Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: TUESDAY, April 3, 1990 TAG: 9004030319
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Estefan has been at the Orthopedic Institute Hospital for Joint Diseases, where doctors on March 22 implanted two steel rods in her back.
She will be released Wednesday, said hospital spokeswoman Mary Costello.
The operation came one day after she was injured when her tour bus was struck by a tractor-trailer in northeast Pennsylvania. Doctors said after surgery that it would take the Cuban-born performer up to six months to fully recover.
Whoopi Goldberg doesn't see moving from the stage and screen to a situation comedy as a step down.
"As a girl from the projects, I'm not at all disappointed in the way things are going. This is what I've always dreamed about. And I'm still here, which is the phenomenal thing," the comedian said in the April 9 issue of People magazine.
Goldberg, who went from an acclaimed one-woman Broadway show to the lead in Steven Spielberg's movie "The Color Purple," stars with Jean Stapleton in "Bagdad Cafe" on CBS.
Jean Harris may keep the $35,000 she earned from a magazine excerpt of her book because it deals with her life in prison, not her crime, a New York judge says.
The judge ruled that the state Crime Victims Board erred in applying the state's "Son of Sam Law."
The law, named after a 1970s serial killer, was aimed at preventing criminals from profiting from their crimes by writing books, television or film scripts. It requires the criminal to turn over to the victims board any proceeds earned.
Harris, a former headmistress at the Madeira School in Northern Virginia, was convicted in 1981 of killing diet doctor Herman Tarnower, her lover for 10 years. She is serving 15 years to life at a prison in Bedford Hills, N.Y.
by CNB