*Elisabeth Hasselbeck, a co-host of ABC’s “The View,” will go on maternity leave next month, a show spokesman said Saturday. Hasselbeck, 30, will leave the popular New York-based daytime talk show beginning Nov. 8 or Nov. 9, spokesman Karl Nilsson confirmed. Various celebrity guests will fill in for her while she is on leave, he said. Hasselbeck and her husband, quarterback Tim Hasselbeck, have a 2-year-old daughter named Grace.
*David Simon, creator of gritty Baltimore dramas “The Wire,” “Homicide: Life on the Street” and “The Corner,” is taking on the Big Easy. The next series he hopes to produce for HBO is about musicians reconstituting their lives in New Orleans, he told The New Yorker for its issue on newsstands Monday. “This show will be a way of making a visual argument that cities matter,” Simon said. “‘The Wire’ has never done that.”
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Personals was compiled by Alan Leo from Tribune news services and staff reports.
