More back issues

Hospital stories about The Price is Right legend Bob Barker are coming fast and furious lately.

Mr. Barker is back in the hospital for the same back issues that cause him trouble last month. As I've said from the start of these problems, it's always hard to tell exactly what's going on. The more lurid media outlets put Bob at death's door. The more respectable sites are noncommittal on just how critical the medical issues are.

I've linked to the story from People, which (a little unbelievably) is one of the more sober sources for celeb news. The site passes along a positive note from Mr. Barker's manager that the game show icon is "doing okay, [and] hopefully he'll get discharged today."

The strangest description of the medical problems came from former TPiR showrunner Roger Dobkowitz last month. He posted about a "crack" in Bob's back. Don't ask me what that means, or how this story will finally develop.