

Coyote v. Acme By Ian Frazier Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 117 pages, $17 In these litigious times, Case No. B19294, filed in U.S. District Court, Southwestern District, was bound to...

Pop music is a fickle business. In a world of shifting musical styles and tastes, an artist can go from ubiquity to near-oblivion in a heartbeat. That's what happened to...

Blake By Peter Ackroyd Knopf, 399 pages, $35 The nature of artistic fame is such that a few masterpieces with the appearance of "divine inspiration" may count for more than...