Alistair Cooke

A man convicted of secretly cutting up corpses -- including that of "Masterpiece Theatre" host Alistair Cooke -- has received a sentence of nine to 27 years for his role in a ghoulish multimillion-dollar body parts scheme. Christopher Aldorasi, 36, was...

NEW YORK — A man convicted of secretly cutting up corpses—including that of "Masterpiece Theatre" host Alistair Cooke—has been sentenced to 9 to 27 years in prison for his role in a ghoulish, multimillion-dollar body-parts scheme....

NEW YORK — The mastermind behind a ghoulish scheme that involved stealing hundreds of corpses and selling the parts for millions of dollars will spend 18 to 54 years in prison. Michael Mastromarino, 44, a former oral surgeon, received the...

Career Objective: To obtain a challenging and satisfying position much like that currently held by Hugh Hefner. There's no point in denying it – 90 percent of American men want to be Hugh Hefner, and the other 10 percent really enjoy his articles. But...

At least a dozen people who had routine operations claim they caught deadly viruses and other germs from body parts stolen from corpses in a ghoulish scandal that has sent hundreds of people for tests. The patients tested positive for germs that cause...

Louis Rukeyser, who for 32 years presided over PBS' "Wall Street Week," a landmark financial advice show developed distinguished by his keen insights, wry puns and idiosyncratic musings on the market, died yesterday at his home in Greenwich, Conn....

The Sun has christened its new type font Mencken, in honor of its columnist, editor and occasional torturer. Henry Louis Mencken was born 125 years ago on Sept. 12, 1880, in a little West Lexington Street rowhouse. He was the son of a cigar-making father...

An older woman disappointed with her present tries to relive her tragic past in 'P.S.'If there's one stereotype "P.S." dispels right off the bat, it's the notion of today's twentysomethings as career-obsessed strivers. Young F. Scott Feinstadt (Topher...

Alistair Cooke, the quintessentially urbane host of television's "Masterpiece Theatre" and interpreter of U.S. culture for decades on British radio's "Letter from America," died Tuesday at his Manhattan home. He was 95. The British-born Cooke had...

Friday May 31, 1996      Any movie whose computer-generated effects are more believable than its actors is asking for trouble. A frustrating combination of the magical and the mundane, "Dragonheart" has less difficulty creating a creditable dragon than a...

From The Times: Thursday, March 30, 1989 It wasn't hot, fiery, sizzling, flaming, broiling, roasting, smoking, fuming, igniting, kindling or incinerating. It wasn't Hollywood Burning. It was Hollywood Lukewarm. Three hours plus of nice. Fairly nice....