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Published: August 18, 2008
■ Chevy Chase provided a crucial run, and Alec Baldwin officiated. Chase blasted a line drive that helped turn the tide in favor of the Artists team when it was down 2-0 in a star-studded Hamptons charity softball game against the Writers. The Artists went on to win 4-2, their second victory in the series in two years. Baldwin was an umpire for Saturday's contest at the far east end of Long Island. It was the 60th installment of the annual Artists and Writers Game, and it raised more than $60,000 for hospice, day-care and drug-rehabilitation services. It also was played in memory of actor Roy Scheider, a veteran of the Artists team, who died in February at age 75.
■ President Bush praised Olympic champion Michael Phelps yesterday for his performance in the swimming pool and outside it. "If you can handle eight gold medals, you can handle anything," Bush told the record-breaking medalist in a telephone call to Beijing from his Texas ranch. Phelps won eight gold medals, eclipsing Mark Spitz's seven-gold performance at the 1972 Munich Games. Phelps now has an astonishing 14 golds in his career, five more than any Olympian ever. In the call, Bush said he and first lady Laura Bush were thrilled by Phelps' achievement and that the swimmer had handled himself with "humility,"
■ There was much dancing: Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi are married, according to reports. In the biggest celebrity union since California legalized same-sex marriage, DeGeneres, 50, and de Rossi, 35, wed Saturday night in an intimate ceremony at their Beverly Hills home, People and Us magazines reported. After a California Supreme Court's ruling in May, the talk-show host announced that she and de Rossi would get married after four years together. The ceremony was attended by 19 guests, including DeGeneres' mom, Betty, and de Rossi's mother, Margaret Rogers, who had flown in from Australia.
■ A 65-year-old retired British bullfighter who had knee replacement and quadruple bypass surgery strutted back into the ring yesterday in Spain and won two trophies -- the ears of the beast he had just slain. The setting was anything but grand for Frank Evans: a lowest-possible-category ring in a hillside village practically in the middle of nowhere. Still, there stood Spain's only British bullfighter, a slightly built father of two and grandfather of five, taking on a black specimen weighing 925 pounds. "It felt fantastic. It is where I am happiest," Evans said.
Deaths
■ Leroy Sievers, 53, of cancer, at his home in Maryland. He was a National Public Radio commentator who turned his battle with cancer into a popular radio and online series. A report on his own chemotherapy treatments in February 2006 prompted an enthusiastic response from the audience.
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