*Tennis champion Martina Navratilova has regained her Czech nationality after saying she was “ashamed” of President Bush. Britain’s Guardian newspaper reports that Navratilova confirmed last month that she has again become a citizen of the country of her birth, 33 years after she fled then-communist Czechoslovakia. She will, however, retain her U.S. nationality.
*Janet Jackson has dropped out of this weekend’s “Saturday Night Live” performance because she has the flu, the singer’s representative said Tuesday. “SNL” has yet to announce a replacement musical act.
* Patrick Dempsey made a special appearance at the Central Maine Medical Center to announce a new cancer center. Scheduled to open March 31, the Patrick Dempsey Center for Cancer Hope & Healing was inspired by his mother, Amanda Dempsey, who is now cancer-free, reports Maine’s Kennebec Journal.
* Singer India.Arie has been cast in the Whoopie Goldberg-produced Broadway play, “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf,” a revival of the Tony-nominated play about seven women of color from the African diaspora.
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Personals was compiled by Kester Alleyne-Morris from Tribune news services and staff reports.
