SHORT TAKES : No More ‘Gottas’ for Remick

NEW YORK — Actress Lee Remick says her battle with cancer has changed the way she approaches life.

“I used to be anxious and eager--gotta do everything and be everywhere. No, I say, don’t gotta. Don’t gotta do anything! Except not hurt anybody else,” Remick said in the May issue of Ladies Home Journal.

Remick was in France filming a movie last year when she developed a fever she couldn’t shake. When she came home, doctors confirmed that she had a massive tumor on one kidney and some of her lung cells were affected.

Remick, 54, said treatment at a Bethesda, Md., hospital has rid her body of the cancer--for now.

“I’m told that it is gone,” she said, “but I don’t know that. I’ll always be apprehensive of its return.”