Roger Moore comes to aid of queen at ceremony

Roger Moore comes to aidof queen at ceremony
LONDON -- It didn't require much 007 derring-do, but former James Bond actor Roger Moore came to Queen Elizabeth II's rescue Friday, helping out when technical trouble prevented the monarch from unveiling a plaque.
The queen pressed a button that was supposed to open a set of red curtains in front of a Heathrow airport plaque honoring a charity fund-raising program, but nothing happened.
Moore got up from his seat and crouched down to tug at the drapes, which opened on the second try.
"I wasn't meant to be up there but James Bond has got to do something," Moore said later.
The 76-year-old actor and the queen attended a ceremony commemorating the 10th anniversary of a UNICEF-British Airways program that raises money by asking airline passengers to donate coins and bills of any currency.
Ex-rock manager getsjail time for fraud
LONDON -- The former manager of the band Tears for Fears was sentenced to 31/2 years in jail Friday for defrauding investors in a purported cure for drunkenness made from volcanic rock.
Paul King, 52, was convicted of fraud at London's Southwark Crown Court. Prosecutors said he took $823,000 from business partners in Soba International Ltd., a firm set up to market the remedy in Britain.
King told partners he would use his music-industry contacts to help raise money to market the product. Instead, he set up a shadow company with the same name and siphoned off money to start other businesses and maintain a luxury lifestyle.
In addition to the jail sentence, he was banned from being a company director for 10 years.
Sutherland attends wedding in tartan kilt
EDINBURGH, Scotland -- Kiefer Sutherland, in a tartan kilt and knee socks, attended the wedding of his former stepdaughter in the Scottish capital.
Sutherland, whose latest role in the TV series "24" has made him a familiar face in Britain, chatted to fans before the ceremony Thursday in Edinburgh's City Chambers.
Michelle Kath, the 27-year-old daughter of Sutherland's first wife, Camelia, married actor Adam Sinclair, also 27.
Sutherland and the bridegroom walked to the ceremony from the hotel where Sinclair was staying, accompanied by about 10 other male friends and relatives wearing kilts in a variety of tartans.
Notable death
Gilbert Lani Kauhi, a member of the original cast of the "Hawaii Five-0" television series, died Monday of complications from diabetes, said his mother, Emma. He was 66. Kauhi, nicknamed Zulu, was a popular Waikiki beach boy when he joined the CBS police drama for its first season. He was cast as Detective Kono Kalakaua, the burly Hawaiian sidekick to the show's star, Jack Lord. He stayed with the show for four seasons but was fired after an altercation with the show's publicist.
Today's birthdays
Comedian Don Rickles is 78. Environmentalist Sir David Attenborough is 78. Author Peter Benchley is 64. Singer Toni Tennille is 61. Philip Bailey (Earth, Wind and Fire) is 53. Rock musician Alex Van Halen is 51. Actor David Keith is 50. Actress Melissa Gilbert is 40. Singer Enrique Iglesias is 29.