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Interviews American actor Leonardo DiCaprio, star of the motion picture `Titanic.' DiCaprio's reputation of being constantly on the Hollywood party scene; Views on his public persona; Views about his maturity as an actor; Types of characters that he likes to play.

Features the band Sugar Ray and its frontman Mark McGrath. Insights on McGrath's personality; Details of how the band was founded; Band's major recordings and performances; Inside look on McGrath's family life and personal problems; Background on the other members of the band; Recording of the album `14:59.'

Profiles Noel and Liam Gallagher of the band Oasis. Their winning of Best Album at the Brit Awards for `(What's the Story) Morning Glory?'; Their debut album `Definitely Maybe'; Details of their music; Detail about the band including how they first got a record contract; Growing up in Manchester, England.

Features motion picture actor Ethan Hawke. Public perceptions of Hawke; Other occupations; Propensity to quote famous persons; Reputation with other actors.

Features an in-depth profile of actress Drew Barrymore, 20. Her amazing life history, which includes child abuse, alcoholism and drug addiction at the age of 13, attempted suicide, legal emancipation from her parents at 15, marriage, divorce, stardom, career extinction and, finally, stardom again; The success of `Boys on the Side'; Her latest role in `Mad Love'; How she became a star at age 7 for her role in `E.T.'; Career history; Biographical information; Personal life.

Features Ethan Hawke, a 24-year-old short film maker, writer, video director and artistic director of his own theater company and actor. His movie roles, `White Fang,' `Alive' and `Reality Bites'; His latest movie `Before Sunrise'; How he appeared opposite of River Phoenix in the little-seen children's adventure `Explorers,' at age 14.

Presents a 1994 year-in-review article devoted to significant pop culture happenings. People who were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame; Madonna's appearance on `Late Show With David Letterman'; Suicide of Kurt Cobain.

Focuses on actor Brad Pitt, who stars in `Interview with the Vampire,' and `Legends of the Fall.' Problems during `Interview with the Vampire'; The adventure of the author and Pitt; The trip to Scotland; His comments on his facial scars; His favorite novel, `All the Pretty Horses,' by Cormac McCarthy; Biographical information; Why he left college with only two credits left to earn; Career highlights.

Looks at new spring fashion as worn by member of the Irish band, the Cranberries. Presents a profile of the band. Singer Dolores O'Riordan; Recent release `Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We'; Drummer Feargal Lawlor; Guitarist Noel Hogan; Bassist Mike Hogan; Clothes by Dolce & Gabbana, Puma, Ferre, Converse, Giorgio Armani, Discus, Georgia Boot, Gucci, and others.

Focuses on the new faces that debuted in the music world in 1993. Belly; Snoop Doggy Dogg; Verve; Radiohead; Onyx; Morphine; Digable Planets; 4 Non Blondes; Stone Temple Pilots; Shaggy; The Cranberries; Counting Crows; Gin Blossoms; The Pharcyde; Details.

Profiles rock star, Sting. His new album `Ten Summoner's Tales'; His farm in Wiltshire, England; His family, wife Trudie Styler, and three children Mickey, Jake and Coco; Nostalgia for the Renaissance; Hair loss; Environmental activism; Impact of music when he was a youth; His love of yoga; Band members--drummer Vinny Colaitua, keyboardist David Sancious and guitarist Dominic Miller; Upcoming tour in the US as the opening act for the Grateful Dead; Comments on drugs and sex; More.

Interviews broadcaster Matt Lauer. Information on his career; Love life; Family background.

Profiles several women rock musicians. Includes Fiona Apple; Me'Shell Ndegeocello; Bjork.

Profiles actor Ethan Hawke. Film roles; Personality; Personal life; Comment by Hawke; Early life; More.

Profiles British singer Robbie Williams. Success of the album `The Ego Has Landed'; Membership in the group Take That; Anger over teen-idol days; Use of diverse and thoughtful lyrics; Musical influences; Biographical information.

Presents information on professional basketball player for the Los Angeles Lakers, Kobe Bryant. Reference to professional basketball player, Shaquille O'Neal; Background information on Bryant; Comments made by Matt Matkov, Bryant's best friends; Details on Bryant's career.

Profiles Eric Grant, a senior midshipman student at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. Background information on Grant; Comments from Grant; Reference to Grant's religious background.

Discusses Bob Mould and the band, Sugar. The album `File Under: Easy Listening'; The problems that Mould encounters after the completion of each album; The song `Gift'; David Barbe; Mould's time with Husker Du; Drummer Malcolm Travis; More.

Features various popular musical groups in the summer of 1994. Pride and Glory; Worl-A-Girl; Shudder to Think; Smif N Wessun; Veruca Salt; Rodan; Freakwater; Guided By Voices; Jack Logan; Recording companies.

Looks at the life of Kurt Cobain, leader of the band Nirvana who killed himself in April 1994. Birth of Cobain in February 1967 in Aberdeen, Washington; His earliest memories, which were exceedingly happy; Impact of his parent's divorce; His poor health as a child; Family suicide; His love of punk music; The creation of Nirvana; Acceptance of his talents in Olympia; The band's debut `Bleach'; His artistic energy; Tours; Cobain's legacy on the world.

Details events which happened in the music world in October 1992. R.E.M.'s `Automatic for the People'; Ozzy Osbourne's farewell tour; Soul Asylum's Columbia Records debut `Grave Dancers Union'; Release of Madonna's book `Sex'; Celebration of Bob Dylan's thirtieth anniversary in the music business at New York's Madison Square Garden; Mudhoney's `Piece of Cake'; Neneh Cherry's `Homebrew'; Neil Young's `Harvest Moon'; `Izzy Stradlin and the Ju Ju Hounds'; More.

The article focuses on the resources provided by the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped to young people in various braille formats, including the classics "Charlotte Web" and "A Wrinkle in Time," popular modern series, such as "Harry Potter," and children's books.

Interviews actor Liev Schreiber. Childhood; First colored movie watched by him; Role in the movie `The Hurricane'; Acting career; Impact of his career on his personal relationship.

Details events which happened in the music world in September 1992. The MTV Video Music Awards; Back stage squabble between band members from Nirvana and Guns N'Roses; 10,000 Maniac's fifth album `Our Time in Eden'; The movie and soundtrack `Singles,' directed by Cameron Crowe; Peter Gabriel's new album `Us'; Screaming Trees' release `Sweet Oblivion'; Nine Inch Nails' `Broken'; Suzanne Vega's `99.9 F degrees'; Prince's deal with Warner Bros.; More.

Details events which happened in the music world in July 1992. Opening of Lollapalooza II in Mountain View, California, with acts from the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Soundgarden and Pearl Jam; INXS' new album `Welcome to Wherever You Are'; Mick Jagger's organization of England's first-ever National Music Day; Sonic Youth's release `Dirty'; The marriage of Bobby Brown and Whitney Houston; Doug Wimbish's performance with Living Colour at CBGB; More.

Details events which happened in the music world in May 1992. Tom Petty's release of `Peace in L.A.' days after the outbreak of violence in L.A.; Bruce Springsteen's first appearance ever on `Saturday Night Live'; Lemonhead's guru Evan Dando's release of `It's a Shame About Ray,' which featured friend and former Blake Babies bassist Juliana Hatfield; The marriage of David Bowie and Iman; Nick Cave's seventh album `Henry's Dream'; More.

Details events which happened in the music world in April 1992. The four-hour AIDS benefit and tribute to Freddie Mercury at London's Wembley Stadium, with performances by Annie Lennox, David Bowie, Axl Rose, Elton John and George Michael; L7's `Bricks Are Heavy'; Debut of Perry Farrell's new band Porno For Pyros; The Beastie Boys' `Check Your Head'; Death of Def Leppard guitarist Steve Clark; The Third Annual Great Atlanta Pot Festival; Madonna; More.

Details some of the acts that were on tour in 1992. Sluggish ticket sales for most concerts; Success of the Elton John/Eric Clapton show; Lollapalooza '92, which included acts from Pearl Jam, Ice Cube, Soundgarden, the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Porno for Pyros; Metallica's upstaging of Guns N'Roses; U2's Zoo TV Tour; MTV's `120 Minutes' tour, which featured John Lydon and the North Carolina rock outfit Blind Melon; The Black Crows; The Grateful Dead; More.

Details events which happened in the music world in February 1992. Winners at Grammy '92, including Natalie Cole, Michael Bolton and R.E.M.; Sir Mix-A-Lot's `Mack Daddy'; The Sugarcubes' third release `Stick Around for Joy'; Motley Crue's decision to can lead singer Vince Neil; The R&B Foundation; John Mellencamp's acting and directing debut `Falling From Grace'; More.

Profiles actress Claire Danes. Views on her career; Details on how she started in show business; Views on her role in the motion picture `Romeo and Juliet'; Other films made.

Features the Short Stop, a cop bar in Los Angeles, California. Evolution into the sceniest bar in the city; Statement of bar owners Greg Dulli and Kevin Reagan on the popularity of the bar.

Interviews Mark McGrath, frontman of the band Sugar Ray. People's misconceptions about the band; Comments on the band's song `Fly'; Views on personal relationships; Plans for the future.

Presents a question and answer segment with Art Alexakis of the band Everclear.

Focuses on `Love Phones,' the nightly New York radio show on which disc jockey Chris Jagger and clinical psychologist Judy Kuriansky along with celebrity love doctors give advice on various relationship topics. Others call-in sex advice shows and their popularity; Excerpts from `Love Phones' with guest Evan Dando of the Lemonheads; Comment from Jagger and Kuriansky.

Announces that Bob Stinson, founding guitarist for the Replacements, rock's anti-heroes of the 1980's, died in late February 1995. Cause of death; How his life was defined by an ongoing battle with manic depression, drugs, and alcohol.

Provides a question and answer series with singer Simon LeBon of Duran Duran. What insight he believes he can bring to the American black urban experience; What songs of his he would like to have other people cover; His most decadent memory of the 1980's; His favorite Madonna incarnation.

Discusses the life and career of Nicky Hopkins, who died Sept. 6, 1994 of complications from abdominal and heart conditions. View that Hopkins was the best and busiest studio pianist in rock & roll during the 1960s and '70s; His work with the Rolling Stones; Other aspects of his career.

Features Iris DeMent and discusses various aspects of her life and career. Her 1992 debut record `Infamous Angel'; `My Life'; Biographical information; Her religious background; Quotes from DeMent.

Discusses the recording `Turn It Upside Down,' by the Spin Doctors. Thoughts of singer Chris Barron; Bassist Mark White; `Mary Jane'; `Someday This Will All Be the Road'; Other songs on the album.

Covers three concerts that occurred in February, March and April of 1994. Rod Stewart concert at the Arrowhead Pond of Anaheim in Anaheim, California on April 3, 1994; Pavement concert at The Forum in London on February 28, 1994; Rickie Lee Jones concert at Town Hall in New York on March 29, 1994; Songs; Crowd reaction.