Category Archives: Health

Mary Tyler Moore recovering after brain surgery

By doris | Published: May 14, 2011

Full Story at TODAYmsnbc.msn.com NEW YORK — Actress Mary Tyler Moore had a four-hour brain operation to remove a benign tumor and is “recovering nicely,” her spokeswoman said on Friday. The beloved actress, 74, had elective surgery to remove what is known as a meningioma, or benign tumor of the lining tissue of her brain. [...]

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Bret Michaels Able to Rock “Apprentice” Finale?

By doris | Published: May 1, 2011

Full Story at CBSNews.com (CBS/ AP) When it comes to competing on “Celebrity Apprentice” or rocking out on stage, former Poison frontman Bret Michaels doesn’t give up without a fight. It turns out the die-hard rocker’s highly anticipated return may be just around the corner – even after he suffered a brain hemorrhage last week. [...]

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Annette Funicello rushed to hospital after house fire

By doris | Published: March 10, 2011

Full Story at TODAY.msnbc.com Annette Funicello is one lucky lady. The former lead Mouseketeer was one of three people rushed to the hospital Thursday for possible smoke inhalation after her suburban L.A. house caught fire. The blaze at the Encino, Calif., home started in the early morning hours and was first reported around 7:21 a.m. [...]

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Comedian Mike DeStefano dies

By doris | Published: March 7, 2011

Full Story at TODAY.msnbc.msn.com Comedian Mike DeStefano, who finished among the top five finalists last season in NBC’s “Last Comic Standing,” has died. His representative at 3 Arts Entertainment confirmed DeStefano died Sunday in New York City. The representative wouldn’t disclose DeStefano’s age or the cause of death. Us Magazine reports DeStefano was 44.

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Zsa Zsa Gabor rushed to hospital with no blood flow in leg, rep says

By doris | Published: March 2, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor was rushed by ambulance to a Los Angeles hospital Wednesday after suffering a shutdown of blood flow to her left leg, according to her publicist. Gabor’s press representative, John Blanchette, told CNN that Gabor has been sent to UCLA Medical Center. Blanchette said he had [...]

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Liz Taylor celebrates 79th birthday in hospital

By doris | Published: February 28, 2011

Full Story atTODAY.msnbc.msn.com LOS ANGELES — A spokeswoman for Elizabeth Taylor says the two-time Oscar winner will spend her birthday watching the Academy Awards in a Los Angeles hospital room, where she’s recovering from treatment for congestive heart failure. Sally Morrison says Taylor will be rooting for “The King’s Speech” to win Hollywood’s highest honor. [...]

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Max Wilk, Playwright, Showbiz Journalist and O’Neill Center Dramaturg, Dead at 90

By doris | Published: February 24, 2011

Full Story at bews.Yahoo.com Max Wilk, a novelist, a nonfiction chronicler of show business subjects, playwright, screenwriter — and a dramaturg for the National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center for more tham 25 years — died Feb. 19 at his home in Westport, CT, the O’Neill Festival reported. Mr. Wilk was 90. [...]

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Hollywood Dads Who Will Go From Pushing Strollers to Walkers

By doris | Published: February 21, 2011

Full Story at PopEater.com They may be dragging oxygen tanks behind them when they walk their daughters down the aisle or go to their sons’ baseball games, but these “mature” dads apparently know how to keep the spark alive in their marriages. From Clint Eastwood to Elton John to Nick Nolte, let’s hear it for [...]

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Aretha Franklin on return to stage, diet change

By doris | Published: February 17, 2011

Full Story at TODAYmsnbc.msn.com The Grammy Award-winning singer will also release an album that month with Wal-Mart Stores Inc. More personally, she’s working on losing more weight from her frame, which is noticeably slimmer since her December surgery. “I want to not only maintain the weight I am at now, but better it, by one [...]

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Mickey Rooney’s stepson accused of abusing actor

By doris | Published: February 15, 2011

Full Story atnews.Yahoo.com LOS ANGELES – A judge has granted Mickey Rooney a temporary restraining order from his stepson, who is accused in court filings of withholding food and medicine from the veteran actor and meddling in his personal finances. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Reva Goetz approved the stay-away order on Monday after attorneys [...]

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