Axl Rose arrested

Axl Rose arrested
STOCKHOLM, Sweden -- Axl Rose was arrested early Tuesday after being accused of biting a security guard in the leg in a hotel scuffle, police said.
The Guns N' Roses frontman was held on suspicion of attacking and threatening the guard and causing damage to the Berns Hotel, said police spokeswoman Towe Hagg.
"He was deemed too intoxicated to be questioned right away," Hagg told The Associated Press. She said a prosecutor will decide whether to press charges.
It was unclear what caused the fight, but Swedish tabloids said the guard tried to intervene when the 44-year-old rocker started arguing with a woman in the hotel lobby.
A letter from Harper Lee
MONROEVILLE, Ala. -- Harper Lee, author of the novel "To Kill A Mockingbird," has written a rare published item -- a letter for Oprah Winfrey's magazine on how she became a reader as a child in a rural, Depression-era Alabama town.
The 80-year-old Pulitzer Prize winner quit giving interviews about 40 years ago and, other than a 1983 review of an Alabama history book, has published nothing of significance in some four decades. That makes her article for O, The Oprah Magazine, something of a literary coup for the television talk show celebrity.
In a letter for the magazine's July "special summer reading issue," Lee writes about the scarcity of books in the 1930s in Monroeville, where she grew up and where she lives part of each year. That deficit, combined with a lack of anything else to do -- no movies for kids, no parks for games -- made books especially treasured, she writes.
kArquette weds actor
LOS ANGELES -- "Medium" star Patricia Arquette married her actor paramour, Thomas Jane, in Venice, Italy, a publicist for the show said Monday.
Arquette, 38, and Jane wed Sunday "surrounded by family and friends," publicist Jennifer Solari said.
Engaged since 2002, the two have a daughter, 3-year-old Harlow. Arquette, formerly married to Nicolas Cage, also has a 17-year-old son, Enzo, from her relationship with musician Paul Rossi.
End of Harry Potter?
LONDON -- J.K. Rowling said two characters will die in the last installment of her boy wizard series, and she hinted Harry Potter might not survive, either.
"I have never been tempted to kill him off before the final because I've always planned seven books, and I want to finish on seven books," Rowling said on Monday's "Richard and Judy" TV show.
"I can completely understand, however, the mentality of an author who thinks, 'Well, I'm gonna kill them off because that means there can be no nonauthor written sequels. So it will end with me, and after I'm dead and gone they won't be able to bring back the character."'
Naomi Campbell sued
NEW YORK -- Naomi Campbell is being accused of less-than-model behavior again: Another of her maids claims the supermodel hit her.
In a terse filing in a state court in Manhattan on Monday, Gaby Gibson accuses Campbell of injuries, employment discrimination, "civil assault, civil battery" and other wrongs.
Gibson sued on the eve of a scheduled Manhattan Criminal Court appearance by Campbell on charges of assaulting another maid. The damages she seeks are not specified in the lawsuit.
Today's birthdays
Comedian-movie director Mel Brooks is 80. Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., is 72. Former White House chief of staff Leon Panetta is 68. Rock musician Dave Knights (Procul Harum) is 61. Actress Kathy Bates is 58. Actress Alice Krige is 52. Football Hall of Famer John Elway is 46. Actress Jessica Hecht is 41. Actress Mary Stuart Masterson is 40. Actor John Cusack is 40. Actress-singer Danielle Brisebois is 37.