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'Survivor' winner Wesson shares her wealth

NEW YORK -- Tina Wesson won the big prize on the second "Survivor," but she didn't keep it all to herself.

Wesson, who reaped $1 million on CBS' "Survivor: The Australian Outback," reportedly helped runner-up Colby Donaldson pay off a debt and bought him a Harley-Davidson motorcycle.

The 40-year-old ex-nurse from Knoxville, Tennessee, has treated herself to a few comforts, too, including a 4,500-square foot house with five bathrooms for her family of four. She's also spending much of her time making public appearances.

"Now is just a permanent vacation," she tells Us Magazine. "I used to get so excited when it was Friday. Now I don't know what day it is, and I am like, 'This is what it's going to be like for the next year.' It's wild."

Tony-winner takes up knitting

NEW YORK -- For Mary-Louise Parker, dragging and puffing has given way to knit one, purl two.

The Tony Award-winning actress has abandoned cigarettes and gotten serious about knitting.

"It's soothing," the 37-year-old actress tells Rosie magazine. "And it gives me something to do because I don't smoke anymore, thank God. You can't do both at once. I can't anyway."

Parker, who won best actress for "Proof," says she took up the craft while studying at the North Carolina School of the Arts.

Kid won't knock Uma from Tarantino film

LOS ANGELES, California -- The "show must go on" doesn't work for Quentin Tarantino and Uma Thurman.

The "Pulp Fiction" director has decided to hold off on shooting his next film until the actress has her baby, Variety reports.

Tarantino wrote the script for "Kill Bill," which he describes as a revenge movie in which a woman tracks down the men who wronged her, with Thurman in mind. And even though it will delay production, he thinks it's best to hold off until she can return.

"I'm going to wait for Uma," he says. "She is my actress."

She's due in January, and filming is set to start in the spring.

Beatles autographs net $24,000

MELBOURNE, Australia -- If only Ringo had signed it.

A piece of paper signed by John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison in 1965 sold for $24,000 at an auction Monday, the Associated Press reported.

An anonymous collector acquired the pizza-stained paper, which the three Beatles bandmates signed at a hotel in Adelaide during an Australian tour. Laryngitis kept drummer Ringo Starr off the tour.

It's unclear if a thumb print on the paper belonged to any of the Fab Three.

"I understand they were having a pizza in their hotel room in Adelaide when giving the autograph," auctioneer John Roper said Tuesday. "There is a thumb print there, but I don't know whether it's the pizza man's or John Lennon's."