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Nick Lowe was sitting in a lovely little pub in London not long ago, looking elegant in that very mutable, suit-wearing, English sort of way that somehow manages to look [...]

Wherein a life-form named Thurman is a chamelon (in Les Miserables and, soon, The Avengers) and a canoodler (in gossip-column restaurants), a dissembler (about herself) and a dominatrix of Barbie [...]

It's a movie we saw. It's a movie you're going to want to see. It's a movie that made us want to talk to the director. Writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson [...]

Shandling has much in common with the character he plays on HBO's 'Larry Sanders Show.' Both characters are intelligent, driven, and neurotically anxious. Shandling discusses his concerns, past accomplishments and current projects.

Musician and actor Sting talks about the release of his latest album, 'Mercury Falling,' and his career. The one-time lead singer for the British rock group, 'The Police,' Sting now devotes his time to writing songs and supporting various environmental causes.

Actor Kato Kaelin became an instant celebrity when he was involved in the murder trial of O.J. Simpson. Kaelin was then offered contracts to endorse a variety of products and has appeared on several television shows and has been the subject of a biography by Marc Eliot.

A new generation of talented and dedicated film actors is breaking down traditional Hollywood barriers to being both young and successful. Twenty-two young stars are profiled, including Drew Barrymore, Ethan Hawke and Juliette Lewis.

The phenomenally successful television show 'Baywatch' is a smorgasbord of attractive bodies, a thin plot line, slow-motion cameras and sunny shorelines. It now has a spinoff called 'Baywatch Nights' and a cartoon version to be entitled 'Baywatch Kids.'

Television comedienne Ellen DeGeneres hopes that her show 'Ellen' will continue evolving. She says that her program is an attempt to capture the life of a typical single woman of the 1990s.

US magazine's Honor Roll recognizes artists who have distinguished themselves in their fields. The 1994 list includes actors Tom Hanks, Susan Sarandon, Garry Shandling and Helen Hunt; filmmaker Quentin Tarantino; rap group Sal-N-Pepa; and rock singer Courtney Love.

Michael Stipe, lead singer of the Georgia-based band 'R.E. M.,' talks about sex, fame, death, childhood, his pet peeves and his band's 10th studio album, 'Monster.'

Talk-show host Rosie O'Donnell believes that dysfunctional TV shows are more common nowadays than when she was a young child. She opposes the mockery done to the gay character in the movie 'Con Air.' O'Donnell is raising funds for her charity 'For All Kids Foundation' through her show.

Pop singer turned actress Madonna has been praised for her portrayal of Eva Peron in the new film by Alan Parker, 'Evita.' The praise is somewhat new to the pop icon, who was previously criticized for many of her works. She discusses her role and her pregnancy.

SONS OF CAMELOT The Fate of an American Dynasty. By Laurence Leamer. Illustrated. 638 pp. New York: William Morrow. $27.95. IN many ways, Laurence Leamer's ''Sons of Camelot: The Fate [...]

'So you're going to go all linear on me?'' Robert Downey Jr. says. ''Killjoy,'' he adds, leaning into the tape recorder. I had just shifted the conversation from spontaneous chat [...]

There was a time, lost in the literal half-light of the film noir heroine, when a high-heeled shoe said something about a woman. Depending on the shoe (or the woman), [...]

Claire is 18. She is a pretty teenager, with long strawberry-blond hair, and she is almost abnormally self-possessed for a girl from a small town who has suddenly been descended [...]

Q: What was your personal relationship to summer camp? SHOWALTER (right): David and I both had very formative summer-camp experiences. I went to Camp Mohawk in the Berkshires, and David [...]

Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, 14, are on the ground floor of Fred Segal on Melrose Avenue in their hometown, Los Angeles. They have just finished trying on clothes and are [...]

Q: You directed a feature film, ''American History X,'' but ended up suing the Director's Guild and New Line Cinema to have your name taken off it. You have also [...]

Eminem, the rapper whose ''Marshall Mathers LP'' is up for Album of the Year at the Grammy Awards this week, is white. I would prefer not to mention that at [...]

The Beatles Anthology By the Beatles. Illustrated. 367 pp. San Francisco: Chronicle Books. $60. How does it feel to be one of the beautiful people? According to the beautiful, brilliant [...]

Q: Your production company is called Contemptible Entertainment. Why? I thought it was vaguely ominous and Victorian. And also, more specifically, it was based on a film I like a [...]