Melissa Etheridge is jumping back into recording and performing after spending much of the last year fighting breast cancer.
The 44-year-old rocker has appearances booked for October, when her greatest hits collection, “The Road Less Traveled,” is due for release.
“I would say I’m 97 percent back now,” Etheridge said. “It is very hard. … Chemotherapy is so hard on a person. And I would say I’m fully recovered, yeah.”
Etheridge took to the stage with a shaved head but strong voice at the Grammy Awards in February for a Janis Joplin tribute – and received a standing ovation.
In an interview Wednesday with syndicated TV show “Extra,” Etheridge said she and actress Tammy Lynn Michaels, with whom she held a commitment ceremony in September 2003, are considering having a baby.
Jerry Seinfeld, Paul Simon battle autism
Jerry Seinfeld and Paul Simon will perform together for one night only to raise money for research into autism.
The concert will be held Sept. 24 at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles and hosted by Tom Brokaw of NBC News. It will benefit Autism Speaks, a not-for-profit organization launched earlier this year by NBC Universal boss Bob Wright and his wife, Suzanne.
“I became aware of autism through some friends who are dealing with it, and it is heartbreaking,” Seinfeld said. “I wanted to do something to help address this problem and decided to do a show to raise funds for research.”
Tickets will be available beginning Aug. 15. Prices start at $100.
CNN suspends Novak for swearing, walking off set
CNN suspended commentator Robert Novak indefinitely after he swore and walked off the set Thursday during a debate with Democratic operative James Carville.
The exchange during CNN’s “Inside Politics” came during a discussion of Florida’s Senate campaign. CNN correspondent Ed Henry noted when it was through that he had been about to ask Novak about his role in the investigation of the leak of a CIA officer’s identity.
A CNN spokeswoman, Edie Emery, called Novak’s behavior “inexcusable and unacceptable.” Novak had apologized to CNN, and CNN was apologizing to viewers, she said.
“We’ve asked Mr. Novak to take some time off,” she said.
Robert Blake allegedly wanted first wife killed
The first wife of actor Robert Blake claims in a court deposition that the actor tried to have her killed after the couple separated.
Sondra Kerr Blake gave her deposition in May in a Los Angeles attorney’s office as part of a wrongful-death lawsuit brought against the actor in the shooting death of his second wife. He was acquitted in March of Bonnie Lee Bakley’s slaying.
Details of the deposition were first reported Wednesday in the New York Daily News.
The woman, who was married to Blake for more than 20 years, testified that several people told her in the mid-1970s the actor took out a “contract” to kill her and her boyfriend.
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