Former 'Cosby' star buys school for mom
Actress Phylicia Rashad played the mother of several schoolchildren on the long-running television show "The Cosby Show." Now she's bought a school for her mother.Rashad and her mother, Chester, S.C., native Vivian Ayers Allen, are leading a renovation of the Brainerd Institute, a historic black school. Allen was one of the last graduates there.
Brainerd Institute was considered an exceptional black school during its years of operation, from 1866 to 1939. The school was founded by Presbyterian missionaries as a day, night and Sunday school for freed slaves and became known as the state's largest and oldest school for blacks, a feeder school for Benedict College, Johnson C. Smith and Howard University.
Sheen may replace Fox on 'Spin City'
The hit television sitcom "Spin City" may survive the departure of its star, Michael J. Fox.
When Fox, who plays a hard-charging deputy mayor of New York, leaves the show at the end of the season, he may be replaced by Charlie Sheen, Time reports in the issue that hit newsstands Monday.
ABC and the show's production company, DreamWorks, are talking to Sheen about joining the cast, which includes Barry Bostwick and Heather Locklear.
One catch: The show is filmed in New York, where Fox lives, and would have to move to Los Angeles to accommodate Sheen.
Kennedy in hospital with viral infection
Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., is undergoing observation at a Washington hospital for a viral illness that his spokesman said caused back and shoulder pain.
Kennedy, 67, was admitted to Sibley Memorial Hospital on Sunday after experiencing a fever and cough the previous evening, spokesman Will Keyser said.
"He is in good spirits, he is resting comfortably and he felt good enough to watch the America's Cup race last night," Keyser said Sunday.
'Hurricane's' advice: Hang on to dreams
Rubin "Hurricane" Carter said that daring to dream was what kept him going while he was imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit.
"The dream was the only thing that kept me alive," the one-time boxing great told an audience at Albion College on Friday. "Dare to dream."
Carter talked about his boxing triumphs, imprisonment for a triple homicide in 1966, his life on death row, his release in 1988 and his fame today.
Actor Denzel Washington portrays Carter in the recent movie about his life, "The Hurricane."