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Well-toned thespian Mark Wahlberg was hospitalized Friday morning after suffering from smoke inhalation on the Boston set of his latest flick, “The Fighter,” Radaronline.com reports. 

Wahlberg was working Thursday night on a scene for the movie, which also stars Christian Bale and Amy Adams, and “a smoke machine was being used for atmosphere and apparently he breathed in too much  smoke,” a well-placed source told the Web site. By Friday morning, the Boston native was gasping for air like nobody’s bidness and was rushed to Massachusetts General Hospital where he was treated.

We refuse to use the term “Fighter” to explain Wahlberg’s relatively quick release from the hospital Friday afternoon in an “all is well” kind of way. No doubt this unfortunate mishap has the potential to morph into a very special episode of “Entourage.”

I'm not Billy Joel, I swear!!

Oft-trouble singer George Michael just keeps getting into some mess or another, who can forget his arrest for soliciting in a men’s restroom? Well, now the former heartthrob has Wham!med his Range Rover into the back of a truck whilst driving in England and, yes, alcohol is believed to be a part of this particular mix. ”He came over to my cab and asked if I had stopped to give him a lift,” the incredulous trucker told London’s Sun newspaper. “He was absolutely not with it, so I told him no. But he insisted and tried to get in.

Another oft-trouble singer/musician, Billy Joel, who’s known for his frawesome songs, his many lost loves and, since the millennium, his frequent car accidents, was purported to have been across the pond in the States at the time of the accident.

According to a report at MSNBC, Patrick Swayze learned he had pancreatic cancer five weeks ago and began a four week treatment cycle of chemotherapy. "He noticed that he had lost some weight and was looking a little jaundiced so he decided to go and get himself checked out," Galina Espinoza, senior editor at People said.

To cut off the blood supply to the tumor Patrick is taking the experimental drug, Vatalanib. He’s also indulging in a high fat diet to keep his weight up. (Unfortunately, I’m on the same diet.)

Patick’s brother Don hails him as an unflappable warrior and lashed out again reports that Patrick only has five weeks to live.

"He didn’t deserve that," Don said.

"There have been a lot of rumors swirling that Swayze had lost all of his hair, that he had gotten really gaunt. None of this, says his brother Don, is true," Espinoza said.

"He’s incredibly optimistic. He’s fighting this with everything that he’s got and through it all he has his wife, Lisa, by his side."

Rock on, Patrick.