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AP - A spokeswoman for Bernie Mac says the actor is responding well to treatment for pneumonia and hopes to be released in the next few weeks. Publicist Danica Smith said Thursday in a statement that Mac's condition is "stable." Smith first announced on August 1st that Mac was hospitalized in Chicago.

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah -- Julianne Hough brought Access Hollywood along on a recent visit to the Huntsman Cancer Institute in her hometown of Salt Lake City, where the "Dancing With the Stars" two-time winner and country sweetheart met with fans battling the disease.

"It's so hard to see anyone going through cancer," she told Access. "You try to keep it together while you're there."

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Reuters - Mr. Blackwell, the fashion maven whose annual "Worst-Dressed" list can be the bane of Hollywood celebrities, is in a coma after falling at his home, his partner and manager said on Thursday.

AP - Mary J. Blige has been sued in New York for $2 million by a company that says she stole some of the music she used on her latest hit album, including one used on an iPod commercial.

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AP - Acid-tongued fashion critic Mr. Blackwell regained consciousness in a hospital Thursday as he battled a serious infection, his publicist said.

Reuters - Comic actor Bernie Mac, hospitalized recently for pneumonia, is "responding well to treatment" and hopes to be released in the next few weeks, his spokeswoman said on Thursday.

AP - Dixie Chick Emily Robison and her husband, singer Charlie Robison, have divorced.

AP - Erik Darling, the reedy-voiced guitarist and banjo player who deftly stepped in when Pete Seeger left the pioneering folk music group The Weavers, has died after battling lymphoma. He was 74.

Reuters - It's a very long way from starring as the stoner rebel of "Easy Rider" to playing a presidential nominee in the new Disney comedy "Swing Vote," which is now in U.S. theaters, but for Dennis Hopper it's all in a day's work. Or make that a life's work.