Sideshow: Leg infection perils Gabor
Zsa Zsa Gabor's doctors say they are trying to avoid amputating one of the 93-year-old actress' legs by treating her with a two-day course of powerful antibiotics. The leg became infected after hip-replacement surgery. Her rep, John Blanchette, tells the Los Angeles Times doctors began the treatment Monday but had not yet determined its effectiveness.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
's doctors say they are trying to avoid amputating one of the 93-year-old actress' legs by treating her with a two-day course of powerful antibiotics. The leg became infected after hip-replacement surgery. Her rep,
John Blanchette
, tells the Los Angeles Times doctors began the treatment Monday but had not yet determined its effectiveness.
Sir Elton concert tix on sale
Sir Elton John
and his band will rock out March 25 at the Wells Fargo Center in Philly. Tix go sale at 10 a.m. Monday. Info: 1-800-298-4200 or
» READ MORE: www.comcastTix.com
.
Give LiLo a break!
Lindsay Lohan
, newly freed from rehab, is in trouble. Again. Police say they may charge LiLo with battery for her Dec. 12 fracas with Betty Ford Center employee
Dawn Holland
. This, even though Holland says she won't press charges. This could get LiLo a six-month jail sentence courtesy of Judge
Elden Fox
, who sent her to jail and then to rehab for probation violation.
Dispatches from a nation in love . . .
Country warbler
Kellie Pickler
, 24, and her beau of two years,
Kyle Jacobs
, 37, eloped New Year's Day and didn't bother to tell the Fourth Estate. It was a "small, intimate ceremony on a private island in the Caribbean," her rep tells People.
Dennis Quaid's ex, Meg Ryan, 49, back to being a good girl after a brief stint as a Russell Crowe-digging bad-girl wannabe, has spent the last few days romancing Indiana boy John Mellencamp on Martha's Vineyard and in New York City. This comes days after John announced he had left his wife of 18 years, Elaine. Observers have observed the pair displaying familiarity, joy, and sparkly eyes.
Speaking of sparkles, Unnamed Source tells People the mondo ring Matt Rutler just gave pop-tart Christina Aguilera is not - not - an engagement ring. But, says People, the couple are seriousing-up their thing: They've met each other's moms!
Cougar star Vivica A. Fox has said "Yes!" to Atlanta club promoter Omar "Slim" White, who's 27 and 19 years her junior. The New York Post says Slim proposed with an eight-carat jobber while the two were relaxing at the Ritz Carlton in Miami Beach on Dec. 26.
Proposals proliferate! View cohost Sherri Shepherd, 43, became engaged to TV writer Lamar Sally on Dec. 26, says USA Today. They'll wed in August.
The celibacy report
Ozzie
's gift to humanity, daughter
Kelly Osbourne
, 26, says ex-fiancé
Luke Worrall
, 21, still haunts her many-chambered heart, six months after they broke up. Kelly tells British Cosmopolitan she's been celibate since Luke left.
Whoa!
Is this the same Kelly who sent those savage, Luke-loathing tweets ("All he did was use me") over Christmas weekend?
Justin Bieber fans are sending furious, hateful tweets to Selena Gomez after a photo showed her cozying up with the 16-year-old throb. "I'll kill you I swear," reads one. "If you are the Girlfriend of Justin I will Kill you," says another.
No business like show business
It's raining sponges! Nickelodeon has ordered 26 additional episodes of
SpongeBob SquarePants
to air in 2012.
Julia Stiles, 29, has been cast in the Broadway production of famed sensitive boy Neil LaBute's Fat Pig, about a man (Josh Hamilton) who dates a zaftig gal.
The Producers Guild of America has nominated 10 pictures for film of the year, including
127 Hours
,
Black Swan
,
Inception
,
The Fighter
, and
The King's Speech
. Winners will be blessed at a Jan. 22 ceremony hosted by
Judd Apatow
. The Writers Guild of America's noms list is virtually identical. Best original screenplay nods go to
Black Swan
,
The Kids Are All Right
, and
Please Give
. Adapted screenplay noms go to
I Love You Phillip Morris
,
The Social Network
, and
The Town
. Winners will be honored on Feb. 5.
Mo'Nique will announce the 83d Academy Awards noms Jan. 25.
A PG-rated 'Huck Finn'?
Publisher's Weekly says
Mark Twain
scholar
Alan Gribben
will publish cleaned-up versions of
Huckleberry Finn
and
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
. The n-word will be replaced with the word
slave
. Other words to be expunged include
Injun
. Gribben says he's not trying to publish a "color-blind" version of Twain. "Race matters in these books," he says. "It's a matter of how you express that in the 21st century."