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Actress cruises on with post-divorce life

Nicole Kidman has moved on since her divorce to fellow Hollywood star Tom Cruise, and she hopes others will follow suit.

"Everyone keeps asking me all the time, 'How are you? How are you?' I mean divorce is divorce, and it's a really tough thing to go through," Kidman said in a television interview aired Saturday on the British Broadcasting Corp. "You have to pick yourself up and move forward, and that is what I am doing."

Did the divorce sour her on the institution of marriage? "Oh no, I'd love to get married again," she said.

Breast cancer concerns prompt California hike

"Jurassic Park" actress Tea Leoni hopes to increase breast cancer awareness with her participation in the sixth annual Take-A-Hike.

"She really is very committed at this. Her grandmother had breast cancer," said Take-A-Hike spokeswoman Brenda Himelfarb. "This is the fourth year that Tea has been involved."

The event, which benefits several breast cancer research organizations, involved taking participants for hikes in the Santa Monica Mountains.

Leoni, original "Shaft" star Richard Roundtree and exercise guru Kathy Smith were among the celebrities who led participants on the trails Saturday.

Academy welcomes 200 new inductees

Music producer Quincy Jones, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and more than 200 other luminaries of politics, arts, science and the humanities were inducted Saturday into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Jones thanked the academy for his membership and called a "new spirit of unity throughout the world" heartening.

In remarks, he said academy members are uniquely positioned to build understanding.

"We have an opportunity to speak to a wide public, here and abroad, about the value of employing our creative faculties � our intellects, our expressiveness � to overcome the hatred and suspicions that have proved so deadly and dangerous," Jones said during Saturday's ceremony at Harvard Law School.

Among this year's other inductees are Czech Republic President Vaclav Havel, photographer Richard Avedon and lyricist Stephen Sondheim.