By Danny Hooley, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C. Jul. 29--A native Raleigh stage actress who recently completed a seven-month touring Broadway production of "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" is set to make her national TV debut on HBO.

By Scott Cantrell, The Dallas Morning News Mar. 16--Opera yielded nothing to wide-screen thrillers for gut-wrenching drama Saturday afternoon, and even in a movie theater.

By David Patrick Stearns, The Philadelphia Inquirer Mar.

By Karen Shade, Tulsa World, Okla. Dec. 16--The days when Anthony Dean Griffey believed he would become a Baptist minister have long passed. But as he rails against the contentment of pleasures in his latest role, Griffey still has a message to preach.

By Edward Ortiz, The Sacramento Bee, Calif. Dec. 16--In 1893, during cinema's infancy, Thomas Edison proclaimed that opera had a great future as home entertainment to be screened on a curtain in the parlor. The idea was more than 100 years ahead of its time.