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Today is Tuesday, Oct. 15, the 288th day of 2002 with 77 to follow.

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 6 (UPI) -- Because "Big Trouble's" plot hinges on skyjackers smuggling a weapon past clueless airport baggage inspectors, Touchstone Pictures postponed the release of this hilarious comedy from a date only 10 days after Sept. 11, 2001 to last April. With its marketi

NEW YORK, June 24 (UPI) -- Thomas Mann's provocative 1912 novella, "Death in Venice," has been made into a devastatingly powerful one-man drama by Scotland's Citizen's Theater of Glasgow and is being staged at the Off-Broadway Manhattan Ensemble Theater.

LOS ANGELES, April 4 (UPI) -- Make a list of all the outstanding prose stylists in America - your John Updikes, your Phillip Roths, your Tom Wolfes - and the one superb writer you are almost

NEW YORK, Dec. 3 (UPI) -- Driving into Boston recently to attend a conference on "Changing and Unchanging Values in the World of the Future," I noticed a billboard advertising not the la

Today is Monday, Oct. 15, the 288th day of 2001 with 77 to follow.

NEW YORK, Sept. 28 (UPI) -- The New York City Opera's new production of "The Mikado" is a matter of Gilbert and Sullivan meeting the Marx Brothers.