AMAGANSETT, N.Y. (AP) – Actor Robert Downey Jr., the Oscar-nominated star of “Chaplin” whose struggles with drug addiction drew attention in the late 1990s, has married producer Susan Levin.
Downey, 40, and Levin, 31, married at a private home in the Hamptons on Saturday, People magazine and the TV news magazine Entertainment Tonight reported.
The two met in 2002 on the set of the film “Gothika,” which Levin co-produced. They were engaged in 2003.
The marriage is Downey’s second. He and actress Deborah Falconer have an 11-year-old son, Indio.
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TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) – David Smith Sr., who already holds a world record for the longest distance traveled by a human fired from a cannon, now has another feat on his record.
Smith was shot across the U.S.-Mexico border on Saturday, soaring about 150 feet and landing uninjured in a net in San Diego with U.S. Border Patrol agents and an ambulance waiting nearby.
Although it is against the law for anyone, including U.S. citizens, to enter the country outside an official port of entry, Smith Sr. wasn’t crossing illegally.
U.S. Border Patrol Chief David Aguilar made an exception for him, said Border Patrol spokesman Kurstan Rosberg. And Smith flashed his U.S. passport as he climbed into the barrel.
Smith, of Half Way, Mo., is listed in Guinness World Records for record distance for a human fired from a cannon. He flew 185 feet, 10 inches on May 29, 1998, in West Mifflin, Penn.
The Smith family has five cannonballs: father, son, two daughters and a cousin.
Saturday’s feat was the brainchild of Venezuelan artist Javier Tellez and is part of a series of public art projects in the two border cities.
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Was Grammy-winning R&B smoothie Usher dumped from the coming Motown musical movie “Dreamgirls” in favor of self-styled “Prince of R&B” Omarion? So says Radar magazine, blaming Usher Raymond’s contract demands.
With Beyonce Knowles, Jamie Foxx and Eddie Murphy already attached to the DreamWorks project, producers chose Omari Grandberry, as he was known when he sang with B2K.
Omarion recently had roles in “Fat Albert” and “You Got Served.” Usher’s credits include “Texas Rangers” and the coming “Dying for Dolly” with Chazz Palminteri.
Usher’s publicist Simone Smalls said her client never signed on to do the movie, based on the Broadway hit that’s in turn based loosely on the lives of the Supremes.
Publicists for Omarion and DreamWorks did not return calls for comment.
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