QUICK TAKES - March 7, 2009
Branching out: Actor James Franco, seen in such films as “Milk,” “Spider-Man” and “Pineapple Express,” has sold a collection of short stories to Scribner, which plans to publish them next spring under the title “Palo Alto.”
On the mend: A spokeswoman for Peter Tork, a former member of the 1960s pop group the Monkees, said he was doing well after undergoing surgery in New York this week for a rare form of head and neck cancer.
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