hSpurs' Tony Parker cited; Longoria was passenger

hSpurs' Tony Parker cited;Longoria was passenger
SAN ANTONIO -- San Antonio Spurs guard Tony Parker was cited for impeding traffic and failing to produce a valid Texas driver's license during a traffic stop in which "Desperate Housewives" actress Eva Longoria was his passenger, police said.
The incident happened early Saturday. According to police, a bicycle officer saw a stopped car impeding traffic and rapped on the hood with his hand.
Parker, who was behind the wheel, questioned why the officer touched the car, and the couple "began screaming in a verbally abusive and demeaning manner," police said.
Police said Parker then began to drive away, almost hitting a man standing nearby.
After being told to stop and get out, Parker showed a French driver's license, police said.
The officer who wrote the citations said that Parker complained: "This is all the cops do, just mess with people," and that Longoria shouted from the car: "He's just a Mexican bike cop! He only wants your autograph!"
Longoria denied making the comment.
"It's a shame that one officer conducted himself in such an inappropriate and disorderly manner. I never made any sort of racial slurs, let alone made any comments about the officer being Mexican, as a Mexican myself," Longoria said through her publicist.
Child-abuse investigationof Gary Glitter completed
HANOI, Vietnam -- Police have completed their investigations into child abuse allegations against veteran British rocker Gary Glitter, his attorney said Monday.
Glitter, 61, his lawyer Le Thanh Kinh and prosecutors will all receive a copy of the police report, and prosecutors will take about a month to decide whether to put him on trial.
Glitter, whose real name is Paul Francis Gadd, is being held in a prison on suspicion of engaging in obscene acts with a child, an offense punishable by up to 12 years behind bars.
He was seized while trying to board a flight to Bangkok from Ho Chi Minh City on Nov. 19.
Glitter won fame as a flamboyant glam rocker in the 1970s. He was convicted in Britain in 1999 of possessing child pornography and served half of a four-month jail term.
No risk in portrayingtranssexual, Huffman says
SAN FRANCISCO -- Risk? There was nothing to risk for Felicity Huffman in playing a man becoming a woman.
"I'm not a beauty. That's not my thing. So it wasn't like I was risking anything," Huffman said in Sunday's San Francisco Chronicle. "What I was risking is whether I could do it. There are many places to fall."
Huffman, 43, was nominated for two best-actress Golden Globes on Dec. 14 -- as Stanley/Bree in the film "Transamerica" and as the beleaguered mom Lynette in TV's "Desperate Housewives."
As for rumors of dissension with co-stars Nicollette Sheridan, Teri Hatcher, Eva Longoria and Marcia Cross, Huffman denied them.
"They were waiting for us to fight before we even started airing," she said.
"I mean, it was last year before we even got on the air, and we were reading rags, and I'd say, 'Look, Nicollette. I'm in a fight with you."'
Notable death
Argentina Brunetti, a character actress who played the worried wife of Mr. Martini in the classic film "It's a Wonderful Life," has died. She was 98.
Brunetti died in her sleep Tuesday in Rome, said Ben Ohmart, whose Boalsburg, Pa.,-based publishing house, BearManor Media, released Brunetti's autobiography. She had moved to Rome last year to live with her son, Mario, and his family, he said.
Brunetti starred in dozens of films and television shows over a career spanning more than 50 years.
She portrayed Dean Martin's mother in the 1953 comedy "The Caddy," in which Martin sings "That's Amore" to her, and performed with Desi Arnaz in the 1949 film "Holiday in Havana."
Today's Birthdays
Former U.S. Sen. James A. McClure (R-Idaho) is 81. Rockabilly musician Scotty Moore is 74. ABC News correspondent Cokie Roberts is 62. Singer Tracy Nelson is 61. Actor Gerard Depardieu is 57. Jazz singer-musician T.S. Monk is 56. Singer-songwriter Karla Bonoff is 54. Rock musician David Knopfler (Dire Straits) is 53. Broadcast journalist Arthur Kent is 52. Actress Maryam D'Abo is 45. Country musician Jeff Bryant is 43. Actress Eva LaRue is 39. Rock musician Guthrie Govan (Asia) is 34. Musician Matt Slocum is 33. Actor Wilson Cruz is 32. Singer Olu is 32.
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