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Randy Travis performs at 2013 CMA Music festival at the LP Field in Nashville, Tenn. Travis has been hospitalized in Dallas for viral cardiomyopathy. ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO
Randy Travis in critical condition with heart problem By Robert Wilonsky
The Dallas Morning News
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andy Travis has been admitted to a Dallas hospital in critical condition, according to his Nashville, Tenn.-based publicity firm. Says a release from Webster & Associates Public Relations & Marketing: “The Grammy winner is suffering from complications of recently acquired viral cardiomyopathy. Travis was admitted into the medical facility yesterday.” According to Johns Hopkins, “Cardiomyopathy is the term for any disease of the heart muscle that interferes with the heart’s ability to pump blood with sufficient force.” And it’s rare and slowmoving, except when caused by a viral infection. When reached by phone, representatives for the PR firm say they are not releasing any further information at this time. The Tioga, Texas-living Travis, of course, has had his share of legal troubles in recent years — most notably a February 2012 public intoxication arrest outside a Sanger church; that Aug. 7, 2012, incident in Grayson County, Texas, during which a naked, unarmed Travis threatened to shoot and kill state troopers, which was followed weeks later by a fight in a Plano, Texas, church parking lot with
his fiancee’s estranged husband. But just four days before Christmas, his Dallas-based attorney Larry Friedman told The Dallas Morning News that Travis is “committed to a new fitness regimen that includes a strict three-hour workout every day and a new highprotein diet.” Messages have also been left for Friedman. Pete Schulte, who represented Travis in the Plano case, said via email that “I am saddened to hear of my former client’s serious illness and wish him a speedy recovery. Just like many Americans, I am a big fan of his music. To my knowledge, he was doing very well prior to this illness. My thoughts and prayers are with him and his family.” But long before he made TMZ headlines, Travis was — and remains — among the most beloved and revered country singers, one of the last of the so-called neotraditionalists who took the keys from George Jones and handed them to Garth Brooks. Among his myriad awards: six Grammys (his first in ’88 for “Always & Forever”), nine American Music Awards and countless other country-music honors. According to his website, he has a number of shows scheduled between now and October, including the Craven Country Jamboree in Saskatchewan, Canada, this Saturday, where he was due to perform with the Dixie Chicks.
Pittsburgh bridge renamed for historian The Associated Press
PITTSBURGH — A Pittsburgh bridge has been renamed for Pulitzer Prizewinning historian David McCullough on his 80th birthday. County officials gathered Sunday to rename the 16th Street Bridge in McCullough’s honor. A Pittsburgh native and two-time Pulitzer prize winner, McCullough said no honor has touched him like the decision to rename the bridge after him. McCullough, who wrote a
Newsmakers Mariah Carey in hospital with a shoulder injury
Mariah Carey
NEW YORK — Mariah Carey is in the hospital. The pop star’s representative says the singer went to the hospital in New York late Sunday after injuring her shoulder while filming a music video. Her rep adds Monday that “doctors reset her shoulder” and that she is fine. The singer will still perform Saturday with the New York Philharmonic on Central Park’s Great Lawn for the 2013 MLB All-Star Charity Concert.
Celine Dion helps to launch Canadian artist Celine Dion
Veronic DiCaire
LAS VEGAS, Nev. — Celine Dion holds court in the Caesars Palace Colosseum, and the five-time Grammy winner could quite easily sit on her laurels. But the 45-year-old is co-producing the show of a fellow French Canadian songstress setting up shop across the street at Bally’s. Veronic DiCaire previously opened for Dion during a 2008 tour stop in Montreal. DiCaire has a devoted Frenchspeaking following after living in France, but her Vegas show is her breakout into the Anglophone world. The Associated Press
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7 p.m. on ABC Extreme Weight Loss Chris takes a different approach with Jami, who at 28 years old and 292 pounds is an emotional wreck. Instead of measuring her progress in pounds lost, he wants her to focus on her accomplishments on the road to fitness.
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7 p.m. on CBS NCIS Gibbs (Mark Harmon) and his colleagues are on a mission to take down the world’s most wanted cyberterrorist. To accomplish that, they need to find a certain hacker who may hold the key to tracking down their quarry in “Canary.”
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7 p.m. on A&E Storage Wars New York A new season opens with back-to-back episodes starting with “The Walking Bid,” which finds the buyers in Trenton, N.J. Chris and Tad score a supply of fireworks, but it’s more bust than boom. Joe P. tests his hearing aids. A largerthan-life newcomer joins the buyers.
book about the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge, said he’s had many honors. “But no pat on the back David McCullough has ever touched me to the heart.” McCullough joins Roberto Clemente, Andy Warhol and Rachel Carson among those who have Pittsburgh bridges named for them.
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7:30 p.m. on NBC Betty White’s Off Their Rockers It’s a Mary Tyler Moore Show reunion in the season finale, as Ed Asner, pictured with Betty, guest stars as an overeager suitor Betty meets online and as a prize she wins in a charity auction. The pranks of the week involve an elderly woman who asks a stranger to photograph her nude and a pair of seniors who offer a jogger a martini. 9 p.m. on ABC Body of Proof After an inmate stages a violent escape from a prison transport van, a witness in his murder trial is found dead. Then the convict shows up to tell Megan (Dana Delany) that he’s innocent and pleads with her to help him clear his name in “Breakout.” Richard Burgi, Kenneth Mitchell and Alan Dale guest star.
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3:00 p.m. KASA Steve Harvey An inspirational single mother gets a big gift; rejection therapy puts a guest on the right path. KOAT The Ellen DeGeneres Show Actress Kaley Cuoco; TV host Padma Lakshmi. KRQE Dr. Phil CNN The Situation Room FNC The Five 4:00 p.m. KOAT The Dr. Oz Show KASY The Steve Wilkos Show Guests are obsessed with the idea that their partners are cheating. FNC Special Report With Bret Baier 5:00 p.m. FNC The FOX Report With Shepard Smith 6:00 p.m. CNN Anderson Cooper 360 FNC The O’Reilly Factor 7:00 p.m. CNN Piers Morgan Live FNC Hannity
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David Letterman Actor Adam Sandler; Joseph Arthur performs. 11:00 p.m. KNME Charlie Rose KOAT Jimmy Kimmel Live Kevin Bacon; Diane Kruger; The Bacon Brothers perform. 11:37 p.m. KRQE The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson Actor Morgan Freeman; comic Cathy Ladman. 12:00 a.m. KASA Dish Nation FNC The Five 12:02 a.m. KOAT Nightline 12:06 a.m. KOB Late Night With Jimmy Fallon David Spade; Kris Jenner; Mudhoney performs; Preservation Hall Jazz Band performs with The Roots. 1:00 a.m. CNN Piers Morgan Live FNC Red Eye 1:06 a.m. KOB Last Call With Carson Daly