Showbuzz
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Wednesday, July 22, 1998 5:52:32 PM
Today's buzz stories:
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Foster
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LOS ANGELES (CNN) -- Academy Award-winning actress Jodie Foster is the mother of a 7 1/2-pound baby boy. Publicist Pat Kingsley said that Charles Foster, Foster's first child, was born just before 6 a.m. Monday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. She returned to her Los Angeles home with her son on Tuesday.
The 35-year-old actress plans to raise her child as a single mother; she is not married and has declined to identify a father. She won best actress Oscars in 1989 ("The Accused") and in 1992 ("Silence of the Lambs"), and made her directorial debut in 1991 with "Little Man Tate," about a mother raising a genius son.
HOLLYWOOD (CNN) -- "Entertainment Tonight" wasn't on hand for Tuesday's premiere of Steven Spielberg's "Saving Private Ryan" -- because it wasn't granted the coveted first camera spot on the red carpet going into the theater. Spielberg's company DreamWorks gave the No. 1 spot to the lower-rated "ET" rival "Access Hollywood," and wouldn't change its mind. Although "ET" is produced by Paramount, which also co-produced "Saving Private Ryan" with DreamWorks, the show wouldn't budge on its policy of not covering premieres unless it has that spot. So "ET" stayed home instead.
LOS ANGELES (CNN) -- Fleetwood Mac singer Stevie Nicks has obtained a restraining order against a Denver psychiatric patient who believes she is a witch who can "heal" him of homosexuality. Ronald Anacelteo, 38, is barred from attending any of Nicks' concerts, venues or recording studios, and from her home and workplace. He is currently in a Denver psychiatric hospital being treated for schizophrenia. According to the restraining order request filed by Nicks' attorney, Anacelteo has also spent time in Arizona, where Nicks has a home.
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Murdoch
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LOS ANGELES (CNN) -- Novelist and philanthropist Anna Murdoch has filed for divorce against her husband of over 30 years, media mogul Rupert Murdoch, citing irreconcilable differences. The Murdochs have been separated since April. Anna Murdoch has requested spousal support and will keep her married name, according to a petition filed Tuesday in Los Angeles County Superior Court. She will remain on the board of Murdoch's News Corp, which runs the Fox News Channel, owns the Los Angeles Dodgers, and produces movies and television as Twentieth Century Fox.
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Bowie
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LOS ANGELES (CNN) -- Rocker David Bowie says he will launch his own Internet Service Provider (ISP) in September. BowieNet (www.davidbowie.com) will offer Internet service across North America for $19.95/month, to expand worldwide later in the year. Said Bowie: "I wanted to create an environment where not just my fans but all music lovers could be a part of the same community."
Reuters contributed to this report.
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