04:58 PM EDT 11/02/2009
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Flu Forces Elton John to Cancel Concerts
Originally posted 11/01/2009 10:00AM
The flu may be on everyone's minds, but it happens to be in Elton John's system – prompting the British musician, who is said to be in a London hospital for treatment of e-coli bacterial infection and influenza, to postpone the Seattle and Portland, Ore., dates on his current tour, costarring Billy Joel, the BBC reports.
Monday morning, John's spokesman Gary Farrow told Reuters that, despite the hospitalization, Sir Elton, 62, was "absolutely fine" and hoped to return to entertaining soon.
According to his official Web site, Sir Elton postponed a Dublin performance on Thursday after earlier shelving concerts in London, Liverpool, Sheffield, Newcastle.
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Amnesiac Teen Identified in New York City
Originally posted 10/25/2009 12:00PM
Authorities have identified an amnesiac girl found two weeks ago wandering New York City's Times Square. Her name is Kacie Peterson, according to news reports from Seattle.
Peterson, a missing 18-year-old from Washington State, is to be reunited with her family, say officials. A tip called into a New York Police Department hotline led to the girl's identification, the New York Post reported.It is not yet known how she ended up in New York.
Late last week, New York City's Administration for Children's Services issued a press release asking for the public's help in identifying the girl, whom they called "Jane Doe."
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Musical Maestro Lloyd Webber Battling Cancer
Originally posted 10/26/2009 08:15AM
The composer behind the hit musicals The Phantom of the Opera, Cats, Jesus Christ Superstar and Evita is being treated for prostate cancer, it was announced.
Andrew Lloyd Webber, 61, is expected to be back at work in a couple of months after tests detected the disease early, according to his reps.
In a brief statement to PEOPLE, they said: "The condition is in its very early stages. Andrew is now undergoing treatment and expects to be fully back at work before the end of the year."
At the moment, the musician – who was knighted by Queen Elizabeth and then awarded a peerage, giving him the formal title Baron Lloyd-Webber – is preparing Love Never Dies, a sequel to Phantom of the Opera that is scheduled to open in London in March.
– Simon Perry
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Singer Morrissey Collapses on Stage
Originally posted 10/25/2009 10:00AM
Morrissey, the 50-year-old former frontman of indie band The Smiths, spent Saturday night in a hospital after falling to the floor during a gig in Swindon, England, about 80 miles west of London.
The singer was discharged Sunday after being "admitted as a precautionary measure," a spokeswoman at the Great Western Hospital tells PEOPLE, and "he is much improved."
The incident happened when he was completing his first song, The Smith's "This Charming Man," Saturday evening. Eyewitness Jillian Moody told the BBC, "He kept putting his hand up to his mouth as if he felt sick or ... perhaps he was trying to hide something, but he didn't look particularly comfortable."
After he fell, two members of Morrissey's current band helped him offstage and he was taken to the hospital. Ambulance crews were initially told he was unconscious.
It's Stem-Cell Harvest Time for Ethan Zohn
Originally posted 10/22/2009 10:45AM
Fall means harvest time. But for Ethan Zohn, it's a harvest of a whole different kind.
"Today is a nice fall day outside, which means it's a perfect day to harvest your stem cells," Zohn, 35, says in his latest video diary.
Dressed in a hoodie and lying in a hospital bed where he is connected to a series of tubes, Zohn explains how doctors are taking stem cells from his own blood now to save for later use – when he undergoes a full stem-cell transplant to stave off his resurgent cancer.
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Levi Johnston's Playgirl Prep: Weights and Moose Meat
Originally posted 10/19/2009 08:45AM
How does Levi Johnston keep to the high-protein diet he needs to prepare for his upcoming Playgirl photo shoot?
With a rifle.
"Moose meat is very good for you, high in protein and very lean," his trainer, Marvin Jones, tells PEOPLE. "He's an avid hunter, so he has his own."
The 19-year-old father of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's grandchild has adopted a 3,500-calorie low-carb diet as part of a grueling regimen to ready him for next month's photo shoot.
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Roman Polanski Hospitalized for Second Time
Originally posted 10/19/2009 08:30AM
Director Roman Polanski was transferred from prison to a Zurich hospital for medical examinations Friday. The hospitalization, which is expected to last several days, involves an undisclosed medical condition.
The famed filmmaker was arrested in September on decades-old rape charges from the U.S., and is awaiting a possible extradition to California.
It's the second hospitalization for Polanski, 76, who has actually been admitted on at least one previous occasion since his arrest in Zurich on Sept 26.
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Tori Spelling: I'm Not Wasting Away
Originally posted 10/09/2009 02:45PM
Tori Spelling hasn't revealed the mysterious illness that recently sent her to the hospital, but she does say this much: She's not dangerously underweight.
"LIES!" the reality star, 36, Tweeted in response to a Star magazine report that she's 95 lbs. and wasting away. "Literally not 1 factual thing in entire article. And, come 2 my house & weigh me Star! I'm 107 lbs."
Spelling has been chronicling her illness, which she says is shared by her husband Dean McDermott and children, and which she called "The McDermott Family Bug" in a Tweet, for days. It appears Spelling has been hit the hardest, with McDermott writing on Twitter that she underwent a "battery of tests" with "no conclusive answers."
– Mike Fleeman
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Elizabeth Taylor Assures Fans She's Fine
Originally posted 10/09/2009 08:15AM
In the ongoing Elizabethan drama that is Elizabeth Taylor's life, the movie star has survived another hospital visit – this time to repair a leaky heart valve – and is assuring her public all is well.
On her Dame Elizabeth Twitter page, the AIDS activist, perfume mogul and Butterfield 8 and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Best Actress Oscar winner, 77, tells fans, "Dear Friends, My heart procedure went off perfectly. It's like having a brand new ticker. Thank you for your prayers and good wishes … I know they all helped. Love you, Elizabeth."
Taylor underwent a laparoscopic operation, which is considered experimental. "It's called MitraClip," Dr. Edward Verrier, professor of cardiovascular surgery at the University of Washington in Seattle, told ABC News. "It's an unproven but new technology that's being introduced as a potential [and less-invasive] alternative to open-heart surgery."
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Getting Chemo with Ethan Zohn
Originally posted 10/08/2009 08:30AM
Three months of chemotherapy this past summer weren't enough to knock out Ethan Zohn's case of Hodgkin's lymphoma. So he's back in the hospital, connected to tubes and wires, undergoing even more chemotherapy – and in his latest video diary, he takes viewers inside his tiny room to share the experience and let his fans know how he's doing.
"I have been locked in this room for three days, and I've gone a little bit stir crazy, I'm not gonna lie," says the Survivor: Africa winner, reclining in a hospital bed in part one of a new three-stage battle he's waging against the resurgent cancer.
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