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PEOPLE & ARTSTuesday 16 February 2016

‘Big Ang’ of ‘Mob Wives’ faces
cancer with hope, family

In this image released by The series. dark, is now pale and close-
Dr. Oz Show, Dr. Mehmet Oz, The mother of two and shaven, cut in anticipation
left, holds the hand of Angela grandmother of six has un- of losing it to chemo.
“Big Ang” Raiola during a tap- dergone several surgeries Raiola is the niece of the
ing of “The Dr. Oz Show,” in since she was diagnosed late Salvatore “Sally Dogs”
New York. last year with throat and Lombardi, who was a re-
lung cancer. puted captain of the
Associated Press She said she was twice de- Genovese crime family.
clared cancer-free, only to After gaining celebrity on
LYNN ELBER see it return and spread. “Mob Wives,” Raiola got
AP Television Radiation and chemo- her own spinoff series, “Big
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Real- therapy have failed to Ang” and “Miami Mon-
ity TV star Angela “Big Ang” check it, and her doctors key.”
Raiola says she veers be- are switching to what Oz A cigarette smoker for 40
tween hope and depres- called an advanced ap- years, she said she stopped
sion as she fights stage-four proach aimed at boosting immediately after her
brain and lung cancer. her body’s immune system. first cancer diagnosis last
Angela Raiola, part of the Raiola told Oz she can’t March. Her doctors told
VH1 series “Mob Wives” help feeling depressed at her the disease was “posi-
and its spinoffs, said in a times. tively” caused by smoking,
tearful interview airing “Sometimes I feel I’m gon- she said, and she called for
Tuesday on “The Dr. Oz na be fine, and sometimes people to quit the habit or
Show” that her family is her I just don’t think I am,” said resist picking it up.
support and her reason to Raiola, who lives with her Her sister and brother-in-
keep going. daughter, son-in-law and law are part of her support
“I look at my kids and my their three children on New team, said Raiola, but her
grandchildren and I know York’s Staten Island. husband, Neil Murphy, is
how much they need me,” Her hair, once long and not part of her life.q
Raiola told Dr. Mehmet Oz,
host of the syndicated TV

Some Dominicans don’t want
Vagas Llosa to get literary prize

In this July 22, 2014 file photo, Peru’s Nobel Literature Prize laureate Mario Vargas Llosa attends a
ceremony where he was an Honoris Causa degree by Lisbon Nova University, in Lisbon, Portugal.

Associated Press

SANTO DOMINGO, Domini- an April book fair. The prize in 2013. Others echoed his
can Republic (AP) — Plans has typically been present- criticism.
in the Dominican Republic ed by the country’s culture The Nobel Prize-winning au-
to award a literary prize to minister. thor was a prominent critic
Peruvian author Mario Var- Minister of the Presidency of a ruling that disenfran-
gas Llosa have angered Gustavo Montalvo said chised thousands of peo-
some people, including a late Monday ple born in the Dominican
member of the president’s it would be inappropri- Republic to non-citizens.
Cabinet. ate to honor Vargas Llosa Some effects were later
Dominican and foreign ac- because of statements addressed by legislation.
ademics selected Vargas the author made about a Vargas Llosa could
Llosa to receive the Pedro controversial Dominican not immediately be
Henriquez Urena Prize at court ruling on immigration reached for comment.q