TUBE TALK For the first time in its two-decade history, CNN is the No. 2 cable news network. During the month of January, it was beaten by upstart rival Fox News Channel in both average daily viewers (656,000 to 596,000, according to Nielsen) and average prime-time viewers (1.09 million to 921,000). It's unclear if this trend will continue, given the volatility of current news events and the continuing game of musical chairs among the two channels' on-air personalities (like the Paula Zahn-Greta Van Susteren swap). ''I don't think the race is over,'' says FNC chief Roger Ailes.
BABY TALK Light up a cigar for Cuban-born Andy Garcia, who became a father for the fourth time on Monday. Wife Marivi Lorida gave birth in Los Angeles to a 7-pound, 13-ounce boy named Andres Antonio Garcia-Lorida. He's named after his father (full name: Andres Arturo Garcia-Menendez) and joins three sisters: Dominik, 17; Daniella, 13; and Alessandra, 9. The 45-year-old ''Ocean's 11'' star and Marivi, whom he met when they were students at Florida International University, will celebrate their 20th wedding anniversary this year.
HEALTH WATCH Queen of the blues Koko Taylor was listed in fair condition at a Chicago hospital two days after fainting at the Windy City nightclub she owns. Doctors at Northwestern Memorial Hospital found a blocked artery and performed a successful angioplasty yesterday. Taylor, 66, suffers from diabetes, hypertension, and diverticulitis. Her blood pressure and blood sugar level had gone up after she failed to take her diabetes medicine, a spokesman said. She is expected to be released by the end of the week....
Broadway legend Carol Channing was hospitalized yesterday with a virus after getting sick backstage before her scheduled guest appearance on ''The View.'' The ''Hello, Dolly'' star, who is a day shy of her 81st birthday, never made it onto the air but was taken to New York's Lenox Hill Hospital. She is expected to be released in a couple days, her publicist says.
Next month's movie ''John Q,'' in which Denzel Washington plays a father who goes to extremes to get a heart transplant for his little boy, hit awfully close to home for director Nick Cassevetes. ''My daughter, when she was a week old, was diagnosed with heart disease, and over the past 13 years, she's had four major heart surgeries,'' he tells the New York Daily News. Now 14, daughter Sasha still isn't out of the woods. ''Without a heart transplant very soon, she only has a couple of years' life expectancy.''
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