California IN BRIEF : LOS ALAMITOS : Lancaster Released From Hospital

Actor Burt Lancaster has been released from Los Alamitos Hospital and transferred to an undisclosed location, where he is undergoing extensive physical and speech therapy, hospital officials said. Officials declined to say when the 77-year-old Academy Award winner left the hospital, where he went or what his condition was when he was released. Lancaster’s last reported condition was stable. Ben Benjamin, Lancaster’s publicist, said the actor’s family has requested that no information about his whereabouts be released. Lancaster was in “good spirits” and undergoing therapy, Benjamin said. “He’s a fighter,” he added. Lancaster suffered a stroke Nov. 30 while visiting a friend at the John Douglas French Center for Alzheimer’s Disease in Los Alamitos.