August
14 Suzanne and Tom Report

"She calls it 'comedy chemo,'" Tom Poston says as he describes his wife Suzanne Pleshette's current cancer treatment. Meanwhile. Poston said he is "getting better every day and I'm trying to get more active" as he is under treatment for a white cell problem. While Tom was resting at home, Suzanne, he said, was "out shopping -- at the framers." They had recently moved into a new, high-rise condominium. Tom said Suzanne "hasn't smoked in years" and had undergone two sessions of chemo therapy last week after the cancer was discovered during an examination for what she thought was a heart problem. "Her heart is as sound as a dollar," Tom reported, adding she will have two more sessions of chemotherapy in two weeks. "She's doing absolutely great and they say it (the cancer) is in the best possible place -- easy to get at -- if it (surgery) is needed after the next two treatments."

Estelle (Mrs. Carl) Reiner is home from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and now recouping after breaking three ribs in a fall at home last Friday. Recovery will take eight weeks, Carl sadly reports. He is working in "Ocean's 13" at WB, having filmed on location in Las Vegas last week. 

Barbra Streisand and Jim Brolin caught "World Trade Center" Sunday night at Mann's Agoura Hills Theater. She starts rehearsals next week for her concert tour, which bows Oct. 4 in Philadelphia.

It was curtains for "Curtains" at the Ahmanson Theater last week when theater lights started flashing and horns started honking. The production was stopped- - until the electrical problem was solved and the show went on. With the world in an alert state, the temporary power problem had more than its usual effect. After the final curtain, at the "Neighborhood Night" gathering a member of the audience stood and announced, "I want to thank you (the cast) for the two-and-a-half hours you took us away from CNN. That's why we're here." Ah, there's no biz like showbiz. When the show ends its L.A. run Sept. 10, it will move to N.Y., where it is still awaiting a theater.

"Curtains" star David Hyde Pierce says he's devote his time to doing benefits for Alzheimer associations around the country, On Oct. 7, L.A. will have its annual Memory Walks Alzheimer benefit at Hollywood Park race track where stars and fans will trot around the park together.