■ Emmy-winning actress Christina Applegate is undergoing treatment for breast cancer, but the disease was caught early and she is expected to fully recover, her publicist said. The cancer was detected through an MRI ordered by a doctor and is not life-threatening, Applegate's publicist, Ame Van Iden, said in a statement Saturday. Applegate is scheduled to appear on a one-hour television special, Stand Up to Cancer, to be shown on ABC, CBS and NBC on Sept. 5 to raise money for cancer research. She has been nominated for an Emmy and a Golden Globe for the show Samantha Who?
■ Known for alternating between mainstream Hollywood and independent films, John Cusack says that his latest movie, Shanghai, is a rare middle ground between the two genres. Speaking during a set visit in Bangkok, Thailand, over the weekend, Cusack, 42, called Shanghai a unique project that combines the artistry of independent film with the resources of a commercial movie. "To do something that has a big budget, a great scope with a great director and great actors that has the quality and level of writing and the level of production design ... is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity," Cusack said.
■ She might be known worldwide as the Material Girl, but there's more than a little of the small-town Michigan girl left in Madonna. The pop superstar arrived in Traverse City, Mich., Saturday to introduce her documentary, I Am Because We Are, a highlight of the Traverse City Film Festival. The film festival was co-founded by filmmaker, author and fellow Michigan native Michael Moore. Madonna and Moore shared the stage at the theater before a screening of the movie, which deals with the orphans of Malawi, the African nation where she and husband Guy Ritchie adopted a son.
■ Comedian Bernie Mac is in a Chicago hospital with pneumonia. His publicist, Danica Smith, says in a statement that Mac, 50, is responding well to treatment and is expected to be released soon. Smith said that the pneumonia isn't related to an inflammatory lung disease that Mac also has. That condition has been in remission since 2005. Mac is a Chicago native who lives in the southern suburbs. He made waves last month with off-color jokes during a Chicago fundraiser for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.
Deaths
■ John F. Seiberling, 89, of respiratory failure at his home near Akron. He was a former Democratic representative from Ohio who served on the committee that led impeachment hearings against President Richard Nixon and laid the groundwork for Ohio's only national park.... Perez Celis, 69, after suffering with leukemia, in Buenos Aires. He was a prestigious Argentine muralist, painter and sculptor.
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