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Hospitalized: TV game show producer and former talk show host Merv Griffin, 82, has been hospitalized at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center for a recurrence of prostate cancer, a spokeswoman said.
Book deal: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the California Democrat who this year became the first woman to hold the top spot in the House of Representatives, is writing a memoir, to be released in 2008 by the Doubleday Broadway Publishing Group.
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