TV & VIDEO - April 20, 1988

It’s a star-bedded week at Cedars Sinai Medical Center, what with Eddie Van Halen, James Garner, Sid Caesar and Morey Amsterdam all patients at the hospital. Garner, 60, and Van Halen, 33, entered Cedars Monday; while Caesar, 66, and Amsterdam, 76, have been confined to the medical center for several days, hospital spokesman Ron Wise said. Van Halen, was stricken by a tropical virus after a recent vacation in Fiji, his publicist said. The rocker was expected to be out in two to three days and is due to start rehearsals for a national tour in May. Amsterdam, best known as Buddy on “The Dick Van Dyke Show,” had blood clots removed from each leg and was reported “doing very well,” by spokesman Wise, who said he didn’t know when Amsterdam would be released. Caesar, who had hernia surgery two weeks ago, was being treated for a staph infection and Garner was undergoing a series of tests in preparation for heart surgery Thursday. The operation was described by a Garner spokesman as a “re-section of an abdominal aortic aneurysm” and is expected to take three hours.