NEW YORK -- Ricki Lake is firing back at physicians groups that have singled her out for bringing attention to at-home childbirth.

NORMAN, Okla. -- Toby Keith's annual fundraiser for families of children with cancer raised $709,000 this year.

Today is Friday, June 20, the 172nd day of 2008. There are 194 days left in the year. Summer arrives at 7:59 p.m. Eastern time.

DEAR MISS MANNERS -- My boyfriend and I need to get legally married now for immigration purposes in order to stay in the same country after I graduate medical school. We cannot afford a wedding right now, and the timing is bad because of an intense medical school schedule.

David Germain

Steve Carell did not necessarily see the Maxwell Smart in himself. Everyone else did, including co-star Anne Hathaway and the studio behind the big-screen "Get Smart," which simply called Carell in and offered him the job, no questions asked.

Cody Clark

In 2005, Ryan Shupe & the RubberBand took a huge step up the music industry ladder by signing a deal with venerable Capitol Records and turning their self-produced album "Hey Hey Hey" into the major national release "Dream Big." TV exposure helped the title track from that album climb into the Top 40 on Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart. Alas, that turned out to be as big as the band could dream, at least in terms of national sales, leading, predictably, to a parting of the ways with Capitol.

TORONTO -- When Jim Broadbent appears later this year as Hogwarts' potion master in "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince," it will round out a career in which it may be said that he's yet to be typecast.

CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DAY: Nicole Kidman, 41; Cyndi Lauper, 55; John Goodman, 56; Lionel Richie, 59