GRAZ, Austria (AP) – A museum displaying training equipment once used by Arnold Schwarzenegger was due to close because of financial problems, officials said.

The collection of Schwarzenegger memorabilia, which opened in 1997 when the former bodybuilder-actor turned 50, also includes photos and paintings.

It is tucked into a corner of a fitness center in the Arnold Schwarzenegger Stadium in Graz, a southern Austrian city near the California governor’s home village of Thal.

The fitness center and museum were to close Wednesday.

An administrator at the center blamed financial problems. The official said a letter had been sent to Schwarzenegger asking for financial help, but the letter wasn’t answered.

Susanne Hoeller, an official at the Graz tourism office, said that although the privately run museum didn’t attract large crowds, it was a “pity” for the city to lose its only Schwarzenegger site.

Hoeller said the collection will be stored and might one day be displayed again.

Schwarzenegger was born in 1947 in Thal just outside Graz, where he began his bodybuilding career. He emigrated to the United States in 1968 and became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1984, but has retained his Austrian citizenship.

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LOS ANGELES (AP) – A scholarship in memory of Fred Rogers, who produced and hosted the acclaimed PBS children’s program “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood,” was given to its inaugural recipient, a University of California film student.

Michelle Lyn Banta, a graduate student at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, received $10,000 to support her study in children’s media and further “the values and principles of Rogers’ work,” the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences said.

Banta’s selection was announced Tuesday at a ceremony attended by Rogers’ widow, Joanne Rogers.

Rogers died of cancer in 2003 at age 74.

“The announcement of this scholarship fund in Fred’s memory was a thrill,” she said in a statement, calling Banta a deserving candidate whose selection honored Rogers.

Banta also will have the opportunity to work with a mentor from the academy’s children’s programming group during the school year.

The TV academy established the Fred Rogers Memorial Scholarship with funding from Ernst & Young LLP.

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On the Net:

http://www.fci.org/mister-rogers-neighborhood/

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HONG KONG (AP) – China has honored Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan and Chow Yun-Fat in a commemorative stamp collection marking 100 years of Chinese film.

Among the other 128 honored stars were Andy Lau, Tony Leung, Maggie Cheung, Brigitte Lin, Cecilia Cheung, Anita Mui and Leslie Cheung.

The stamps bear production shots of the stars and come with brief biographies. The Chinese postal service launched the collection at a ceremony in Beijing Monday.

Chow said he was pleased by his selection. “It’s been a long time since I had a Chinese-language movie shown in the mainland, but everyone still remembers me,” the 50-year-old actor said.

His screen credits include “The Replacement Killers” and “Bulletproof Monk.” He’s slated to appear in Ann Hui’s upcoming Chinese film “The Aunt’s Postmodern Life.”

The stamps also salute famous Chinese films including “Fists of Fury,” “Hero,” “Farewell My Concubine” and “Infernal Affairs.”