Bo Derek is promising to show off her tough side when she plays a tough fashion boss in her new TV soap "Secret Passions" - by fighting with her son's girlfriend. The star will play bitchy Maria Zianni on the new show, which will debut later this year, and she insists her catfights with her co-star will make Joan Collins and Linda Evans' Dynasty squabbles look tame.

Actor John Corbett owes his new music career to late country great Buck Owens because the Grand Ole Opry favorite gave him the encouragement to press on with his Nashville, Tennessee, dream.

Happy Birthday to singer Dierks Bentley (1975), Beastie Boy Michael Diamond a.k.a. "Mike D" (1965), actress Cathy Moriarty (1960), actress Sean Young (1959), actress Bo Derek (1956), solo artist and Eagle Joe Walsh (1947), guitarist Duane Allman of the Allman Brothers Band (1946), TV daredevil Super Dave Osborne (1942), comedian Dick Smothers (1939), game show host Richard Dawson (1932), U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy (1925; d. 1968), and astronomer Edwin Hubble (1889).