Roger Ebert to undergo \nradiation for cancer
CHICAGO -- Film critic Roger Ebert will undergo radiation treatment for cancer next month.\nThe treatment will be for a cancerous tumor in Ebert's salivary gland, the Chicago Sun-Times reported in its Wednesday editions.\nThe 61-year-old critic underwent surgery twice in February 2002 for cancer in his thyroid and salivary gland.\nHe said treatment for the malignant tumor will begin later this month after he returns from a family trip to France.\n"I will, however, continue to see movies, write reviews and do the 'Ebert & Roeper' television show," Ebert wrote Tuesday in an e-mail message to friends. "The treatments are a follow up to earlier surgery, and I look forward to a complete recovery; this is not considered to be a life-threatening form of cancer.\n"P.S. By the way, my thyroid cancer has been completely vanquished."\nEbert said he's had a tumor in his salivary gland "in one form or another" for 16 years. He said the treatments will take 20 minutes a day, five days a week for eight weeks.\nEbert has been a film critic at the Chicago Sun-Times since 1967. He won the Pulitzer Prize for criticism in 1975, the same year he teamed up with the late Gene Siskel of the rival Chicago Tribune to launch their movie-review show.
CNN anchor fined for leaving accident
NEW YORK -- CNN anchor Jack Cafferty will pay a $250 fine and perform 70 hours of community service after pleading guilty to leaving the scene of an accident, prosecutors said Tuesday.\nCafferty had been charged with the traffic infraction, along with misdemeanor charges of reckless driving, assault and harassment, after police said he knocked a man off a bike with his Cadillac on May 14.\n"This was never anything more than a traffic incident. It was resolved as a traffic infraction. Jack acted responsibly in this, as he always has," said Cafferty's lawyer, Seth Rosenberg.\nCafferty is an anchor on "American Morning."\nA traffic officer and about five pedestrians ran after Cafferty's car to stop him after the accident, but Cafferty drove through at least two red lights and around other vehicles without stopping, according to a police complaint. \nCafferty was dragging the man's bike underneath his car, police said.\nCafferty later told police that he had seen a man on a bike who may have been a messenger weaving in and out of traffic as Cafferty drove south along Ninth Avenue around 10:25 a.m. When Cafferty looked in his mirror, he saw the man getting up off the ground but was unaware he had hit the bicyclist, the anchor told police.\nThe bicyclist, Billy Maldonado, told police he was slightly injured.
Raquel Welch separates from fourth husband
LOS ANGELES -- Raquel Welch has separated from husband Richard Palmer, her publicist said.\nThe "Fantastic Voyage" actress married Palmer, her fourth husband, in 1999 at her Beverly Hills home. Palmer is owner of Mulberry Street Italian restaurant in Beverly Hills and Richie's Neighborhood Pizza stores.\nIn announcing their separation in a joint press release, Palmer and Welch said there was no third party involved and that the separation was amicable.\nDivorce papers had not been filed, according to Welch publicist Jill Bushinsky, who said Tuesday she also spoke on behalf of Palmer.\nWelch, who won a Golden Globe for her work in "The Three Musketeers," also has appeared in the films "Tortilla Soup," "Bedazzled" and 1966's "One Million Years B.C.," which featured a poster of her in a revealing animal-skin outfit that became a pin-up favorite.
