Business as usual for reviewer after surgery

Business as usual for reviewer after surgery\nCHICAGO -- Film critic Roger Ebert is recuperating from follow-up surgery for papillary cancer, a common and curable type of thyroid cancer.\nThe 60-year-old movie reviewer for the Chicago Sun-Times and television audiences underwent the procedure Thursday at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.\n"It went very successfully," a hospital spokeswoman said.\nA year ago, doctors removed Ebert's thyroid gland and selected lymph nodes in his neck. They said at the time that Ebert was expected to make a complete recovery.\nEbert said in a statement Friday that he would attend screenings on Monday and would cover the Oscar nominations on Tuesday.\n"In other words," he said, "it's business as usual."\nLiberace's estate to be sold for $2.75 million\nPALM SPRINGS, Calif. -- The lavish Spanish-style estate where Liberace died 16 years ago is back on the market, for $2.75 million.\nStefan Hemming, who bought the home from Liberace's estate for $750,000 in 1990, said he's selling the home because "it's time to move on."\nBuilt in 1930 by Palm Springs pioneer Alvah Hicks, the building had served as a hotel known as The Cloisters when Liberace bought it in 1967 and renamed it Casa de Liberace.\nLiberace, born Wladziu Valentino Liberace in Wisconsin, died in the house on Feb. 4, 1987, at 67.\nThe 8,000-square-foot home has seven bedrooms and 8 1/2 bathrooms on a half acre.