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— Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor was in critical condition Friday after undergoing hip replacement surgery earlier in the weekin Southern California, her husband said. Gabor, 93, had injuries to the right side of her body, including a broken hip, after she fell out of bed last weekend at her Bel-Air home, said Prince Frederic von Anhalt, Gabor’s husband. Gabor initially appeared to be recovering after the hip surgery Monday at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, her publicist John Blanchette said. Blanchette said von Anhalt told him Friday that “doctors were working very hard to stabilize her.” “Right now she’s not communicative,” Blanchette said. “Only time will tell.” He said doctors had taken Gabor off morphine and were putting her on another painkiller with the hope that would help the situation. Blanchette said earlier Friday that the actress might have suffered a stroke during surgery, but von Anhalt said doctorshave not confirmed there was a stroke. Von Anhalt said his wife was conscious. “She looks at us but doesn’t know what is going on,” he said.

Seth Rogen is a superhero who wields a blowtorch and has a Chrysler equipped with hoodmounted machine guns in The Green Hornet. The film doesn’t open until January, but Rogen showed a brief clip Friday to about 6,000 fans at Comic-Con. The writer-actor said it was important to debut the footage at San Diego’s annual pop culture convention because “the people who are in this room are probably the biggest movie and comic-book fans on the planet.” The clip showed Rogen as Britt Reid, who becomes the Green Hornet, out for an adventure with his sidekick Kato, a masterful fighter and mechanic played by Jay Chou. It also offered viewers a look at the Black Beauty, their 1965 Chrysler Imperial armed with guns, rockets and other secret weapons.

Front Section, Pages 2 on 07/25/2010

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