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Former Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien, 73, underwent successful quadruple-bypass heart surgery in Montreal on Wednesday, his office said in a statement.

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He'll survive this, too

Former "Survivor" contestant Jonny Fairplay filed a police report Wednesday, alleging that Danny Bonaduce threw him and knocked out his teeth during an awards show. Fairplay was treated at a Hollywood, Calif., hospital and released early Wednesday, police said. The report said the reality-show contestant was at the Fox Reality Channel's Really Awards when Bonaduce walked onto the stage without invitation and made a "derogatory statement." Fairplay, 33, came in third on the 2003 CBS show "Survivor: Pearl Islands" but was condemned by viewers for concocting a lie that his grandmother was dead to win sympathy.

Still leading Brad around

People can't get enough of Jennifer Aniston. Neither can Us Weekly, Star or other popular celebrity magazines. Aniston, 38, sits atop Forbes.com's first analysis of top-selling famous faces, based on several factors, including newsstand sales of celebrity weeklies People, Us Weekly, In Touch Weekly, Life & Style, OK! and Star over six months ending June 30, as supplied by the Audit Bureau of Circulations. The actress was on six covers, collectively selling more than 5 million copies, the Web site said Tuesday. Aniston's ex-husband, Brad Pitt, takes second place, followed by Scarlett Johansson, Angelina Jolie, Reese Witherspoon, Katie Holmes, Carrie Underwood, Jennifer Hudson, Valerie Bertinelli and Kelly Ripa.

Smith book spurs suit

Howard K. Stern, the lawyer and former companion of Anna Nicole Smith, has filed a $60 million lawsuit against the author and publisher of a book about the late actress for what he says are libelous claims. The lawsuit says former MSNBC and Fox News personality Rita Cosby's book, "Blond Ambition: The Untold Story Behind Anna Nicole Smith's Death," details false claims including that Stern had a sexual encounter with Smith's former boyfriend Larry Birkhead and exploited her February death. The lawsuit was filed Tuesday in Manhattan federal court.

Oops!

Civics? No, it's anatomy

Ohio state Rep. Matthew Barrett surprised a Norwalk High School class when the computer he was using projected a photo of a nude woman during a lecture on how a bill becomes a law. Barrett, a Democrat, was giving a civics lesson Tuesday when he inserted a data-memory stick into the school computer and the image of a topless woman appeared. Police seized the stick and the computer. Barrett said the memory stick was a gift about three weeks ago from a legislative liaison from the state Library of Ohio.


Passages

Harry Shuler Dent, 77, a Republican political operative who helped Sen. Strom Thurmond slow school desegregation in the South, who devised the Southern strategy that elected Richard Nixon president and who later became a lay minister, died Friday at his home in Columbia, S.C. He had Alzheimer's disease.

Today in History

1777: George Washington's troops launched an assault on the British at Germantown, Pa., resulting in heavy American casualties.

1965 : Pope Paul VI became the first pope to visit the Western Hemisphere as he addressed the U.N. General Assembly.

1970: Rock singer Janis Joplin, 27, was found dead in her Hollywood hotel room.

Today's Birthdays

Actor Charlton Heston, 84; author Anne Rice, 66; actress Susan Sarandon, 61; music producer Russell Simmons, 50; actor Liev Schreiber, 40.