Entertainment

Until now, the cast and crew of the Dallas-filmed Fox show Prison Break have escaped the Writers Guild of America strike because there were already several scripts in the hopper when the writers hit the picket line.

But the last pages of the last script are being filmed now. At the end of this week, Prison Break production will shut down, the stars will go home and the crew will look for other work.

That's makes their recent generosity to Children's Medical Center all the more touching.

Renee Brown, wife of Prison Break producer Garry Brown , is a cancer survivor. For the second year, she organized a toy drive for kids being treated for cancer at Children's Medical Center.

That explains how T-Bag, one of the baddest villains on broadcast television, ended up handing out gifts on Monday at Children's Medical.

Actor Robert Knepper plays Theodore "T-Bag" Bagwell on Prison Break. On Monday, he joined Prison Break intern Melissa Brown, daughter of Renee and Garry, for a trip to the hospital, where they handed out toys from the cast and crew to the young cancer patients.

"Everybody on the show was very generous," says Renee. "There were five bicycles. Someone gave $500 for DVDs to be shown in the infusion room while kids are getting treatment."

Renee adds that there will probably be another Prison Break toy drop this month, and she's already tapped show star Amaury Nolasco to make the deliveries.

The Secret Service is usually prepared for anything. But one wonders if they were prepared for the commander in chief to be ducking beach balls. Last weekend, President and Mrs. Bush were in the presidential box during the Kennedy Center Honors.

When Beach Boy Brian Wilson was saluted, beach balls were released from the ceiling and guests batted them around and into the presidential box.

"I actually brought one home," says Dallas businesswoman Lyda Hill, co-owner of Fort Worth's Stockyards Station.

In addition to Lyda and the first couple, there were a few other well-known Texans sprinkled throughout the Kennedy Center during the joint tribute to Mr. Wilson, Steve Martin, Diana Ross, Martin Scorsese and Leon Fleisher.

The president's prep school and Yale friend Clay Johnson, former COO of the Dallas Museum of Art and now deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget, was there with his wife, Ann. Dallas oilman Edwin L. Cox attended with Dallasite Kerbey Clark. And Dallas oilman Bill Moss was on hand with his wife, Dianne .

For more than 20 years, David Moon, the Korean-born owner of Dallas women's accessories retailer Sam Moon Trading Co., has given financial aid to local students out of his own pocket.

This week, he made the process more formal by setting aside $1 million for the Sam Moon Scholarship Foundation to aid Korean-American students in Dallas and Fort Worth.

"I have not seen other Koreans doing this sort of thing," says Dr. Jonathan Kim, chairman of the scholarship committee of the new foundation. "I hope others will be inspired by this action."

David Moon began his business in 1984 with a retail store on Harry Hines Boulevard. Today, he and his two sons, Samuel and Daniel, run a much larger Sam Moon empire that includes several retail stores and extensive real estate holdings.