ACTOR Christopher Reeve is using his influence to seek changes in US health care laws.
Paralysed and on a respirator due to a fall from a horse last Reeve says financial caps on long term health benefits need to be raised. His own policy has a 51.2 million lifetime cap, but with health care costs estimated at $400,000 per year, the actor will soon hit that limit.
Jerry Siegel, who as a teenager in the US Depression co created superman and started a craze for comic book superheroes that has never abated, has died at age 81, the publishers of Superman comics said.
Cats, the Andrew Lloyd Webber show based on poems by T. S. Eliot, has become the world's longest running musical with 6,138 performances. First staged at the New London Theatre in 1981, it has earned more than £1 billion worldwide. Nine productions are running, from New York to Tokyo.
Ian Hislop, TV celebrity and editor of Private Eye, is to stand down as a candidate for the post of Rector of Glasgow University in favour of a Saudi dissident. Hislop urged his student supporters to vote for Prof Muhammad al Masari, the London based dissident ordered to be deported from Britain earlier this month.
German conductor Gert Albrecht has said he will resign early from the Prague Philharmonic, following weeks of controversy and his failure to repair relations with Czech President Vaclav Havel.
A leader without power is not a leader. Despite all my efforts, I have not succeeded in developing relations with Vaclav Havel," Albrecht said.
Paul McCartney found himself a new backing group yesterday John Major, Tony Blair and Paddy Ashdown.
The leaders of British politics gave their support to the launch of his new "Fame" school the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts.