Report: Kylie Minogue's boyfriend says cancer may postpone baby
Report: Kylie Minogue's boyfriend says cancer may postpone baby plans[ MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) -
Minogue, Martinez to postpone baby plans
MELBOURNE: Australian pop diva Kylie Minogue and her French boyfriend Olivier Martinez (shown in 2003) have had to postpone plans to have a baby because of the singer's surprise bout with cancer, according to media reports.
The London-based former soap opera star is recovering from breast cancer surgery in her hometown of Melbourne, after shocking fans last week by announcing she had been diagnosed with the illness and had to call off a tour of Australia and Asia. Martinez, an actor, was quoted as saying the couple had been planning to have a child.
"We were going to start working on it after the tour was over," Martinez was quoted as saying in New Idea magazine. "Now it will be put off; not forever -- we pray and hope -- but for the time being."
No details of Minogue's follow-up treatment have been released, but there is speculation her fertility may be affected if she has to undergo chemotherapy.
Another magazine, Woman's Day, reported that Martinez has defied demands from Hollywood executives to leave Minogue's side and fly to the Cannes Film Festival before returning to Los Angeles to work on the movie The Snow Goose.
Sydney's The Daily Telegraph newspaper printed a photograph Monday of the 36-year-old singer wearing dark glasses and holding Martinez's hand as she left a Melbourne hospital. A surgeon said Sunday she had successfully removed a cancerous lump from Minogue's breast on Friday.
Minogue was in Melbourne to perform her Showgirl tour when the disease was diagnosed last week. The Australian and Asian legs of her tour have been postponed indefinitely. --AP
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;AP; ANPA ..r.. US-People-Warren Beatty Actor Warren Beatty says he would make better governor than Arnold JP/20/GUESS
Beatty says he'd be better than Arnie
BERKELEY, California: Warren Beatty says he isn't ruling out running for governor of California, and thinks he could do a better job than Arnold Schwarzenegger.
"I don't think anyone should ever rule public service out," Beatty said. "It's a way of saying, 'Take me out of the mix and don't listen to me any more."'
The actor made the remark after giving a commencement address to graduates of University of California Berkeley's Goldman School of Public Policy. Beatty, who has been involved in politics for years, played a senator in the 1998 movie Bulworth and entertained the idea of running for the presidency six years ago.
Beatty, 68, said he has "a real soft spot for actors even if they are right wing," and has always liked Schwarzenegger. But the former action star is a politician who should "rise to the higher level of that calling," Beatty said, and not denigrate fellow politicians by mocking them as "girlie men," as the governor did of Democratic lawmakers last summer.
"Can't we accept that devotion to the building of the body politic is more complex and a little more sensitive than devotion to body building?" Beatty asked.
Schwarzenegger deputy press secretary Vince Sollitto said of the criticism: "I'm sure it's nothing personal. Warren's just mad at Republicans because he's afraid they're cutting off his Social Security." -- AP
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