‘Sex’ star heads to stage

London– Former “Sex and the City” star Kim Cattrall is to make her London stage debut next year in “Whose Life Is It Anyway?”

Peter Hall will direct Cattrall in an updated version of Brian Clark’s 1978 drama about a sculptor paralyzed in a road accident who seeks the right to die.

Mary Tyler Moore won a Tony Award in 1980 for playing the role on Broadway. The play was filmed the next year with Richard Dreyfuss in the lead.

Previews for “Whose Life Is It Anyway” begin Jan. 7. The play is scheduled to open Jan. 25 for a 16-week run at the Duke of York’s theater.

Not just a sandwich

San Luis Obispo, Calif. — Impressed with a tasty sandwich, Oprah Winfrey decided to invest in the Art Cafe and Bakery.

“It turns out this was the most expensive sandwich I’ve ever had,” Winfrey said Sunday after a restaurant photo shoot for the October issue of her magazine, O.

A few weeks ago, Winfrey ate a chicken curry sandwich from the cafe and was overwhelmed. She offered to buy the place. Less than 24 hours later, the talk-show host sent cafe owner and chef Margaux Sky a check — the amount wasn’t disclosed.

Rapper charged again with murder

Baton Rouge, La. — Rapper C-Murder, who is awaiting trial in Jefferson Parish on murder charges, has been indicted by a Baton Rouge grand jury on attempted second-degree murder charges in an unrelated case.

The rapper, whose real name is Corey Miller, is accused of shooting at a Baton Rouge club owner and patron Aug. 14, 2001.

In September, a jury convicted Miller of second-degree murder in the killing of a 16-year-old at a Jefferson Parish nightclub Jan. 12, 2002. A state judge ordered that Miller receive a new trial because prosecutors withheld information about witnesses.

Cruz twice denied U.S. visa

Miami — Celia Cruz, a Cuban exile who later became an anti-communist icon of the Cuban-American exile community, was refused an artist’s visa to visit America at least twice in the 1950s, according to recently declassified documents.

Her once-classified 32-page FBI file said she was a “well-known communist singer and stage star,” according to a story published Sunday in The Miami Herald. The alleged activities predate Fidel Castro’s 1959 communist revolution on the island, during a time when Cruz was in her teens and 20s.

She died last summer at 77.

Cruz was first refused a visa in May 1952, the Herald reported, based on documents it obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request. She was then refused again in July 1955 under a provision of the Immigration and Nationality Act that weeds out suspected subversives.

Cruz eventually got permission to visit the United States in 1957. She traveled to New York again in 1960, to perform, and was granted asylum in 1961.