CANBERRA, Australia (AP) – Australian rock star-turned-lawmaker Peter Garrett said he expects to return to Parliament Tuesday following a weekend health scare.

Garrett, former lead singer for the band Midnight Oil, collapsed Saturday as he waded from the surf at a beach in his southern Sydney electoral district. He spent 10 hours in a hospital undergoing tests that failed to explain his fainting spell.

The 51-year-old, known for his passionate environmentalism, rested at his family’s country home when Parliament resumed Monday for the year’s final two-week session.

Garrett issued a statement saying he intended to return to work Tuesday, and to have more tests in the next few days.

“After losing all my energy and fainting after swimming at Maroubra Beach on Saturday morning, I spent most of the day recovering and having checks conducted at the Prince of Wales Hospital,” he said in a statement on his Web site. “There is no indication from checks so far of any serious health problem.”

Garrett was elected in October as a lawmaker for the opposition Labor Party.

Dan, Jim bring the blues

CLEVELAND (AP) – Jim Belushi and Dan Aykroyd arrived on Harley motorcycles and also hammed it up with a performance of “Sweet Home Chicago” at the opening of the newest House of Blues in a renovated storefront.

More than 2,000 people turned out for Sunday night’s gala opening. Belushi and Aykroyd arrived wearing black leather coats and escorted Mayor Jane Campbell into the concert and restaurant complex.

They also performed as the Blues Brothers, wearing black suits, white shirts, black ties and black fedoras, for the evening’s finale, opening their set with “Sweet Home Chicago.”

The club has a 1,200-seat performance hall, a 300-seat restaurant and six bars.

Aykroyd is a board member of the House of Blues, which also operates clubs in seven other cities. Belushi’s brother, John, was a co-founder of the Blues Brothers.

Kudrow sees ‘Comeback’

With the big name-recognition boost she got from “Friends,” Lisa Kudrow certainly doesn’t need to revive her career, but that’s what the character she plays in her next sitcom project will be trying to do.

Kudrow will star in and executive-produce “The Comeback,” which has received a 14-episode order from HBO.

Kudrow – who will play a former sitcom star trying for, well, a comeback – also cowrote the pilot episode. A premiere date was not announced.

Cojocaru needs a kidney

TV personality Steven Cojocaru has polycystic kidney disease and hopes to have a transplant operation in early winter.

Cojocaru, who comments with mordant humor on what celebrities wear, said on NBC’s “Today,” where he appears regularly, that he still has some kidney function but needs a transplant as soon as possible to counteract the effects of his ailment, a hereditary disease that affects about 600,000 Americans.

“What I’ve learned is you can’t ask someone to give you a kidney. You sit back and hope your loved ones are going to come forward. And I’m completely floored by the people who have come forward. Not only my close family and friends,” said Cojocaru, who is also a correspondent for the syndicated “Entertainment Tonight” and “The Insider” television shows.