“The buzz was loud and clear, we struck a chord,” said president of NBC Entertainment Kevin Reilly at the network’s Upfront presentation yesterday afternoon. But: “Frankly, we need to be more better.” Mr. Reilly was saying what the hundreds of ad executives milling around Radio...

The actor has lived in the apartment for almost 30 years, moving in back when it was rent-controlled. “I was lucky,” he said. “I had to grease somebody’s palm. I was in They’re Playing Our Song. I needed a larger apartment. My daughter was growing...

Promises! Promises! Or Crossroads, or even Passages! I don’t care which one it is, I am just desperate to get into a rehab facility. I want my turn. As the endless stream of “troubled” glitterati continues to pour in and out of rehab, I’m starting...

It's a cliché: the tough guy with the gentle touch. One of New York's recurring characters, a man's man who knows how to be sensitive with the ladies. But that was Jerry Orbach-or Lennie Briscoe, or Billy Flynn, or Mack the Knife, or any one...

[The Neil Simon and Burt Bacharach musical "Promises, Promises" proved to be] the kind of show where you feel more in the mood to send it a congratulatory telegram than write a review…. The hero is not a nice man. In fact he is a kind of mousefink, who decides to sleep his way to the top of business without really lying. The sleeping is done—in a manner of speaking—not by him but by the senior executives in the life insurance firm in which he works. He gives them the key t...