LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - R&B singer Chris Brown has tested positive for marijuana, leading a Los Angeles judge on Monday to set a November hearing to decide whether he violated his probation stemming from a 2009 assault on then-girlfriend Rihanna.
According to a probation report presented in court, Brown tested positive in June in Virginia, where he is fulfilling his community service, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Patricia Schnegg said. Brown, who is midway through a five-year probation sentence, produced a medical marijuana card after the positive test, Schnegg said.
Schnegg said mandatory drug testing was not a condition of Brown's probation. But she scheduled a November 1 hearing to decide whether he had violated his probation on that and other matters, including travel restrictions and fulfillment of his community service.
Schnegg gave Brown, 23, a warning in court, reminding him that he was a role model.
'You are not an ordinary person who can sit in your living room and do whatever you want to do,' Schnegg told the 'Turn Up the Music' singer. 'More importantly, a lot of people look up to you, a lot of kids. What you do and what you say impacts a lot of people.'
Brown's lawyer, Mark Geragos, said his client had 'completed all of his community service.'
Brown, who won a Grammy award earlier this year, was sentenced to five years of probation and six months of community service after pleading guilty to criminal assault for beating Rihanna on the eve of the Grammy awards in 2009.
(Reporting By Piya Sinha-Roy, editing by Jill Serjeant and Eric Beech)
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Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Monday, September 24, 2012
Actress Bonnie Franklin diagnosed with pancreatic cancer
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actress Bonnie Franklin, who starred as the harried single mother of two teenage girls on the 1970s and '80s television comedy 'One Day at a Time,' is being treated for pancreatic cancer, her family said in a statement on Monday.
Franklin, 68, a petite redhead, is best known for her role as divorcee Ann Romano on the show, which debuted in December 1975 and ran for nine seasons on CBS. It co-starred Valerie Bertinelli and Mackenzie Phillips as her two head-strong daughters.
The show followed their day-to-day lives as she and the girls made a new start in an Indianapolis apartment, befriended by the building superintendent, Schneider, who becomes virtually part of their family.
Franklin previously earned a Theatre World Award and a Tony nomination for her work in the 1970 Broadway musical 'Applause.' She was nominated for an Emmy in 1982 for her performance on 'One Day at a Time.'
The brief statement from her family, circulated by CBS, said was being treated for pancreatic cancer and was 'continuing her normal schedule during this time.'
'She and her family remain extremely positive and thank everyone for their support and concern,' the statement said, concluding with a request that her privacy be respected.
Franklin earlier this year appeared on the daytime drama 'The Young and the Restless' and last year made a guest appearance on the on TV Land cable channel's sitcom 'Hot in Cleveland,' co-starring Bertinelli.
(Reporting by Steve Gorman; Editing by Bill Trott)
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Franklin, 68, a petite redhead, is best known for her role as divorcee Ann Romano on the show, which debuted in December 1975 and ran for nine seasons on CBS. It co-starred Valerie Bertinelli and Mackenzie Phillips as her two head-strong daughters.
The show followed their day-to-day lives as she and the girls made a new start in an Indianapolis apartment, befriended by the building superintendent, Schneider, who becomes virtually part of their family.
Franklin previously earned a Theatre World Award and a Tony nomination for her work in the 1970 Broadway musical 'Applause.' She was nominated for an Emmy in 1982 for her performance on 'One Day at a Time.'
The brief statement from her family, circulated by CBS, said was being treated for pancreatic cancer and was 'continuing her normal schedule during this time.'
'She and her family remain extremely positive and thank everyone for their support and concern,' the statement said, concluding with a request that her privacy be respected.
Franklin earlier this year appeared on the daytime drama 'The Young and the Restless' and last year made a guest appearance on the on TV Land cable channel's sitcom 'Hot in Cleveland,' co-starring Bertinelli.
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Schwarzenegger memoir includes "failures" over love child
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Arnold Schwarzenegger says his estranged wife has not read his upcoming memoir in which he discusses the secret child he fathered with a family housekeeper.
But in a TV interview with CBS program '60 Minutes,' the action star turned politician said he was determined to write a book that included what he called his 'failures' as well as his successful and multi-faceted career.
Schwarzenegger's book 'Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story,' is to be published on October 1.
Publisher Simon & Schuster has said the former California governor began writing it before the May 2011 scandal over the son he fathered years earlier with his housekeeper while married to Maria Shriver.
The revelations led the couple to start divorce proceedings ending their 25-year marriage, and brought media ridicule for the 'Terminator' star.
In an interview with '60 Minutes,' to be broadcast in full on September 30, journalist Lesley Stahl asked Schwarzenegger, 65, if Shriver knew he was writing about the affair in his book.
'I think that Maria is, you know, wishing me well with everything that I do,' he replied, in an excerpt shown on Monday on breakfast show 'CBS This Morning.'
While admitting that Shriver had not read the memoir, Schwarzenegger continued, 'She knows that it's about my whole life and that I would not write a book and kind of leave out that part and make people feel like, 'Well, wait a minute. Are we just getting a book about his success stories and not talk about his failures?' And that's not the book I wanted to write. I wanted to write about the book about me. Here's my life.'
According to an advance copy obtained by the New York Daily News, Schwarzenegger writes that he and housekeeper Mildred Baena had sex in 1996 in a guest house at the mansion he shared with Shriver while she and their children were away on vacation.
He was finally forced to admit he was the father of Baena's son in a couples counseling session with Shriver the day after he ended his term as California's governor in January 2011.
The Austrian-born former body-builder, who became one of Hollywood's biggest movie stars, is promoting the book on his official website with a video and the tagline, 'This story you know. Are you ready for the story you don't?'
Since ending his term as Republican governor, Schwarzenegger has returned to movies with 'The Expendables 2' in August and has five more films in the pipeline. He has also inaugurated a global policy think tank in his name at the University of Southern California at its Los Angeles campus.
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But in a TV interview with CBS program '60 Minutes,' the action star turned politician said he was determined to write a book that included what he called his 'failures' as well as his successful and multi-faceted career.
Schwarzenegger's book 'Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story,' is to be published on October 1.
Publisher Simon & Schuster has said the former California governor began writing it before the May 2011 scandal over the son he fathered years earlier with his housekeeper while married to Maria Shriver.
The revelations led the couple to start divorce proceedings ending their 25-year marriage, and brought media ridicule for the 'Terminator' star.
In an interview with '60 Minutes,' to be broadcast in full on September 30, journalist Lesley Stahl asked Schwarzenegger, 65, if Shriver knew he was writing about the affair in his book.
'I think that Maria is, you know, wishing me well with everything that I do,' he replied, in an excerpt shown on Monday on breakfast show 'CBS This Morning.'
While admitting that Shriver had not read the memoir, Schwarzenegger continued, 'She knows that it's about my whole life and that I would not write a book and kind of leave out that part and make people feel like, 'Well, wait a minute. Are we just getting a book about his success stories and not talk about his failures?' And that's not the book I wanted to write. I wanted to write about the book about me. Here's my life.'
According to an advance copy obtained by the New York Daily News, Schwarzenegger writes that he and housekeeper Mildred Baena had sex in 1996 in a guest house at the mansion he shared with Shriver while she and their children were away on vacation.
He was finally forced to admit he was the father of Baena's son in a couples counseling session with Shriver the day after he ended his term as California's governor in January 2011.
The Austrian-born former body-builder, who became one of Hollywood's biggest movie stars, is promoting the book on his official website with a video and the tagline, 'This story you know. Are you ready for the story you don't?'
Since ending his term as Republican governor, Schwarzenegger has returned to movies with 'The Expendables 2' in August and has five more films in the pipeline. He has also inaugurated a global policy think tank in his name at the University of Southern California at its Los Angeles campus.
(Reporting By Jill Serjeant; Editing by Steve Orlofsky)
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UK leader Cameron to appear on David Letterman
NEW YORK (Reuters) - David Cameron will sit down with long-running U.S. television host David Letterman, CBS said Monday, marking the first time a sitting British prime minister will visit Letterman's 'Late Show.'
The September 29 broadcast will take place as Cameron visits New York for the UN General Assembly, CBS said in a statement. It did not say what Cameron would discuss. Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair appeared on the show twice, in 2009 and 2010, after he had left office.
Cameron is the latest top politician to appear on a TV chat shows offering lighter programming. Last week it was announced President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama would make their first joint appearance on U.S. daytime talk show 'The View' on September 25.
And Ann Romney, the wife of Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney, will chat with a Letterman rival, late night host Jay Leno, also on September 25.
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The September 29 broadcast will take place as Cameron visits New York for the UN General Assembly, CBS said in a statement. It did not say what Cameron would discuss. Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair appeared on the show twice, in 2009 and 2010, after he had left office.
Cameron is the latest top politician to appear on a TV chat shows offering lighter programming. Last week it was announced President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama would make their first joint appearance on U.S. daytime talk show 'The View' on September 25.
And Ann Romney, the wife of Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney, will chat with a Letterman rival, late night host Jay Leno, also on September 25.
(Reporting By Christine Kearney, editing by Steve Orlofsky)
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Friday, September 21, 2012
Amanda Bynes charged with driving on suspended license
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Former child star Amanda Bynes was charged with two misdemeanor counts of driving on a suspended license on Friday, after the actress was stopped and cited by police last week in Burbank city, police officials said.
According to documents obtained by celebrity website TMZ.com, Bynes was cited twice by the same airport authority police official on September 16 - the second incident an hour and a half after the first - for driving on a suspended license near Burbank's Bob Hope Airport.
Bynes' black BMW was impounded and she is scheduled to appear at Burbank Superior Court by October 16 to address the charges, according to senior assistant city attorney Denny Wei at Burbank City Attorney's office.
Bynes, 26, who had her own TV comedy sketch show on Nickelodeon at the age of 13, is also set to appear in court next week to address two misdemeanor hit-and-run charges, stemming from two separate incidents in April and August.
She was also charged earlier this year with driving under the influence when she hit a police car in April and will attend a pretrial hearing on October 29.
The actress has been involved in a string of minor car accidents and violations in and around Los Angeles in the last six months, and incidents of bizarre behavior.
Paparazzi who have been trailing her every move for weeks reported that she locked herself in the dressing room of a Hollywood clothing store for two hours last week, according to TMZ.com.
Bynes, whose last film was 'Easy A' in 2010, has strenuously denied drinking and driving. 'I am doing amazing,' Bynes told People magazine earlier this week, adding 'I don't drink and drive. It is all false.'
She also told People that she had retired from acting and was moving to New York to launch a fashion line.
Bynes' representatives did not return calls for comment on Friday.
The actress joins a list of young celebrities whose careers and personal lives have derailed after early promise.
'Freaky Friday' actress Lindsay Lohan, 26, is currently trying to make a career comeback after five years of trips to court, rehab and prison stemming from drug and alcohol issues.
Pop singer Britney Spears suffered a highly publicized meltdown in 2007 that resulted in her father being appointed to manage her affairs. Spears, now 30, made a successful comeback in 2009 and made her debut as a judge on TV singing contest 'The X Factor' last week.
(Reporting By Piya Sinha-Roy and Jill Serjeant; Editing by Eric Walsh)
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According to documents obtained by celebrity website TMZ.com, Bynes was cited twice by the same airport authority police official on September 16 - the second incident an hour and a half after the first - for driving on a suspended license near Burbank's Bob Hope Airport.
Bynes' black BMW was impounded and she is scheduled to appear at Burbank Superior Court by October 16 to address the charges, according to senior assistant city attorney Denny Wei at Burbank City Attorney's office.
Bynes, 26, who had her own TV comedy sketch show on Nickelodeon at the age of 13, is also set to appear in court next week to address two misdemeanor hit-and-run charges, stemming from two separate incidents in April and August.
She was also charged earlier this year with driving under the influence when she hit a police car in April and will attend a pretrial hearing on October 29.
The actress has been involved in a string of minor car accidents and violations in and around Los Angeles in the last six months, and incidents of bizarre behavior.
Paparazzi who have been trailing her every move for weeks reported that she locked herself in the dressing room of a Hollywood clothing store for two hours last week, according to TMZ.com.
Bynes, whose last film was 'Easy A' in 2010, has strenuously denied drinking and driving. 'I am doing amazing,' Bynes told People magazine earlier this week, adding 'I don't drink and drive. It is all false.'
She also told People that she had retired from acting and was moving to New York to launch a fashion line.
Bynes' representatives did not return calls for comment on Friday.
The actress joins a list of young celebrities whose careers and personal lives have derailed after early promise.
'Freaky Friday' actress Lindsay Lohan, 26, is currently trying to make a career comeback after five years of trips to court, rehab and prison stemming from drug and alcohol issues.
Pop singer Britney Spears suffered a highly publicized meltdown in 2007 that resulted in her father being appointed to manage her affairs. Spears, now 30, made a successful comeback in 2009 and made her debut as a judge on TV singing contest 'The X Factor' last week.
(Reporting By Piya Sinha-Roy and Jill Serjeant; Editing by Eric Walsh)
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Rushdie says something wrong at heart of Islam
PARIS (Reuters) - British author Salman Rushdie, who lived in hiding for nine years under a death sentence from Iran's supreme leader, said in an interview published on Thursday that something had gone wrong at the heart of Islam.
Rushdie told Le Monde newspaper that his years fleeing the 1989 fatwa from Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini had forced him to pay close attention to a radicalization of the Muslim world.
'Something has gone wrong at the heart of Islam. It is quite recent. I remember when I was young, many cities in the Muslim world were cosmopolitan cities with a lot of culture,' he said in an interview published in French.
'For me, it is a tragedy that this culture has regressed to this point, like a self-inflicted wound. The Islam in which I grew up was open, influenced by Sufism and Hinduism, and not like the one which is spreading rapidly at the moment.'
The fatwa, in response to his 1988 novel 'The Satanic Verses', made Rushdie synonymous with the tussle between freedom of expression and the need to respect religious sensitivities. A memoir of his nine years in hiding following the fatwa was published this week.
The interview was conducted on September 12, just as a film mocking the Prophet Mohammad sparked violent protests across the Islamic world. These included a deadly attack in Libya which killed the U.S. ambassador and three embassy staff.
The California-made film, and a series of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad published by a French satirical weekly on Wednesday, have revived international debate over free speech, religion and the right to offend. Many Muslims consider any representation of Allah or the Prophet Mohammad blasphemous.
'There is a limit beyond which you cannot blame the West any more,' Rushdie told Le Monde. 'Having said that, if there was the slightest sign that Muslim society was able to create an open democracy, I would change my opinion.'
This week an Iranian religious foundation increased its reward for the killing of Rushdie, in response to the film mocking Mohammad.
(Reporting by Daniel Flynn; Editing by Robert Woodward)
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Rushdie told Le Monde newspaper that his years fleeing the 1989 fatwa from Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini had forced him to pay close attention to a radicalization of the Muslim world.
'Something has gone wrong at the heart of Islam. It is quite recent. I remember when I was young, many cities in the Muslim world were cosmopolitan cities with a lot of culture,' he said in an interview published in French.
'For me, it is a tragedy that this culture has regressed to this point, like a self-inflicted wound. The Islam in which I grew up was open, influenced by Sufism and Hinduism, and not like the one which is spreading rapidly at the moment.'
The fatwa, in response to his 1988 novel 'The Satanic Verses', made Rushdie synonymous with the tussle between freedom of expression and the need to respect religious sensitivities. A memoir of his nine years in hiding following the fatwa was published this week.
The interview was conducted on September 12, just as a film mocking the Prophet Mohammad sparked violent protests across the Islamic world. These included a deadly attack in Libya which killed the U.S. ambassador and three embassy staff.
The California-made film, and a series of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad published by a French satirical weekly on Wednesday, have revived international debate over free speech, religion and the right to offend. Many Muslims consider any representation of Allah or the Prophet Mohammad blasphemous.
'There is a limit beyond which you cannot blame the West any more,' Rushdie told Le Monde. 'Having said that, if there was the slightest sign that Muslim society was able to create an open democracy, I would change my opinion.'
This week an Iranian religious foundation increased its reward for the killing of Rushdie, in response to the film mocking Mohammad.
(Reporting by Daniel Flynn; Editing by Robert Woodward)
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Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Swedish, Danish magazines publish Kate topless photos
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - A Swedish celebrity gossip magazine published topless photographs of the wife of Britain's Prince William, the former Kate Middleton, on Wednesday and a Danish sister journal is to follow suit on Thursday.
The pictures were published despite a decision by a French court on Tuesday to ban gossip magazine Closer from further publishing the photographs and ordering it to hand the pictures over to the royal couple.
The injunction granted to the Duke and the Duchess of Cambridge, as the couple are formally known, also prevents Closer from selling the pictures to other media.
But Carina Lofkvist said her magazine, 'Se och Hor' (See and Hear), had bought the pictures on Friday. The magazine published 11 pictures of the royal couple on holiday, of which four show the duchess topless.
'They are very cute pictures of a loving relationship,' Lofkvist told Reuters.
She said the magazine decided to publish the pictures because they were not in any way obscene and it had in the past published similar pictures of celebrities.
The pictures were taken while the couple were on holiday in a chateau in southern France and show the duchess slipping off her bikini top, relaxing on a sun lounger and at one point pulling down the back of her bikini bottoms.
Buckingham Palace has called the photo spread a 'grotesque' invasion of the couple's privacy.
Lofkvist said the couple had to be aware they could be photographed if they showed themselves in a place open to public view, adding the fact these pictures were of a royal couple was also neither here nor there.
The Danish equivalent of her magazine, 'Se og Hor', owned by the same Danish media company, are to publish pictures of the duchess on Thursday.
'It is in the DNA of 'Se og Hor' that we shall entertain and satisfy our readers' curiosity,' editor-in-chief Kim Henningsen said in a statement on the weekly's website.
Neither the Swedish nor Danish magazine are to publish the pictures electronically.
On Monday, the publisher of tabloid The Irish Daily Star suspended its editor after the newspaper broke ranks with Irish and British peers, publishing pages from Closer with the photographs in its Saturday edition.
Italian gossip magazine Chi, also published by Closer's owner Mondadori, printed a 26-page special edition dedicated to the pictures on Monday.
(Reporting by Patrick Lannin; Editing by Sophie Hares)
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The pictures were published despite a decision by a French court on Tuesday to ban gossip magazine Closer from further publishing the photographs and ordering it to hand the pictures over to the royal couple.
The injunction granted to the Duke and the Duchess of Cambridge, as the couple are formally known, also prevents Closer from selling the pictures to other media.
But Carina Lofkvist said her magazine, 'Se och Hor' (See and Hear), had bought the pictures on Friday. The magazine published 11 pictures of the royal couple on holiday, of which four show the duchess topless.
'They are very cute pictures of a loving relationship,' Lofkvist told Reuters.
She said the magazine decided to publish the pictures because they were not in any way obscene and it had in the past published similar pictures of celebrities.
The pictures were taken while the couple were on holiday in a chateau in southern France and show the duchess slipping off her bikini top, relaxing on a sun lounger and at one point pulling down the back of her bikini bottoms.
Buckingham Palace has called the photo spread a 'grotesque' invasion of the couple's privacy.
Lofkvist said the couple had to be aware they could be photographed if they showed themselves in a place open to public view, adding the fact these pictures were of a royal couple was also neither here nor there.
The Danish equivalent of her magazine, 'Se og Hor', owned by the same Danish media company, are to publish pictures of the duchess on Thursday.
'It is in the DNA of 'Se og Hor' that we shall entertain and satisfy our readers' curiosity,' editor-in-chief Kim Henningsen said in a statement on the weekly's website.
Neither the Swedish nor Danish magazine are to publish the pictures electronically.
On Monday, the publisher of tabloid The Irish Daily Star suspended its editor after the newspaper broke ranks with Irish and British peers, publishing pages from Closer with the photographs in its Saturday edition.
Italian gossip magazine Chi, also published by Closer's owner Mondadori, printed a 26-page special edition dedicated to the pictures on Monday.
(Reporting by Patrick Lannin; Editing by Sophie Hares)
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