With former first lady Nancy Reagan watching, President Barack Obama on Tuesday created the Ronald Reagan Centennial Commission, an 11-person panel that will plan and carry out activities to mark the 100th anniversary, in 2011, of the late president’s birth.
That may include issuing a postage stamp, a commemorative $1 coin or convening a joint session of Congress.
Reagan was born on Feb. 6, 1911. He died in June 2004.
Susan Boyle is getting better after an anxiety attack caused by the pressures of her overnight fame and celebrity judge Simon Cowell plans to help her launch a professional career, Cowell’s spokesman said Tuesday.
The Scottish songbird who finished second in the “Britain’s Got Talent” competition landed in a London hospital Sunday night after suffering what one of her brothers described as severe anxiety.
Show judge Amanda Holden and Max Clifford, who represents Cowell, both said Boyle should recover her equilibrium fairly quickly now that she is getting treatment. Holden said Boyle does not have any underlying mental problems.
Clifford said Cowell, the mogul who helped create the show, plans to work with Boyle after she is better to make sure her career gets off to a good start.
NBC says “The Jay Leno Show” will premiere Sept. 14.
The new prime-time hour starring Leno is the first talk-entertainment show to be scheduled by a broadcast network to run five nights a week in prime time.
Leno’s 17-year run on “The Tonight Show” ended last week, with Conan O’Brien taking over Monday as “Tonight” host.
Associated Press
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