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LOS ANGELES — Michael Douglas said on Tuesday he felt optimistic about recovering from throat cancer but drew gasps when he told a television audience he had the most advanced stage
The 65-year-old “Wall Street” actor told talk-show host David Letterman that a biopsy indicated that his cancer was at stage 4, which he described as “intense, and so they’ve got to go at it …”
Letterman asked whether stage 4 was a good diagnosis. “Um no,” Douglas replied, according to a transcript provided by CBS’ “Late Show with David Letterman.” “You like to be down at stage one … but it has not — the big thing you’re always worried about is it spreading.
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Los Angeles, California (CNN) — Nancy Dolman, the wife of actor-comedian Martin Short has died, Short’s representative said.
“Sadly, we can confirm that Martin Short’s wife did pass away,” Camille Kuznetz said Monday. “We do not have any other comment to make.”
No details about the time, location or cause of Dolman’s death were released.
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SAN FRANCISCO — Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor, a fixture in Hollywood for six decades, asked that a priest read her the last rites on Sunday, following hospitalization two days earlier due to complications from hip surgery.
The 93-year-old Gabor, whose string of movies, television shows and wealthy husbands dates to the 1950s, was visited by a priest at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, her husband Frederick Prinz von Anhalt, told Reuters.
Gabor was able to speak “very little,” though she was conscious, he said.
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Los Angeles, California (CNN) — Zsa Zsa Gabor underwent surgery for the removal of a blood clot Friday night, a complication relating to her recent hip replacement surgery, her publicist said.
Gabor was rushed to Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles after her husband called an ambulance to their Bel Air, California home, spokesman John Blanchette said.
Gabor, 93, is expected to remain in the hospital for several days, Blanchette said,
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NEW YORK — If only real life for the child stars of “Diff’rent Strokes” was anything like the fictional Park Avenue life of luxury they inhabited on television.
The death of pint-sized star Gary Coleman on Friday at age 42 underscored the troubled lives of the sitcom’s stars after the television lights went out in 1986 after eight seasons. Some have even talked about the “curse of ‘Diff’rent Strokes.’”
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SALT LAKE CITY — Former child television star Gary Coleman is in critical condition near his Utah home with what his family calls a “serious medical problem.”
Utah Valley Regional Medical Center spokeswoman Janet Frank said Coleman, 42, was admitted to the Provo facility on Wednesday but she couldn’t release any other details.
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NEW YORK – Bret Michaels is set to return to the stage a little more than a month after suffering a brain hemorrhage.
His representative announced Friday that the rocker and reality star would perform at the Hard Rock Live in Biloxi, Miss., on May 28.
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Bret Michaels has been released from the Phoenix, Arizona, hospital where he has been treated since suffering a massive brain hemorrhage 12 days ago, his neurosurgeon said Tuesday.
Doctors “are feeling pretty confident” that Michaels will not suffer another hemorrhage and will fully recover, Dr. Joseph Zabramski said.
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(CNN) — The notoriously private Janet Jackson opened up about her brother’s death on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” Friday, admitting that the family knew he had a problem.
“People think we were in denial but we weren’t. We tried intervention several times. He was very much in denial — he didn’t think he had a problem.”
When the news first broke that Michael was ill, Jackson said she first heard about it from an assistant while she was home in New York.
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VANCOUVER, B.C. — – Former “Growing Pains” star Andrew Koenig, who played Boner on the ‘80s TV show, has been reported missing.
“He went up to [Vancouver] to visit friends who last saw him on the 14th,” Danielle Koenig, his sister, told Zap2it.com, which was first to report the news. “Any information we can get on his whereabouts would be helpful.”
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