Hollywood legend Katharine Hepburn spent a second night in a Hartford, Conn., hospital recovering from what was described as a minor infection by Hepburn's brother-in-law, The Associated Press reports.
Mimi Farina, a singer and social activist, died of cancer Wednesday at her home in Marin County, Calif., at the age of 56. Like sister and fellow singer Joan Baez, Farina was a member of "folk royalty" in the 1960s, but she left her music career to devote herself to charitable work.
It certainly pays to be an Academy Award winner-in more ways than one. Sure, there's the adulation and prestige one receives when winning an Oscar, but did you also know it could help you live longer?
According to a study published in Tuesday's Annals of Internal Medicine, Academy Award winners live nearly four years longer than those actors who have been nominated but haven't actually won the gold statuette.
Lead author Dr. Donald Redelmeier, director of clinical epidemiology at Sunnybro
SANTA MONICA, Calif., March 10, 2000 -- A multiple-sclerosis-stricken Richard Pryor cannot "bathe himself or prepare his own meals." Richard Pryor So says court papers filed by the comic legend's own son, who's seeking to be put in charge of the Pryor estate. Richard Pryor Jr., 38, launched the conservatorship fight last week in Los Angeles Superior Court, the New York Post says. Making a nasty family fight even nastier, the elder Pryor has gone to court himself ... to obtain a restraining