What's folk singer Joni Mitchell up to? Any shows? I heard she was ill. Did she move to Colorado?
Chris Garthwaite, Pleasant Hill, CA

Mitchell, who turned 50 this month, and producer husband Larry Klein are working on an album. There's talk of a spring release and, yes, a tour. They live in L.A. where they've been all 11 years of their marriage. Mitchell has been battling with cigarettes (at four packs a day, they're as much a part of her image as they once were Bette Davis'), which led to unsubstantiated rumors of throat cancer after she backed out of a show in Spain. So, has she quit smoking? She goes back and forth, her publicist says.