It may not sound like a classic Saturday night blow-out, but at 8 p.m. on March 29, millions of people around the world will turn off their lights to celebrate Earth Hour. This event, sponsored by the WWF, a global conservation organization, is intended to increase awareness of global warming …

Troy Garity | Anjelica Huston | Iron Monkey | Nick Lowe Fonda Son Steals Bandits in Debut I can’t tell you how much I liked Barry Levinson‘s Bandits — or implore you enough to see it this weekend. Banditsco-stars Billy Bob Thornton, Cate Blanchett and Bruce Willis and is already …

WASHINGTON – A new drug sheriff with a hawkish reputation is coming to town, and an unlikely assortment of Washington policy watchers want some guarantees that he’s not going to get carried away. Some 65 groups as far apart on the political scale as the right-ish Eagle Forum and the …

MARIEL BAI, Sudan – Slavery, a human rights horror of the past, is alive and well in Sudan’s present. With a civil war raging around them, government-backed soldiers are reportedly enslaving thousands of women and children in the southern part of the country. Most of the captured are brought north, …

Another class-action lawsuit concerning the attention deficit disorder medication Ritalin bit the dust last week. Of the five such lawsuits filed in 2000, this is the fourth to be either dismissed or withdrawn. It’s no surprise. The plaintiffs’ lawyers apparently didn’t pay close enough attention to the credibility of the …

Sandra Bullock | Mark Green | Hollywood’s Next Generation | Pioneer Awards | John Travolta Sandra Bullock Is in the House — Every House And now to Sandra Bullock, orSandy as she likes to be called. Last summer I reported in this column that theextremely likeable and genial star was …

When the Environmental Protection Agency’s new chief, former New Jersey governor Christie Todd Whitman, announced in March that the Bush Administration would set aside the agency’s recently tightened regulations on arsenic in drinking water, environmentalists and health groups shouted out in disbelief. What kind of president, they asked, wouldn’t try …

Did this ever happen to you in school? You took a test and bombed — big time. But lo and behold, the rest of the class bombed too. What did your teacher do? Throw the test out? Probably not. Demand a retake? Possibly. Grade it on a curve? Very likely. …

First of five parts From Prada to Prison: The Dana Giacchetto Story Considering the original lived as a master showman, it’s fitting that the name of Dana Giacchetto‘s personal shopper at Prada was Ed Sullivan. Of course, not many money managers have personal shoppers, let alone at the boutique of …

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Pearl Harbor Jacko’s Rabbi Gets Meshugah on Court TV I appeared yesterday afternoon on Court TV in a segment following Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, Michael Jackson‘s current Svengali, adviser and head of his charity for children. I was supposed to appear with Boteach, but he steadfastly refused …