'Sopranos' actor guilty

'Sopranos' actor guilty
NEW YORK -- Big Pussy's case is closed. "Sopranos" actor Vincent Pastore pleaded guilty Monday to attempting to assault a former girlfriend last spring.
As part of the plea deal, Pastore will perform 70 hours of community service, attend six months of weekly anger management therapy and pay a $190 fine. If convicted at trial, he could have been sentenced to as much as a year in jail.
Pastore, 59, was accused of attacking Lisa Regina, 44, during an argument in Little Italy. Prosecutors said he punched her in the back of the head, grabbed her hair and forced her head down on a car's gear shift.
When the judge asked Monday whether he attempted to strike Regina, Pastore replied, "Yes, I did."
The actor, a Navy veteran, said he wanted to serve his community service at a Veterans Administration hospital in the Bronx neighborhood where he was born.
Pastore played gangster Salvatore "Big Pussy" Bonpensiero, who was killed early in the series as payback for snitching on the mob.
Music comes before activism, Bono says
NEW YORK -- Bono says he'd rather be remembered for his music than for his activism.
A dedicated lobbyist for the world's poor and AIDS-stricken, the U2 front man told CBS' "60 Minutes" that "I think my work -- the activism -- will be forgotten."
"And I hope it will. Because I hope those problems will have gone away," he said in an interview that aired Sunday.
Since 1999, Bono has helped persuade Republicans and Democrats, presidents and lawmakers, to provide millions of dollars to help end the scourge of AIDS, eliminate poverty in Africa and forgive Third World debt.
The Irish rocker also predicted that his music will still be around in 100 years, explaining that his songs occupy "an emotional terrain that didn't exist before our group did."
Bono noted that people in rock 'n' roll burn out at 40, and said he wanted to see if his band could continue making "extraordinary" music.
Today's birthdays
Former Sen. Claiborne Pell, D-R.I., is 87. Movie director Arthur Hiller is 82. Actor Robert Vaughn is 73. Actor Michael Callan is 70. Actor Allen Garfield is 66. Animator and movie director Terry Gilliam is 65. Actor Tom Conti is 64. Singer Jesse Colin Young is 64. Astronaut Guion S. Bluford is 63. Tennis player Billie Jean King is 62. Rock musician-actor Steve Van Zandt (AKA Little Steven) is 55. Rock musician Tina Weymouth (The Heads; Talking Heads; The Tom Tom Club) is 55. Former baseball player Greg Luzinski is 55. Rock musician Lawrence Gowan is 49. Actor Richard Kind is 49. Actress Jamie Lee Curtis is 47. Rock singer Jason Ringenberg (Jason & amp; the Scorchers) is 47. Actress Mariel Hemingway is 44. Actor Stephen Geoffreys is 41. Rock musician Charlie Colin is 39. Actor Nicholas Rowe is 39. Actor Mark Ruffalo is 38. Tennis player Boris Becker is 38. Actress Scarlett Johansson is 21.