Bush writes book introduction

New York President Bush has contributed the introduction to a Life Magazine book commemorating Sept. 11, Life announced Sunday. “The American Spirit” is scheduled to go on sale Aug. 19.

“In a single instant, Americans realized that this will be a decisive decade in the history of liberty, that we have been called to a unique role in human events. Rarely has the world faced a choice more clear and consequential,” Bush writes.

“We face an enemy of ruthless ambition, unconstrained by law or morality. The terrorists despise other religions and have defiled their own.

“And they are determined to expand the scale and scope of their murder. The terror that targeted New York and Washington could next strike any center of civilization. Against such an enemy, there is no immunity, and there can be no neutrality.”

“The American Spirit” also includes essays from authors David McCullough and Bob Greene and photographs from Gordon Parks. The book is a sequel to Life’s “One Nation,” a best seller last year.

Animation for a new generation

Minneapolis Oh Davey, welcome back.

Davey and Goliath, the stop-action animated stars of Sunday morning TV in the 1960s, are getting their TV show again.

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America will produce 26 new episodes of the Davey and Goliath show.

The denomination’s predecessor, the United Lutheran Church in America, produced 65 episodes of the Davey and Goliath show and six specials from 1960 to 1971. In the show featured, Davey, a young boy, and his dog Goliath, whom only Davey can hear, face life together.

The shows were made by Art and Ruth Clokey, who also created Gumby and Pokey.

The new shows are expected to go on the air next year.

Remembering Marilyn

Los Angeles Marilyn Monroe still draws a crowd.

On Saturday, hundreds of fans paid homage and soaked up a bit of the screen siren’s legend.

Leslie Kasperowicz, who runs the online Immortal Marilyn Fan Club, led a tour of “Marilyn Homes and Haunts.” More than 30 reverent fans visited 22 sites from Hollywood to Beverly Hills.

“She’s just so beautiful. She’s timeless,” said Monroe look-alike Rebecca Staley, of England. “I just wanted to see it all.”

Monroe died Aug. 5, 1962, at 36 of an overdose of sleeping pills.

Hospital made him sick

Los Angeles Ozzy Osbourne is returning to his rock tour OZZfest sooner than expected after promising to take time off to support his wife, Sharon, during her chemotherapy treatments.

Osbourne left the tour after the July 28 show in Atlanta and planned to return Aug. 22 in Denver. However, he was so disturbed by his wife’s first treatment that she urged him to return sooner, according to a message on his official Internet site.

Osbourne now plans to be back on stage Wednesday in Clarkston, Mich. He missed just two dates of OZZfest Saturday in Columbus, Ohio, and Sunday in Cleveland.