Doris Day snubs Oprah

David Kaufman, author of new book "Doris Day: The Untold Story of the Girl Next Door," tells USA Weekend that "Pillow Talk" star Doris Day lives as a virtual recluse, although she keeps in touch with friends by telephone. Day, 86, even turned down lunch with Oprah Winfrey. Kaufman said Winfrey tried to uncancel the lunch by driving up to Day's house, but even then, "Doris wouldn't see her."

Snipes petitions court

Lawyers for Wesley Snipes, 45, are asking a Florida judge to let the actor leave the country while they appeal his three federal tax convictions. Snipes wants to work on two films, "Gallowwalker" and "Chasing the Dragon," in London and in Bangkok, Thailand, according to documents filed Wednesday in federal court in Florida. He was sentenced in April to three years in prison on three misdemeanor counts of willful failure to file his income-tax returns.

Colbert injury a mystery

Stephen Colbert has found a new cause célèbre: fighting the glamorization of "face violence." As he did after breaking his wrist last year, Colbert has transformed a real-life injury into a mock crusade. Colbert was injured Saturday, and while he's been cagey about the cause, he's made no attempt to hide the scarring between his eyebrows and the blackened eyes this week on "The Colbert Report." In extreme close-up Monday, he detailed the wreckage: "What the hell is going on right here? ... I've got stitches up there and it looks like I'm growing a little map of Norway down the side of my face." Colbert, his publicist and Comedy Central have declined to say how the injury happened.

Funny thing in FBI files

Former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover kept a thick dossier on Art Buchwald, calling the late Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist a "sick, alleged humorist." CBSNews.com obtained the 239-page file the agency began in 1956, when Buchwald attended an air show in the Soviet Union, and continued until 1975, three years after Hoover's death. Hoover was especially peeved by a 1964 piece in which Buchwald said Hoover was a fictional character named after a vacuum cleaner.

Rumor patrol

No Prada for pope

The devil may wear Prada, but the pope does not. According to the Vatican newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, the bright red loafers Pope Benedict XVI wears are not designed by the Milanese fashion house, as has long been rumored. "Obviously the attribution was false," the newspaper said Thursday.

Passages

Charles "Chuck" Dryden, 87, a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel who was one of the first of the pioneering black World War II pilots known as the Tuskegee Airmen, died Tuesday in Atlanta.

Daihachi Oguchi, 84, a master Japanese drummer who led the spread of the art of "taiko" drumming to the United States and throughout Japan, died today after being hit by a car.

Today in History

1844: Mormon leader Joseph Smith and his brother, Hyrum, were killed by a mob in Carthage, Ill.

1957: More than 500 people were killed when Hurricane Audrey slammed coastal Louisiana and Texas.

1969: Police raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York's Greenwich Village; patrons fought back in clashes considered the birth of the gay-rights movement.

Today's Birthdays

Country Singer Lorrie Morgan, 49. Writer-producer-director J.J. Abrams, 42. Actor Tobey Maguire, 33. Actor Drake Bell, 22.

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