* Country music legend Loretta Lynn, 76, was hospitalized over the weekend with the early stages of pneumonia, according to her rep.
She hopes to be back touring in November.
* The dress that Marilyn Monroe wore in 1954's Otto Preminger-directed "River of No Return" was sold by Julien's Auctions to a private buyer for $504,000, putting it far behind the $4.6 million fetched at auction this summer by Marilyn's white dress in "The Seven Year Itch."
(Better dress, better movie.)
The auction was held in China, so the dress was probably purchased with good old American interest payments.