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Published: September 8, 2008
■ Since being found to have brain cancer, Robert Novak has lost partial vision and undergone surgery at Duke University Medical Center to remove a tumor, the conservative political commentator wrote in a column published Saturday. In a piece titled "My brain tumor brings out the best in people" posted on the Chicago Sun-Times' Web site, Novak details his life since his diagnosis, including losing his way to his longtime office and having seizures. "I have lost not only left peripheral vision but nearly all my left vision, probably permanently," Novak wrote.
■ Authorities in Utah said that a truck driven by actor Gary Coleman hit a man on his foot after the two argued in a bowling alley. Police Lt. Bill Wright said that Coleman and Colt Rushton argued over pictures Rushton was taking inside the bowling alley in the town of Payson, Utah. Wright said that Coleman was backing out of a parking spot after midnight Saturday when he hit Rushton. Police said that it is unclear whether Coleman hit the man on purpose.
■ Pop star turned country singer Jessica Simpson told a crowd during her Grand Ole Opry debut that she burst into tears the first time she heard the song "Remember That" and knew God wanted her to sing it. "It's a very personal song for a lot of women," Simpson told the audience Saturday in introducing the track from her new album Do You Know. Written by Rachel Proctor and Victoria Banks, the song deals with abuse and ends with the line, "Take it from me, I've stood in your shoes."
■ Tommy Lee Jones is suing the makers of No Country for Old Men for more than $10 million that he claims he is owed for starring in the 2007 hit crime thriller. The lawsuit against Paramount Pictures claims that Jones was promised "significant box-office bonuses" and other compensation depending on the success of the film, which went on to make more than $160 million.
Deaths
■ Anita Page, 98, in Los Angeles. She was an MGM actress who appeared in films with Lon Chaney, Joan Crawford and Buster Keaton during the transition from silent movies to talkies. Page's career spanned 84 years. Most recently, she had a cameo in the horror film Frankenstein Rising, due out later this year…. Robert Giroux, 94, in New York. He was a distinguished giant of 20th-century publishing who guided and supported dozens of great writers, from T.S. Eliot and Jack Kerouac to Bernard Malamud and Susan Sontag.... Fon B. Huffman, 95, in Sierra Vista, Ariz. He is believed to be the last survivor of the 1937 Japanese attack on the gunboat USS Panay outside Nanjing, China…. Alain Jacquet, 69, of cancer, in New York. He was a French pop artist known for his variations on famous paintings.
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