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NEW YORK (AP) – Boy George, the former Culture Club singer, got a scolding from a judge for not complying with the terms of his sentence on a drug charge.

“I’m not going to give you another chance,” Criminal Court Judge Anthony Ferrara warned Monday. The singer, whose real name is George O’Dowd, didn’t do the community service required by a plea deal.

O’Dowd pleaded guilty in March to third-degree false reporting of an incident. The charge followed his false report of a burglary at his Lower Manhattan apartment where police said they found cocaine.

Under his plea deal, O’Dowd was to enter a drug program in England and do five days of community service in Manhattan. He was also ordered to pay a fine of about $1,000 and to avoid arrest for the next six months.

But O’Dowd didn’t do the community service, and earlier this month, Ferrara demanded the 45-year-old singer show up in court or face arrest.

“You have to do the community service,” Ferrara told O’Dowd on Monday. “It’s up to you whether you make it an exercise in humiliation or in humility.”

“If you don’t do the community service, I’ll make you a promise: You’re going through that door,” Ferrara said, pointing toward the entrance to the jail cells.

The judge gave O’Dowd until Aug. 28 to complete the community service.

O’Dowd left the courtroom and immediately went to the probation offices to get his assignment. “I never minded doing the community service,” he said as he walked down the hall to the office.

His lawyer, Louis Freeman, said O’Dowd always intended to comply with all the terms of his conditional discharge, but had proposed working with an HIV/AIDS charity while he was in an outpatient drug-treatment program.

The judge rejected that proposal.

“He’ll probably be raking leaves in Central Park, or something like that,” Freeman said of O’Dowd, who was referred to the Sanitation Department for possible assignment.

When O’Dowd left the community service assignment office, he quipped, “I’m going to be teaching basketball in Harlem.”

GLENDALE, Calif. (AP) -“Wyatt Earp” star Hugh O’Brian, 81, has married for the first time in what the couple described as “a wedding to die for.” The weekend ceremony was held at Forest Lawn Memorial Park.

“This is my first, and most definitely, my last trip down the aisle,” O’Brian said in a statement announcing his marriage Sunday afternoon to his girlfriend of 18 years, teacher Virginia Barber, 54.

It was the bride’s second marriage.

Some 300 guests – including look-alikes of John Wayne and Pope John Paul – witnessed the ceremony at the cemetery’s Hall of Crucifixion-Resurrection, publicist Monique Moss said Monday.

The Rev. Robert Schuller, pastor of the Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove, officiated, and the couple was serenaded by close friend Debbie Reynolds. Dubbed “A Wedding to Die For,” the ceremony concluded with a cocktail reception.

O’Brian may be best known to baby boomers as television’s tough Old West marshal on “The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp,” which aired from 1955 to 1961.

Besides cleaning up the Tombstone Territory on TV, O’Brian appeared on dozens of shows over the years including “The Love Boat,” “Murder, She Wrote,” “Fantasy Island,” “L.A. Law,” “Charlie’s Angels,” “Police Story,” “Perry Mason” and “General Electric Theater.”

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) – Grammy-winning hitmaker Dallas Austin, who has crafted songs for TLC, Madonna and Michael Jackson – and whose life story was loosely depicted in the Nick Cannon movie “Drumline” – is facing trial on drug charges, his lawyer and police said Monday.

The 34-year-old producer and songwriter, who produced 2002’s “Drumline” and the recent film “ATL,” was arrested at Dubai’s airport May 19, Austin’s lawyer, Qays Hatem al-Zu’bi, told The Associated Press in Dubai.

Police did not release details of his arrest, which emerged after a hearing last week at the Dubai Court of First Instance. Austin is due to appear for another hearing on July 2, al-Zu’bi said.

Al-Zu’bi said the producer is charged with possessing illegal drugs for personal use.

The lawyer said Austin had come to Dubai to attend music concerts.

In the past, people convicted of drug possession in the Emirates have been sentenced to several years in prison.

Austin, who is based in Atlanta, has several hits to his credit, including Pink’s “Just Like a Pill” and TLC’s “Unpretty.” He won a Grammy Award for best R&B album in 1999 for producing TLC’s multiplatinum “Fanmail.”



WEST DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – Superman’s parents say Brandon Routh is still the kind and earnest son they raised in Norwalk. That may be true, but things are changing for the star of “Superman Returns.”

Back in Iowa for a special premiere of his new movie, Routh was greeted by dozens of fans as he walked the red carpet outside Jordan Creek Town Center in West Des Moines on Sunday. It was quite a change from the relative anonymity of growing up in a sleepy town like Norwalk.

“Having people at the airport, wanting autographs or taking photos of me getting out of a car – it’s definitely different,” the 26-year-old actor said.

The hoopla was also a far cry from another recent trip to Iowa, when Routh crashed on his buddy’s floor in Iowa City during the University of Iowa’s homecoming weekend in November.

The screening was delayed more than 40 minutes as Routh worked the crowd outside the theater, posing for pictures, signing autographs and talking to members of the media.

Still, his mother, Katie Routh, said she hasn’t seen much difference in her son. “He’s the same,” she said. “I haven’t seen any change whatsoever.”

Routh has also learned that fame doesn’t necessarily mean fortune – at least not yet. Asked what his first big purchase was after landing the role, the newest Superman replied: “You don’t make so much on the first one. So no big purchases yet.

“We’ll get there though.”

“Superman Returns,” also starring Kate Bosworth and Kevin Spacey, opens in theaters Wednesday.

NEW YORK (AP) – The Upper West Side brownstone where Humphrey Bogart grew up has long ago been turned into public housing. But the block, like Paris, will always be his.

Scores of fans stood in the drizzle this weekend as the city unveiled a plaque renaming the short stretch in front of 245 W. 103rd St. as Humphrey Bogart Place.

“Bogie would have never believed it,” said Lauren Bacall, who was married to the Oscar-winning actor from 1945 until his death in 1957. She said the day was an emotional one, and her time with Bogart too short.

“I’m happy he is honored,” she said. “Of course, it’s only brass on a wall.”

Born in 1899 to well-to-do parents, a surgeon and an illustrator, Bogart lived at the home until 1923. He went on to make dozens of films, including the classics “The Maltese Falcon,” “Casablanca” and “The African Queen.”

The campaign to recognize the actor’s connection to the neighborhood was waged by a movie buff and fellow kid from the block, Gary Dennis.

A video store owner, Dennis never knew Bogart, but learned they had grown up on the same street while reading the actor’s biography when he was 10. The connection continued to fascinate him decades later.

“Of all the blocks, of all the streets, in all the neighborhoods in all the boroughs of this city, he had to grow up on mine,” Dennis said at Saturday’s ceremony, riffing on a Bogart line from 1942’s “Casablanca.”

Over the past year, Dennis collected more than 1,000 signatures on a petition and solicited the aid of city officials and the Housing Authority.

LOS ANGELES (AP) – A Charlie Chaplin hat-and-cane set has sold for nearly $140,000 at auction, according to a spokeswoman for Bonhams & Butterfields.

The $139,250 bid broke a record for the most ever paid for a Chaplin hat-and-cane set, of which there are several, said Bonhams spokeswoman Janelle Grigsby.

She would not say who purchased the items at Sunday’s auction.

The bowler hat is stamped with manufacturer’s details inside the hatband; the cane is 32 inches long and made of bamboo, according to a statement from the auction house.

Also sold at the auction: the two-headed llama from the 1967 film “Doctor Dolittle,” starring Rex Harrison ($4,780); a book inscribed by John Lennon ($9,560); a Walt Disney celluloid from “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” ($8,365); and a saxophone played by former President Clinton ($7,768).

LONDON (AP) – Bob the Builder, J.K. Rowling and 2,000 children took tea with Queen Elizabeth II to celebrate the monarch’s 80th birthday.

The grounds of Buckingham Palace were transformed for the day into a series of settings from children’s classics, including Winnie the Pooh’s Hundred Acre Wood, Mr. McGregor’s Garden from “Peter Rabbit” and Thomas the Tank Engine’s railway.

Models were dressed as favorite literary characters – including Paddington Bear, Postman Pat and supernanny Mary Poppins.

“The day’s been really special, I’ve got to see J.K. Rowling and the queen and I’ve taken loads of photos,” said Karlie Williams, 12, from Ebbw Vale, Wales.

Guests were being treated to picnic food prepared by “Naked Chef” Jamie Oliver and a comic show performed by stars including actress Julie Walters and model Sophie Dahl – granddaughter of much-loved children’s author Roald Dahl.

“All of the show was brilliant,” said Alice Bradford, 12, from Manchester. “I was really surprised when the Queen went on stage at the end. There were so many celebrities.”

The children, ages 4 to 14, won tickets to Sunday’s party in a lottery.

The queen turned 80 on April 21, although her official birthday, celebrated with the annual Trooping of the Color parade, is marked on June 17.

SONOMA, Calif. (AP) – Jeff Gordon is ready to get married again.

The four-time NASCAR champion plans to marry Belgian model-actress Ingrid Vandebosch. The two started dating in 2004 and appeared together in the movie “Taxi,” in which Vandebosch played a bank robber and Gordon made an uncredited cameo appearance at her invitation.

They began dating about a year after Gordon’s much-publicized and expensive divorce from Brooke, his wife of seven years.

Gordon said the couple had been engaged about a month, but did not officially announce it until Saturday. Then he won Sunday’s Dodge/Save Mart 350 Nextel Cup race at Infineon Raceway.

“It’s just been a special week all the way around,” he said.

Vandebosch, who began her modeling career at the age of 12, according to an online biography, has also dated Bruce Willis and former Baltimore Oriole Brady Anderson. Gordon will be 35 in August.

No date has been set for the wedding.



NEW YORK (AP) – Brad Pitt was named one of “15 People Who Make America Great” by Newsweek magazine for using his megawatt star power to shine some light on some often neglected causes in Africa.

Pitt, a constant target of the paparazzi, told the magazine he figured if the cameras were going to follow him and girlfriend Angelina Jolie everywhere, they might as well lure them somewhere that needed the world’s attention.

“It’s the first time I’ve actually felt like we have some degree of control over it,” the 42-year-old actor told Newsweek for an issue on newsstands Monday. “I can’t describe what an immense relief it is for me.”

Pitt and Jolie also sold the first picture of their daughter Shiloh to People magazine for a reported $4 million, saying all proceeds would be donated to charity.

“Knowing that someone was going to hound us for that first photo – and was going to profit immensely for doing it – I just couldn’t live with it,” Pitt said. “We were able to turn that around and collect millions for people who are really going to need it.”

DENVER (AP) – Tom Green can’t get enough.

Less than two weeks after ManiaTV.com started streaming the 34-year-old comedian’s live call-in show from his Hollywood Hills, Calif., living room, Green is turning the weekly show into a nearly nightly deal.

Denver-based ManiaTV will broadcast four original shows a week, with a fifth night of either a repeat or an original episode. More footage could air on Green’s Web site.

ManiaTV and Green originally agreed to a year of hourlong weekly episodes, but Green asked for more time after the first episode aired June 15. He was live an extra two hours that night. Green has been calling at odd hours ever since, asking to go live soon after each call, ManiaTV spokesman Jason Damata said.

Green broadcast for 81/2 hours the first week.

“So he’s, like, hijacking our network, which we’re cool with,” Damata said. “But we said, “Do us a favor. Can we at least have some structure?”‘

ManiaTV expects 5 million viewers for its site for July.

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