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It's a classic Kelly Clarkson moment the set of her much-buzzed-about new TV show, Duets. She s wearing a purple tee and skinny black pants that show off her newly [...]

LEGS MCNEIL NEVER SLEPT with Nancy Spungen, but he knew her. Everyone on the punk scene did. 'There were only, like, 200 people,' he says. 'So you met everyone pretty [...]

In preparation for my move to Columbia County I sent an e-mail to friends. It had my new address and phone number, reassured them that while my new house didn't [...]

Pat Boone Says: You Don't Have to Wiggle ... Do I think performers have a moral obligation to their fans? Well, I do. I have had considerable success in the [...]

Frank Sinatra's strong, tender voice represented the 20th American century. His death on May 14, 1998, ended a one-of-a-kind career starting in the 1940s. His displayed vulnerability attracted women while his verve and toughness appealed to men.

It's a pain in the ass to look like Elvis Presley, you know that?' Jimmy LeBoeuf, decked out in flawless Elvis regalia, pulls up at a stoplight on the Las [...]

Whenever we hear some celebrity complaining about the high cost of fortune and fame, we can't help thinking, Sit down. Shut up. There's more where you came from. It's nearly [...]

I NEVER TRIED HEROIN, BUT I USED TO THINK I wanted to. White and middle class, just out of college in 1987, I read Jim Carroll's 'The Basketball Diaries,' a [...]

ALICIA SILVERSTONE is feeling just an eensy, weensy bit misunderstood. Everybody thinks she's so damn cute. It's driving her nuts. Maybe they've seen her hit movie 'Clueless,' in which she [...]

Jackson values his life as a family man and only tours about 100 days a year, a low figure for country stars. He and his wife have been married 15 years and have two small children. His new album is 'Who I Am.' He discusses his career and personal life.

Cherry successfully balances motherhood with her singing career. Her 1989 hip-hop album, 'Raw Like Sushi' established her as an intelligent, socially conscious lyricist. Her second album, 'Homebrew,' is more introspective and was recorded in part in her mother's home in Sweden.

Five up and coming celebrities are profiled: TV actor Michael Richards, musician Crystal Taiefero, actor Tony Goldwyn, model Karen Duffy, and actress Holly Robinson.

Nineteen-year-old film star Juliette Lewis has seen her career take off in 1992, with a feature performance in Woody Allen's 'Husbands and Wives' and two other pictures set for early 1993 release. Lewis attributes her success to her slightly iconoclastic approach.

Wilson Philips' second album, 'Shadows and Light,' follows their debut album which went multiplatinum. The three singers discuss their famous parents, their love lives and careers.

The star of the television series, 'Beverly Hills, 90210,' wants to be a good actor but finds fame disconcerting. He began his acting career at age seven, in Canada.

SUFJAN STEVENS MAY BE the first 32-year-old indie darling to have his classical debut at the Next Wave Festival, but he's in no danger of becoming Leopold Stokow-ski anytime soon. [...]

He's sold 67 million records. He's the most-loved country singer in history. Why has Nashville turned on him? Behind the good ole boy persona lurks a tough businessman. Mr. Brooks, [...]

Dylan has a complicated relationship with younger listeners. Sure, he saved the '60s. What's he done for kids lately? OF ALL THE STARS IN THE classic-rock sky, Bob Dylan may [...]

EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE, PATTI Smith has a tender moment. Usually they pass quickly: strange flights of insecurity that arrive out of nowhere, land on her shoulder and make [...]

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN IS ABOUT to put on a very intense performance for a very demanding audience: himself. At 6 on the night of his solo acoustic show in Stockholm, he [...]

Frank Sinatra is an old man, and in recent years he's taken to doing the things old men do. He forgets the words to favorite songs, and he seems to [...]

STEVE EARLE ISN'T EVER SATISFIED. On a calm, off-season day at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville, Earle is standing in front of his own display: [...]

HERE COMES THE GARBAGE BARGE! By Jonah Winter. Illustrated by Red Nose Studio Unpaged. Schwartz & Wade Books. $17.99. (Ages 4 to 8) Garbage shame is such a normal part [...]

Byline: Karen Schoemer If, like me, you're just getting hip to the Brooklyn band Grizzly Bear, you'd better check the mirror and wipe the giant L off your forehead. About [...]

Byline: Karen Schoemer With all due respect to the hippies of Haight-Ashbury, the Left Bank literati, and the Rent guy, the only version of bohemianism that has ever mattered to [...]

Discusses the appeal of movies that make people cry, called tear-jerkers. Characteristics of tear-jerkers; Comments from Robert Zemecis, who made `Forrest Gump,' and from James L. Brooks, who made `Terms of Endearment.' INSETS: Forgotten gem;Our favorites.

Recounts Elvis' career in Las Vegas, Nevada. His first appearance in 1956; His run of consecutive shows from 1969-1976; The film `Viva Las Vegas,' with Ann-Margret; How Elvis changed his rebel style to suit Las Vegas; Unconditional love he got, and still gets in Las Vegas; Timeline of Elvis' legacy. INSET: The king lives on, by Kate Cambor..

All the lights were out in Julie London's Encino house on the day, two years ago, when her housekeeper ushered me in. As my eyes adjusted to the darkness, I [...]

Some may scoff and snicker at the mere mention of Frank DeVol, whose crowning professional achievement was to give the world the ''Brady Bunch'' theme. But even those who think [...]

Spike Jonze doesn't want you to know what it's like being Spike Jonze. His mind wears a little sign on it: KEEP OUT. Jonze, 29, sits on a Soho stoop [...]

POP-MUSIC BIOGRAPHY RHINESTONE COWBOY An Autobiography. By Glen Campbell with Tom Carter. Villard, $22. Glen Campbell's fame is of the good old-fashioned country sort. He was born in rural Arkansas, [...]

Mary-Chapin Carpenter loves the mall. It makes her feel beautifully anonymous. Walking beneath plastic faux cathedral ceilings, drowned in lighting as bright as a flashbulb pop, she leaves at bay, [...]

SHE'S A REBEL The History of Women in Rock & Roll. By Gillian G. Gaar. Seal Press, paper, $16.95. Here in a nutshell is Gillian G. Gaar's history of women [...]

THE FORTYSOMETHING, out-of-the-culture-loop moms who left their fabulous lives in New York City to raise their kids in Columbia County were buzzing. Courtney Hunt, one of our own, denizen of [...]

A WOODSTOCK FRIEND E-MAILS me about Levon Helm. 'It's a mafia over there,' he warns. 'Nice people but very protective of him.' A hippie mafia. I'm enthralled. 'What else?' I [...]

Features motion picture actor Sean Penn. The film `The Thin Red Line,' directed by Terrence Malick; Penn's family life and marriages; Career highlights, which include writing and directing; Education; The film called `Hurlyburly,' which is based on the David Rabe stage play.

Discusses techno music in the United States. Why the music industry has turned its attention to techno culture; Promoter Gerry Gerrard's role in helping techno become mainstream in 1997; Techno acts, including the Chemical Brothers and the group Underworld; Suggested compact discs, including `Richard D. James Album,' by Aphex Twin, `In Sides,' by Orbital, `Homework,' by Daft Punk, and `Pearl's Girl,' by Underworld.

Profiles punk singer Patti Smith, who is releasing the album `Gone Again' in June 1996. Background of her singing career; Marriage to Fred `Sonic' Smith, who died in 1994; Her children, Jackson and Jesse; The singer's youth.