Rosie O'Donnell, 50, recovering after heart attack

From the Miami Herald People page:

Rosie O’Donnell had a heart attack last week but is OK, her rep says.

The comedian, 50, credits her survival to a Web search of her symptoms. O’Donnell said she started feeling nauseated, clammy and achy after helping a larger woman in a parking lot.

A stent was inserted after doctors found her coronary artery was 99 percent blocked.

Kinsey Sicks performs 8 p.m. Saturday in Broward (with video 'The Official GOP Economic Platform')

From The Kinsey Sicks, the "Dragapella" singing group that performs 8 p.m. Saturday at Broward Center for the Performing Arts in Fort Lauderdale:

At the request of the Romney-Ryan campaign, The Kinsey Sicks today graciously released a new music video detailing the Republican party's economic platform. Watch the following video and share with all your patriotic, job-creating friends.

Comedy icon Phyllis Diller dies in her sleep at 95

BY SANDY COHEN, ASSOCIATED PRESS

LOS ANGELES -- Phyllis Diller, the housewife turned humorist who aimed some of her sharpest barbs at herself, punctuating her jokes with her trademark cackle, died Monday morning in Los Angeles at age 95.

"She died peacefully in her sleep with a smile on her face," her longtime manager, Milton Suchin, told The Associated Press.

Diller suffered a near-fatal heart attack in 1999. The cause of her death has not been released.

She was a staple of nightclubs and television from the 1950s - when female comics were rare indeed - until her retirement in 2002. Diller built her stand-up act around the persona of the corner-cutting housewife ("I bury a lot of my ironing in the back yard") with bizarre looks, a wardrobe to match (by "Omar of Omaha") and a husband named "Fang."

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Play about gay man staged in conservative Uganda (with video promo for 'The River and the Mountain')

BY RODNEY MUHUMUZA, ASSOCIATED PRESS

KAMPALA, Uganda -- A play that revolves around the turbulent life of a gay man in Uganda is being staged in the East African nation, where three years ago a parliamentarian wrote a bill seeking the death penalty for homosexuals.

This is the first time a play exploring homosexuality is being performed in Uganda, and the British playwright and producers say they hope their work can help "normalize the gay character" in this conservative country.

The play, titled "The River and the Mountain," premiered last Friday at a little-known theater in the capital, Kampala, amid fears the police would raid the venue and stop production. Government officials had objected to the play and blocked it from being staged at Uganda's national theater.

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Endurance swimmer Diana Nyad moves from Cuba toward Florida (with CBS News video)

ASSOCIATED PRESS

HAVANA -- Open-water swimmer Diana Nyad pushed through dark waters early Monday as she tried to complete a record 103-mile (166-kilometer), unassisted swim without the aid of a shark cage.

Her team had been trying to find a path through a storm that was nearly stationary over the 62-year-old Los Angeles woman. But they said Nyad was safe and feeling strong as she swims.

Her team was hoping she could capitalize on a great day of swimming Sunday.

"Today was an awesome day," Mark Sollinger, her operations chief, said in blog posting Sunday night.

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