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Published: October 17, 2008
■ Nancy Reagan is being deluged with calls and flowers from well-wishers as she recovers from a broken pelvis at a hospital in a Los Angeles. Reagan spokeswoman Joanne Drake said yesterday that Reagan, 87, has been taking calls from around the country since it was disclosed that she broke her pelvis in a fall at home. She said that Reagan hoped to go home by the weekend.
■ DJ AM was back on the decks for the first time since surviving a plane crash. He joined Jay-Z at a special concert Wednesday celebrating the reopening of the Hollywood Palladium, the historic venue that once was the location for shows by Frank Sinatra, The Lawrence Welk Show, Led Zeppelin and the Emmy Awards. The concert was DJ AM's first performance since surviving a plane crash Sept. 19 with Travis Barker, the former drummer for Blink-182, at the main airport in Columbia, S.C.
■ Recordings by Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes, who died six years ago, will be released as a solo album Nov. 11. The album features songs that Lopes recorded but never released, family friend Jay Marose said Wednesday. Lopes, who was part of the hit '90s group TLC, was killed in a car wreck in Honduras on April 25, 2002. Proceeds from the album will benefit Lopes' foundation, which plans to build orphanages and schools in Honduras.
■ Actor Ryan O'Neal, 67, and his son, Redmond, were charged Wednesday with possession of methamphetamine. Both face felony drug-possession charges, Deputy District Attorney James Garrison said. Redmond O'Neal, 23, also faces misdemeanor charges for possession of drug paraphernalia and possession of pepper spray. He and his father are scheduled to be arraigned Nov. 13. O'Neal and his son were arrested Sept. 17 after sheriff's deputies searched their Malibu, Calif., house as part of Redmond O'Neal's probation.
■ The estate of a department-store heir says in a lawsuit that Jay Leno was illegally sold a valuable automobile at a sham auction. The lawsuit was filed Tuesday in Manhattan by the estate of Macy's heir John W. Straus. It says that a 1931 Duesenberg was sold to Leno, the host of the Tonight Show, at an auction held to take that car and a 1930 Rolls Royce while Straus was ill. Court papers say that Leno, an avid car collector, bought the Duesenberg and someone else bought the Rolls. The suit says the cars were worth $1.7 million and were in a Manhattan garage for more than 50 years. Straus died in May at 88, and the suit says he paid all that was owed to store the cars.
Deaths
■ Edie Adams, 81, of pneumonia and cancer, at a Los Angeles hospital. She won a Tony Award for bringing Daisy Mae to life on Broadway and played the television foil to her husband, comedian Ernie Kovacs.
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