Madonna suffers broken bones in horseback riding accident
New York - Madonna's 47th birthday celebration was marred when she suffered several broken bones in a horse riding accident at her country home outside London, her publicist told The Associated Press on Tuesday.
The superstar was hospitalized with three cracked ribs, a broken collarbone and a broken hand, according to Liz Rosenberg, her spokeswoman based in New York.
The accident occurred Tuesday at Ashcombe house, her estate outside of London.
Madonna and an assistant were riding horses, when Madonna, on a new horse she wasn't accustomed to riding, took a tumble. Her children, Rocco and Lourdes, were at the home but were not with their mother at the time, Rosenberg said.
"The whole family was out in the country, celebrating her birthday," Rosenberg said.
Her husband, director Guy Ritchie, took Madonna to an undisclosed hospital, where she was treated. Rosenberg said the entertainer was expected to be released later in the evening.
Tommy Lee discovers love of botany at UNL
Los Angeles - Of all the classes Tommy Lee took at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln for his NBC reality show, "Tommy Lee Goes to College," the subject he really connected with was botany.
"I think I was a tree or something in a past life," the 42-year-old rocker told reporters recently, according to AP Radio. "I've always been attracted to nature. After owning several homes and landscaping them, and going to the nurseries and picking stuff out that I love, I just always have liked trees and plants and flowers.
"Call me kooky, but that's just the way it is."
Kathie Lee joins 'The Insider'
New York - Kathie Lee Gifford will join anchor Pat O'Brien on "The Insider" next month as a special correspondent for the syndicated entertainment-magazine show.
Beginning Sept. 12, Gifford will appear at least two days a week to cover "big name celebrity interviews and the Broadway beat," Paramount Domestic Television announced Monday.
Gifford was co-host of the syndicated "Live With Regis & Kathie Lee" with Regis Philbin for 15 years. She left the show five years ago.
Former Drifter celebrates 80th birthday
Columbia, S.C. - Bill Pinkney relished the shuffle and slide steps of beach music fans on a parquet floor as they helped celebrate his 80th birthday.
"I hope that I live to be 100 years old," Pinkney, one of the original members of The Drifters, said as he blew out an "80" candle on his birthday cake Monday.
Beach music is a distinctive brand of rhythm and blues associated with shag dancing and the Carolinas.
The Drifters' hits include "Money Honey," "Honey Love," "Under the Boardwalk" and "Save the Last Dance for Me."
Pinkney left the band in 1958 in a rift over money.
Keillor gets 'Almanac' back
Minneapolis - A public radio station in Kentucky has reversed its decision to cancel Garrison Keillor's "The Writer's Almanac" over concerns about offensive content, after what station officials said was an outpouring of support.
WUKY-FM, based in Lexington, canceled the show in early August. The daily spot runs a few minutes and features Keillor noting important milestones in writing history, after which he typically reads a poem.
Recent poems had included words such as "breast" and the phrase "get high." Another included suggestive sexual content, according to WUKY General Manager Tom Goddell.
A newspaper article last week about the cancellation prompted a flood of phone calls and e-mails demanding the show stay on the air, Goddell said. He said that was enough for the station, since the FCC is charged with considering community standards in its content decisions.
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