People – Madonna Shows Film in Michigan
She might be known worldwide as the Material Girl, but there’s more than a little of the small-town Michigan girl left in Madonna.
The pop superstar arrived in the northern Michigan resort town of Traverse City Saturday to introduce her documentary, “I Am Because We Are,” a highlight of the Traverse City Film Festival. The event was co-founded by filmmaker, author and fellow Michigan native Michael Moore .
Madonna and Moore shared the stage at the theater before a screening of the movie, which deals with the orphans of Malawi, the African nation where she and husband Guy Ritchie adopted a son.
Applegate diagnosed with cancer
Christina Applegate is undergoing treatment for breast cancer, but the disease was caught early and the actress is expected to fully recover, her publicist said.
The Emmy winner’s cancer was detected through an MRI ordered by a doctor and is not life-threatening, publicist Ame Van Iden said in a statement Saturday.
Applegate is scheduled to appear on a one-hour television special, “Stand Up To Cancer,” to be aired on ABC, CBS and NBC on Sept. 5 to raise funds for cancer research.
The 36-year-old actress has been nominated for an Emmy and a Golden Globe for the show “Samantha Who?”, in which she plays a woman who wakes from a coma with no memory of who she is.
Bernie Mac treated for pneumonia
Bernie Mac is in a Chicago hospital with pneumonia.
His publicist, Danica Smith , says in a statement that the 50- year-old comedian is responding well to treatment and should be released soon. He remained hospitalized Saturday.
Smith says the pneumonia isn’t related to an inflammatory lung disease that Mac also has. That condition has been in remission since 2005.
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Today’s birthdays
Actress Tina Cole (“My Three Sons”), 65; actor Billy Bob Thornton , 53; drummer Rob Cieka of Boo Radleys, 40; actor Daniel Dae Kim (“Lost”), 40; rapper Yo-Yo (“Miss Rap Supreme”), 37; actor Andy Hallett (“Angel”), 33; singer-actor Marques Houston of Immature, 27; actors Dylan and Cole Sprouse (“Big Daddy,”"Grace Under Fire”), 16.
Weekend Box Office
1. “The Dark Knight,” $43.8 million.
2. “The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor,” $42.5 million.
3. “Step Brothers,” $16.3 million.
4. “Mamma Mia!”, $13.1 million.
5. “Journey to the Center of the Earth,” $6.9 million.
6. “Swing Vote,” $6.3 million.
7. “Hancock,” $5.2 million.
8. “WALL-E,” $4.7 million.
9. “The X-Files: I Want to Believe,” $3.4 million.
10. “Space Chimps,” $2.8 million.
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