After several seasons packed with serious fare, the fall is looking considerably lighter.

But since then, the Oscars have tended to reward more serious fare.

John Wilkes Booth (1838-1865), a popular young star in less serious fare than his brother.

The audience has to be educated about serious fare, he said.

After the summer doldrums, this is the time museums and galleries treat us to helpings of more serious fare, delivering the year's most worthwhile exhibitions.

For less serious fare, the schedule offers a classic whodunit and a story of a barnyard friendship.

"They are really movies more suited for the fall," when adult audiences are thought to prefer more serious fare.

It is more serious fare than its farcical counterpart.

By the time you have worked your way around these proposals, you are apt to find the more serious fare stuffy and old-fashioned.

Ditto for what passes as more serious fare.