Lynne Koplitz

Lynne Koplitz is an American stand-up comedian and actress. She was host of Telepictures nationally syndicated dating show Change of Heart, guest host on NBC's Later, co-host of the Food Network's How to Boil Water, and co-host of Sony Pictures syndicated talk show Life and Style. Her stand-up has appeared on a number of Comedy Central specials, including Premium Blend. She performed at the Montreal Comedy Festival.

Koplitz earned a BA in theatre arts from Troy University where she was a member of the Iota Kappa Chapter of Chi Omega in 1989. She performed for a regional theater group in Knoxville, Tennessee before moving to New York City. Her father was a chef.

She is working on an HBO comedy special.

Pennsylvania Eastern State Penitentiary

Built in 1829, this hulking pile of stone was Pennsylvania's Eastern State Penitentiary, a cautionary landmark for nearly a century and a half, the place nobody wanted to go.

Willie L. Smith, spent 20 years at Eastern, even building some high-security cells.

Now, people are paying to get in.

Almost 150,000 tourists passed through the forbidding gates of Eastern State last year Ñ into a dark hallway, through a gift shop that has a subterranean feel and down dusty corridors lined by crumbling walls. With audio tour guides at their ears, they go through cellblocks; gaze at the mess halls, hospital and prison chapel; climb into a guard tower; and pace in the exercise yard. They peer into the cells of death row.

Teenagers giggle tentatively; children are subdued; adults exhibit a kind of nervous relief, never happier to be law-abiding citizens. But the paying customers keep coming. And Eastern State is just one of three dozen prisons and jails now collectively drawing millions of visitors each year around the country.

The Osmond Brothers reunite for TV special

The Osmond Brothers - from left, Jay, Jimmy, Merrill and Wayne Osmond - sing their hits for a crowd at the Grand Millennium Celebration on, Dec. 31, 1999, at The Grand Palace in Branson, Mo. (T. Rob Brown | AP )

Las Vegas - The Osmonds will reunite this summer for a TV special celebrating a half-century in the entertainment business.

Seven Osmond siblings - Alan, Wayne, Merrill, Jay, Donny, Marie and Jimmy - are scheduled to be onstage Aug. 13-14 at The Orleans Hotel Showroom, publicist Kevin Sasaki said Thursday from Los Angeles.

Tickets for the live shows range from $75 to $125.

The shows will be taped for "The Osmonds 50th Anniversary," which will air next March on PBS stations.

Sam Leccima of Flip This House Arrested for Fraud

Want further evidence of a downturn in the housing market? Sam Leccima of A&E's popular reality series "Flip This House" has been arrested for fraud. Lecimma is accused of faking the home renovations shown on the cable TV show and claiming to have sold houses he never owned.

"This is, indeed, a con artist," said Sonya McGee, an Atlanta pharmaceutical representative who says Leccima took $4,000 from her in an investment scheme.

McGee and others say Leccima's episodes of "Flip This House," A&E's most popular show, were elaborate hoaxes. His friends and family were presented as potential homebuyers and "sold" signs were slapped in front of unsold houses. They say the home repairs -- the lynchpin of the show -- were actually quick or temporary patch jobs designed to look good on camera.

Katie Flynn family to appear on Oprah show

Oprah Winfrey will lead off her show tomorrow with the death of 7-year-old Katie Flynn on the Meadowbrook Parkway nearly two years ago.

A drunken driver going the wrong way ran head-on into a limousine carrying Katie, a flower girl, killing her and driver Stanley Rabinowitz and seriously injuring the girl's grandparents, Chris and Denise Tangney, as they were returning to Long Beach.

The show, titled "Lifesaving Lessons from Families Like Yours," is scheduled on WABC-TV at 4 p.m. tomorrow. It will feature the Tangneys and Katie's parents, Neil and Jennifer Flynn, all of whom were flown to Chicago to tape their segment in a studio.

On Tuesday the Flynns spoke up in support of a proposed state law that prosecutors say would bolster their chances of putting drunken drivers who seriously hurt or kill people behind bars.

Sarah Cooksey Andrew Speaker and Sarah Cooksey

Andrew Speaker and Sarah Cooksey were engaged in December.

Just weeks later, they learned Speaker had a drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis.

"It was a shock," Cooksey said of hearing the diagnosis. "He went in because he had fallen and was worried that he had bruised a rib. So he went in for a chest X-ray and they discovered this."

Cooksey told Diane Sawyer in an exclusive interview on "Good Morning America" she had no second thoughts about going forward with the wedding.

"Oh, no, I love my husband very much," she said. "And I wouldn't change a thing. I wouldn't trade whatever time I have with him É no, no second thoughts, no."

Joslyn Noel Morse Is Alex Rodriguez Photo Babe

Joslyn Noel Morse has been identified as the A-Rod mystery blonde. According to the New York Post. Alex Rodriguez is having a great year. Alex Rodriguez leads in All-Star balloting that continues through June 28.

This is not one of his finer moments though. Alex Rodriguez, the New York Yankees third baseman, was photographed in Toronto with a blonde babe who isn't his wife. The photos were taken Tuesday night by the New York Post shortly after the Yankees 3-2 loss to the Blue Jays.

Earlier in the week, the Post had claimed that Rodriguez had dined at an upscale Steak House with Joslyn Noel Morse Sunday night before heading to the high-priced Toronto strip-club Brass Rails with her.