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.
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!”
Now that the award season has replaced the holiday season in Hollywood, buzz is building about best pictures, winning performances, designer gowns and, oh yes, “What’s for dinner?”
Dishing it for the A-listers attending Hollywood’s award banquets each year is no cakewalk. Meals must be distinct, elegant and appropriate for Tinseltown’s calorie-conscious ways.
These “Friends” like sticking together.
“I get to play a really mean person,” teased Kudrow, “so that’s really fun.”
Courteney Cox and Lisa Kudrow, who starred as Monica Geller and Phoebe Buffay for 10 seasons on NBC’s “Friends,” have reteamed for Wednesday’s episode of “Cougar Town,” Cox’s ABC comedy that earned her a Golden Globe nomination for her role as zany divorcee Jules Cobb.
Music producer Demetrius Lee Stewart, known as Shawty Redd, is being held in a suburban Atlanta jail on a murder charge.
Stewart is accused of shooting 35-year-old Damon A. Martin of Detroit in an argument at Stewart’s home in Hampton, about 30 miles southeast of Atlanta.
Henry County Police Capt. Jason Bolton says Stewart was arrested Friday morning.
Tens of thousands of cheering Japanese gathered in the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Saturday to hear Emperor Akihito pray for the nations happiness and world peace in his traditional New Year address.
“Marking the beginning of this year, I wish people happiness and the world peace,” Akihito said as crowds shouted “Banzai” (long live) and waved Japanese flags.
For the second straight year, comedian Kathy Griffin ushered in the new year by saying something vulgar on CNN.
Cooper hung his head, shook it and said “You’re terrible,” before resuming his banter.
During the network’s live New Year’s Eve broadcast from Times Square, Griffin was joking with co-host Anderson Cooper about how to pronounce the first name of “balloon boy” Falcon Heene when she mumbled something that sounded a little like “Falcon” and a lot like the F-word.
The countdown is on for one of the nation’s biggest New Year’s celebrations - the Tournament of Roses Parade.
They spent the night under the light of a rare blue moon - the second full moon in a month - awaiting the start of the 121st parade, themed “A Cut Above the Rest.” The grand marshal of the New Year’s Day spectacle is Chesley Sullenberger, the pilot who landed a stricken jetliner on New York’s Hudson River.
Japanese Emperor Akihito used his New Year statement on Friday to express sympathy with those caught up in the effects of Japans worst recession in decades.
“In this new year that we are greeting, I hope that everyone will help one another and support each other to overcome the challenges they are facing.
Police say a man who appeared in the Discovery Channel show “Deadliest Catch” is wanted for three bank robberies in Oregon and has been arrested in Illinois.
Police in Eugene, Ore., say he is the same Josh Warner who appeared as a greenhorn deckhand on the king crab fishing boat Wizard in the “Deadliest Catch” earlier this year.