Entertainment news outlets were abuzz yesterday afternoon with reports that Morgan Freeman is getting a divorce.

Freeman's friend and business partner, Bill Luckett, said the Oscar winner and his wife of more than 20 years, Myrna Colley-Lee, "are involved in a divorce action," "Access Hollywood" reports.

"For legal and practical purposes, [Freeman and Colley-Lee] have been separated since December of 2007," Luckett adds.

News of the separation comes just days after Freeman was involved in a serious car accident that sent him into surgery. The woman who was injured along with Freeman is a friend of the actor who had offered him a ride home, a crash witness says.

Freeman, 71, was driving a 1997 Nissan Maxima that authorities said belongs to Demaris Meyer, 48, of Memphis, Tenn., when the car veered off a rural road Sunday night a few miles from Freeman's home in the Mississippi Delta. The car flipped at least twice.

Bill Rogers, a retired police officer who was the first person to arrive at the scene, said a dazed Freeman told him that he and Meyer were headed to his home in Charleston, a small town some 90 miles south of Memphis.

"He said that they were friends and she had offered him a ride home and she didn't really know the way and so he was going to drive the vehicle," Rogers said, recalling a conversation he had with the actor.

Luckett had told the Commercial Appeal newspaper that Meyer is the actor's friend.

Rogers said he talked to Freeman and Meyer in an attempt to keep them conscious -- something he was trained to do as a police officer.

Hospital spokeswoman Kathy Stringer said yesterday that Freeman was still listed in serious condition. The actor had surgery Monday to reconnect nerves and repair damage to his left arm and hand. His publicist, Donna Lee, added that Freeman will make a full recovery.

Calls to Meyer's home yesterday were not answered. Her condition was not immediately available. Rogers said Meyer did not appear to be injured as severely as Freeman.

PRESLEY TWINS

Lisa Marie Presley is expecting twins, her spokeswoman, Cindy Guagenti, said yesterday.

The babies are expected to arrive in the fall.

Presley -- daughter of Elvis Presley and actress Priscilla Presley -- announced her pregnancy on her MySpace page in March, saying she was forced to go public with the news after photos of her looking heavier were ridiculed in the media.

The 40-year-old singer has two children from her marriage to musician Danny Keough, which ended in 1994. She was briefly married to Michael Jackson and Nicolas Cage.

Presley married music producer Michael Lockwood in January 2006.

"It's her time to celebrate with her husband," Priscilla Presley said in an interview with "Entertainment Tonight." "My daughter is a very family girl. She loves children, and I know that she and Michael have been hoping for this for a long time."

Twins run in the family "on Elvis' side and on my side, too." Priscilla Presley said. "I have twin brothers, and then, of course, Elvis had a twin brother [who died at birth]." (Associated Press)

SHOW GOES ON

A rental truck containing Iggy Pop and the Stooges' equipment has been recovered empty after being stolen in Montreal.

Stooges road manager Eric Fischer says the 15-foot truck stolen Monday contained all the group's instruments and stage gear. He tells the Detroit Free Press the items are worth tens of thousands of dollars.

Police say the truck was found empty Tuesday several blocks from the hotel where it was stolen.

The Stooges are in the middle of a tour and used rented and donated equipment for a Wednesday gig in Toronto. (AP)

BARD THEATER FOUND?

The theater where "The Merchant of Venice" and "Romeo and Juliet" likely debuted and where William Shakespeare himself may have trodden the boards has likely been discovered in east London, archaeologists at the Museum of London said yesterday.

The possible foundations of what is known as simply The Theatre were unearthed by builders excavating the site -- a vacant garage -- for another structure. Museum archaeologists were called to the location to make sure nothing was destroyed and had a eureka moment.

"We were there, scratching our heads, looking into the trenches, thinking, 'This could be it,' " said Jo Lyon, a senior archaeologist at the museum. "So we did some more research, and then we found the angled walls. And we all went, 'Oh my gosh, this should be it.' "

Other theaters of similar vintage also have angled walls, so the discovery was significant. Archaeologists had known for a long time there was a high probability for The Theatre to be on this particular site. But there are no maps that show its location, no images to show what it might have looked like, and only a vague description of it.

"It's in the right place, it's at the right angle to be a polygonal shape," Lyon said. "It's a pretty high possibility."

The possible discovery of The Theatre, built in 1576 and where Shakespeare's troupe performed in the 1590s, could complete the set of open-air theaters where the Bard's plays were staged. The Rose theater's location was discovered in 1989 in Bankside, just south of the River Thames in central London, and the Globe theater is nearby. A replica of the Globe was built on a site close to the original and opened in 1997.

Martin Wiggins, a fellow at the Shakespeare Institute at the University of Birmingham, said an understanding of what the theater looked like could help Shakespearean scholars understand more about this period in the playwright's history.

Fittingly, a new theater is being built on the site, ensuring the foundations below are protected. (AP)

BARKER OFF THE HOOK

A judge has dismissed allegations against Bob Barker in a wrongful termination lawsuit filed by a "Price Is Right" employee, saying the game-show's longtime host was not her boss.

Deborah Curling, a former production assistant, sued Barker, CBS and production company FremantleMedia North America in October, claiming she faced retaliation after testifying against Barker in another wrongful termination lawsuit.

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Malcolm H. Mackey tentatively dismissed several claims against Barker, saying he could not be sued for wrongful termination because he was not her employer. Curling's attorney, Nick Alden, can amend the complaint to try to prove that Barker inflicted emotional distress, but Mackey dismissed that allegation for now.

Mackey also dismissed several claims lodged by Curling against FremantleMedia but will allow Alden another chance to argue they should be included.

Attorneys for CBS and FremantleMedia declined to comment after the hearing.

Curling's suit claimed she was in a "pleasant working environment" during most of the 24 years at "The Price Is Right." She claimed she was demoted after testifying against Barker in a wrongful termination suit filed by one of the show's former production assistants.

She had been seeking unspecified damages.

Neither Curling nor Barker was in court Thursday.

Barker retired last year after hosting "The Price Is Right" for 35 years. (AP)