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Patrick Swayze has always been a fighter on the big screen. Now he's proving his warrior worth in real life.

Speaking out in detail about his battle with pancreatic cancer, the 56-year-old actor tells Barbara Walters of his daily struggles, including his insistence not to take pain medication while filming his new A&E crime drama, The Beast, premiering next week.

"I've never been one to run from a challenge," Swayze said during the interview, which airs Wednesday and was excerpted today on ABCNews.com. "You can bet that I'm going through hell. And I've only seen the beginning of it."

While again refuting tabloid rumors that he's on his deathbed, the Ghost star admitted the cancer has generated "a lot of fear," particularly after learning it had spread to his liver.

"There's a lot of stuff going on," he added. "Yeah, I'm scared. Yeah, I'm angry. Yeah, I'm [asking], why me? Yeah, I'm all this stuff."

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Amy Winehouse may not have given in to wearing her bathing suit all the time, but she has agreed to pay the fine for her 2007 illegal marijuana possession charge in Norway.

The "Rehab" singer was touring when police caught her, hubby Blake Fielder-Civil and a crew member with a quarter ounce of pot in their hotel room. Each paid a $415 fine to make the charge disappear, but the troubled star later appealed, claiming police coerced her into signing a confession.

The initial March 2008 trial date was postponed and the 25-year-old chanteuse was summoned to appear next Monday. Now that she has withdrawn her appeal and accepted the fine, she will not need to make the trip to Norway.

Unfortunately, agreeing to pay the fine serves as a de facto guilty plea and may make it difficult for Winehouse to perform in the United States. When she paid the fine at the time of the incident, her visa application was delayed and she was unable to appear at the 2008 Grammys, where she received five awards.

Craig Ferguson is Scot-free no more.

After teasing the audience with a closeup of some new ring-finger bling, the Late Late Show host announced Monday night that he waved goodbye to his bachelor ways and quietly tied the knot with longtime art-dealer girlfriend Megan Wallace Cunningham during the holiday break.

"The wedding took place in Vermont, where they have legalized gay civil unions—and I married a woman," Ferguson said.

"But I am European, so I was both the groom and the maid of honor."

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Brian Littrell of the Backstreet Boys is one celeb who has been personally affected by the death of John Travolta and Kelly Preston's son, Jett...and understandably so.

Just before Christmas, Littrell's son, Baylee, 6, was diagnosed with the rare atypical Kawasaki disease, the same heart affliction Jett had as a child. It can be treated, but Kawasaki can have complications, including irreparable heart damage.

"We are so deeply touched for the Travoltas," the boy bander and his wife, Leighanne, said in a statement to OK!. "We thought what we just went through was horrendous enough, so we can't imagine what they are going through."

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Anne Hathaway and Kate Hudson showed up at last night's Bride Wars premiere as each other's dates—the bride wore Oscar de la Renta while the groom sported a double-breasted suit.

Judging by Anne's "Yeah, I know we look ridiculous, thankyouverymuch" face, we're guessing this was not her idea. So we're going to put the blame on boy-crazy Kate, who probably coerced Anne into this using Katy Perry as scientific evidence that this would be awesome.

Unless the his 'n' hers ensembles were just one big coincidence. What's your guess?

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The liberal media elite has run afoul of Ann Coulter yet again. Well, that didn't take long.

The lightning-rod conservative pundit is crying conspiracy—liberal media elite conspiracy, that is—over her last-minute cancellation from this morning's edition of the Today show. She claims her new book's inflammatory, right-leaning rhetoric, and not, as NBC insists, the little matter of devoting more air time to the ever-worsening Middle East conflict, was the reason for her abrupt bump.

"I guess this ends the 'they just want to get ratings' argument about liberal media bias," Coulter grouses on her website.

Coulter was due to appear on the first and fourth hours of Today to promote her new book, Guilty: Liberal 'Victims' and Their Assault on America, and while the Drudge Report yesterday upped the conspiracy ante, breathlessly reporting that Coulter has been permanently banned from the show, NBC News says hooey.

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