Sarah Jessica's cover-up
Tel Aviv, Israel -- A cosmetics billboard advertisement of Sarah Jessica Parker in Tel Aviv has run afoul of religious groups. The billboard showed Parker, of "Sex and the City" fame, wearing a revealing dress. Workers then changing the billboard to display more modest attire on Parker. The change was made after members of the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community threatened to boycott the company's products.
Cojocaru hopes surgery soon
New York -- Red-carpet fashion maven Steven Cojocaru, who has polycystic kidney disease, says he hopes to have a transplant operation in early winter.
"There is a bit of a window right now where I have some kidney function," Cojocaru said Tuesday on NBC's "Today" show. "But basically I have to get a kidney transplant as soon as possible. We're talking sometime in the near future, hopefully early winter."
Of his new effort to raise awareness about organ donation, Cojocaru said on the "Today" show, "I want to do that big time. You know? It didn't start out that way. This has been a process. But ... I think we know that I have the biggest mouth in Hollywood, and maybe I can finally do something good. You know?"
Ozzy wants his bling back
London -- Rocker Ozzy Osbourne and his wife, Sharon, made a televised appeal to the British public Tuesday for help in recovering jewelry worth nearly $2 million snatched from their English country estate.
The couple provided details of approximately seven items of jewelry stolen by a burglar from their mansion in Buckinghamshire just before dawn Monday.
Osbourne, 55, confirmed he had grabbed the intruder, who struggled free and jumped out of a first-floor window -- but said that had probably been a bad idea.
"In hindsight, it could have been a lot worse. I could have been like George Harrison. I just thank God that no one got injured," he said. The late Beatle was stabbed by an intruder at his mansion in rural England in 1999.
Another 'Friend' comes back
Remember that HBO comedy series that former "Sex and the City" producer Michael Patrick King was developing for ex-"Friend" Lisa Kudrow?
Well, HBO execs obviously like what they've seen so far, because the network has ordered 13 episodes of "The Comeback," reports TV Guide Online.
The show stars Kudrow as a former sitcom star who is trying to revive her career.
Matt LeBlanc was the first "Friends" star to land a sitcom, reprising his role as the dimwitted Joey Tribbiani in "Joey."
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