A publicist says Burt Bacharach is postponing several concerts as he recovers from back surgery.
Dozoretz says Bacharach’s prognosis is excellent, but he will need to postpone scheduled concerts through mid-March.
Publicist Linda Dozoretz says the 81-year-old singer is recovering at a hospital after the New Year’s Eve surgery.
Donald Trump boasted that the upcoming season of “The Celebrity Apprentice” is the best ever and promised the star power of its cast “blows `Dancing With the Stars’ away.”
Now NBC says it’s time to unveil that roster of 14 participants, who will likely spur responses ranging from “Wow!” to “Huh?”
“Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace With Marriage” (Viking, 304 pages, $26.95) by Elizabeth Gilbert: First comes “Eat, Pray, Love,” then comes marriage for best-selling author Elizabeth Gilbert, whose latest travel memoir describes her fitful and resistant journey back into matrimony.
Her long-awaited sequel, “Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace With Marriage,” is a good effort but comes up a bit short.
Former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich will be among stars taking on real estate mogul Donald Trump in the boardroom in the next “Celebrity Apprentice” television contest in March, NBC on Monday.
The celebrities will all be competing for charities close to their hearts as they take part in women vs men business-oriented tasks around New York and battle to avoid the famous words “Youre fired!” from Trump.
“Elvis: My Best Man” (Crown, 320 pages, $25), by George Klein: Elvis Presley is one of the most enduring figures in American pop culture history.
Not bad for a guy who died in 1977.
Hundreds of thousands of people still pay each year to see Graceland mansion in Memphis, Tenn., and fork over cash for his music and memorabilia.
Here is a selection of albums that should have gotten more attention than they got in 2009:
Country music traditionalist Joe Nichols’s latest release, “Old Things New,” slipped in under the radar this fall.
“Old Things New,” Joe Nichols (Universal South)
He repeats this wave-and-trough approach throughout the album, bouncing from the unabashed drinking song, “Cheaper Than a Shrink” to the breakup lament, “The Shape I’m In.
Italian financial authorities are set to auction off a pair of earrings worn by Maradona as they continue to pursue the Argentine football legend over massive tax debts, ANSA reported Monday.
Valued at around 4000 euros, the sale of the earrings is unlikely to make a huge dent in his 36 million euros tax bill which according to an Italian taxpayers association, www.
Maggie Rodriguez of CBS’ “The Early Show” is expecting her second child.
Rodriguez has a 4-year-old daughter, Daniella. Her husband, Michael Rodriguez, is a marketing executive at the Telemundo television network.
She announced her pregnancy on Monday’s show. Rodriguez said to co-host Harry Smith, weather forecaster Dave Price and newsman Russ Mitchell: “You guys are going to be uncles!”
Actor Matthew McConaughey and his girlfriend have announced the birth of their second child - a baby girl.
McConaughey says his girlfriend, model Camila Alves, is “recovering wonderfully” and the couple welcomed “this little lady into our family.”
The actor says on his Web site that Vida Alves McConaughey was born Sunday.
Wearing leopard skins and carrying a Zulu shield, South Africas polygamous President Jacob Zuma on Monday married for the fifth time, in a traditional ceremony in his remote hometown.
The two formally wed when a tribal elder asked Madiba if she accepted to join the Zuma family. When she agreed, he pronounced her Zumas third current wife.