A 20-second clip of Anne Frank has become a huge hit on YouTube, drawing 1.6 million viewers in the first five days it was posted, Gabe Hartwig reported at STLtoday.com/ViralVideos, which has posted the clip. Shot on July 22, 1941, almost a year before the Frank family went into hiding, the film shows Frank, 12, leaning out of her window. The Anne Frank Museum said it is the only time she was captured on film.

 

KMOV cut off the end of "CSI: Miami" on Monday, Gail Pennington reported at STLtoday.com/TubeTalk. KMOV planned to air the missing segment from 1:07 am-1:15 am on Wednesday. You can vent about it with Gail on her weekly chat Thursday at 1 p.m. at TubeTalk.

 

The tribute to Michael Jackson starring St. Louis band Boogie Chyld to be held at the Missouri History Museum on Tuesday night was called off because of the weather, Kevin C. Johnson reported at STLtoday.com/Blender.

 

Liz Taylor, 77, Twittered: "Dear Friends, I would like to let you know before it gets in the papers that I am going into the hospital to have a procedure on my heart. It’s very new and involves repairing my leaky valve using a clip device, without open heart surgery, so that my heart will function better. Any prayers you happen to have lying around I would dearly appreciate. I’ll let you know when it’s all over. Love you, Elizabeth."

 

Actress Penelope Cruz and actor Javier Bardem are engaged. In August, she said, "I don’t know if I believe in marriage."

 

Foundation Grounds, 7298 Manchester Avenue in Maplewood, is making cookies and cupcakes made out of the Missouri banana, Joe Bonwich reported at STLtoday.com/OffTheMenu. "I didn’t pick up much of the banana similarity — it seemed to me more like a mango or papaya," he said.

  

Compiled by Ted Rodgers