Mark Marky

In January 1991, after Iraqi President Saddam Hussein ordered his troops to invade Kuwait, a coalition of U.S.-led forces launched an intensive air, ground and sea attack to expel Iraq and restore Kuwaiti independence. With the largest overseas U.S. combat-troop deployment since the Vietnam War, the Persian Gulf War severely crippled Saddam's war machine, leaving tens of thousands of Iraqis dead or wounded. Thousands were taken prisoner.

In January 1991, after Iraqi President Saddam Hussein ordered his troops to invade Kuwait, a coalition of U.S.-led forces launched an intensive air, ground and sea attack to expel Iraq and restore Kuwaiti independence. With the largest overseas U.S. combat-troop deployment since the Vietnam War, the Persian Gulf War severely crippled Saddam's war machine, leaving tens of thousands of Iraqis dead or wounded. Thousands were taken prisoner.

Sexy or scandalous? Which is it when a man wears what looks suspiciously like underwear as outerwear? Rockers Mick Jagger and Axl Rose have been prancing around for years in what appears to be underwear. For his last tour, Jagger wore second-skin knit pants that were a combination of knickers and football pants. More recently, Rose strutted on stage at the American Music Awards in anatomically explicit white shorts--a hybrid of sweats and bicycle shorts.

Ask any father of a dating teenage girl what his worst nightmare is and he'll describe something close to the plot of James Foley's "Fear." It's like this: The virginal daughter, certain that she has found Mr. Right, brings home Mr. Wrong, a man who has the unctuous manner of an insurance salesman and the eyes of a serial killer. When the father warns her that she is dating Ted Bundy, she laughs in his face because, hey, that's what he says about all of her boyfriends. This time, he's right.

At the last minute, underground poet/novelist/musician Jim Carroll canceled plans to attend the Sundance Film Festival premiere of the movie version of his 1978 cult classic, "The Basketball Diaries." The self-described recluse opted to stay home in New York to meet with a priest--all in the name of research for a new novel Carroll is writing. "I've been corresponding with this priest from the Vatican who grew up in New York City . . .