Reuters - Michael Douglas said on Tuesday he felt optimistic about recovering from throat cancer but drew gasps when he told a television audience he had the most advanced stage.

AP - Michael Douglas says he faces an "eight-week struggle" against throat cancer but is optimistic about his chances for recovery.

Reuters - Politically minded actor John Cusack has picked a fight with Fox News, and both of them have dealt the "death" card from the bottom of the deck.

AP - The judge in the Anna Nicole Smith drug conspiracy trial said Tuesday he doubted prosecutors can prove key charges against two doctors and the lawyer-boyfriend of the late Playboy model.

AP - It's a political memoir with celebrity trappings — secrecy, security, a multimillion-dollar deal and, crucially, controversy.

Reuters - Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor was returned to the hospital after slipping into unconsciousness on Tuesday following a series of health-related setbacks since breaking her hip in July.

AP - Hidden from critics until just before its release, the dirty secret about "The American" turns out to be that it's an "art film." Heavens, no!

AFP - Former British prime minister Tony Blair said he was "desperately sorry" over the deaths in the Iraq war, in extracts released Tuesday from his memoirs.

AFP - A daughter of former New York mayor Rudolf Giuliani was sentenced Tuesday to one day's work in service to community for stealing items from a cosmetics store, the prosecutor's office said.

Jordin Sparks, the "American Idol" finalist who recently made her Broadway debut as Nina in In the Heights, injured her hip at the evening performance Aug. 28 at the Richard Rodgers Theatre.