Falco healthy after cancer bout

New York — “Sopranos” star Edie Falco was diagnosed last year with breast cancer, but has completed her treatment and is healthy, a representative for the 41-year-old actress told The Associated Press.

Falco worked on the HBO show during her treatment, but her representative wouldn’t comment Wednesday on whether she underwent chemotherapy or surgery.

She will soon begin rehearsals for Marsha Norman’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, “‘night, Mother,” also starring Brenda Blethyn, which will open on Broadway in November.

Falco has won three Emmy Awards for her role as mob wife Carmela Soprano on “The Sopranos,” and has been nominated for a fourth Emmy this year.

McGregor’s beard feared

Ewan McGregor’s wife, Eve, says her actor husband must shave off the beard he grew during his three-month, 20,000-mile motorcycle trek because it might scare their kids.

She said it made him look like a Hells Angel and that it would frighten their daughters, Esther and Clara, World Entertainment News Network reported Wednesday.

McGregor plans to shave off the beard to raise funds for the United Nations Children’s Fund. The motorcycle journey was filmed for a documentary, “Long Way Round.”

Sting named top humanitarian

Sting has been selected by the American Screenwriters Assn. (ASA) to receive the prestigious David Angell Humanitarian Award.

The award is named in memory of David Angell, an admired and respected Emmy-winning writer/producer for television shows such as “Cheers,” “Wings” and “Frasier,” who perished with his wife, Lynn, in the Sept. 11 attacks. The award was established by ASA to honor individuals in the entertainment industry who contribute to global welfare through selfless efforts to improve the human condition.

Sting’s support for human rights organizations like the Rainforest Foundation, Amnesty International, Live Aid, the Juvenile Diabetes’ Carousel of Hope and the Elton John AIDS Foundation mirrors his art in its universal outreach.