Gregory Honored for Leadership and Civil Rights Work
Dick Gregory, 67, renowned civil rights activist and comedian, was honored at the Kennedy Center for reflections on his career and humanitarian work. The event featured Bill Cosby as MC and appearances by Stevie Wonder Ossie Davis Ruby Dee Cicely Tyson and Coretta Scott King. Gregory had risen from a weighty stand-up act to advocate health and social causes after helping open doors for Black entertainers. He was diagnosed with lymphoma last year.
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LeDoux Recovers After Liver Transplant
Kris LeDoux, 51, former rodeo cowboy and country singer with over five million albums sold, is recovering from a liver transplant at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha. He faced a bile duct disease that caused cirrhosis after two months on the transplant list. Publicist Emily Burton says the procedure went well and he has been walking.
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Oprah star finds Dallas bride for energy chief after audience
Mike Mullen of Dallas, 50, married Tiffany Kornegay, a model in her mid-20s, at an English estate in Dallas with about 400 guests including Bob Crandall and Herb Kelleher. Mullen, CEO of Energy Equipment Resource Inc, met her through mutual friends after dating many contestants from The Oprah Winfrey Show in 1998. The couple planned a March engagement and a honeymoon in Sweden and Paris.
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Winona Ryder Receives Hollywood Walk of Fame Star
Winona Ryder unveiled her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame the 2 165th along Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street with about 500 fans including Anthony Hopkins. The ceremony aligned with the film Lost Souls and highlighted her roles in Girl Interrupted Edward Scissorhands Reality Bites The Age of Innocence and Little Women which earned an Oscar.
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