Officials delay decision on Miss California’s title

Officials delay decision on Miss California’s title

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Officials of the Miss California USA pageant have strongly criticized titleholder Carrie Prejean but say it’s not their decision whether she should be stripped of her crown.

Co-executive directors Keith Lewis and Shanna Moakler told a Beverly Hills press conference Monday that only Miss USA pageant owner Donald Trump can make that decision.

The 21-year-old San Diego native created controversy during the Miss USA pageant when she said she believes marriage should only be between a man and a woman.

The state pageant has been investigating whether she violated her contract by making public appearances with groups opposed to same-sex marriage. Prejean also failed to reveal that she once posed in her underwear.

Jane’s Addiction singer hurts leg at Atlanta show

ATLANTA — Jane’s Addiction lead singer Perry Farrell is recovering from a torn calf muscle he suffered on stage at a concert in Atlanta.

The creator of the Lollapalooza music festival hurt himself during the first song Sunday night at Lakewood Amphitheatre but was able to finish the show.

According to a statement from the band’s publicist, he was taken by ambulance to Atlanta Medical Center after the show.

Doctors told him to stay off the leg for several days, but Farrell says he still plans to perform as planned tonight in Austin, Texas.

The influential alternative band, best known for its 1990 album “Ritual de lo Habitual,” broke up a year later but reunited with its original lineup last year and is touring with Nine Inch Nails.

‘Titanic’ stars will help last survivor with fees

LONDON — “Titanic” stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet have pledged to help the last survivor of the sinking of the ocean liner.

The stars say they have thrown their support behind a fund that would subsidize Millvina Dean’s nursing-home fees.

Dean was 2 months old when the Titanic sank beneath the waves on the night of April 14, 1912. She has been living at a nursing home in the English city of Southampton since she broke her hip about three years ago, but has struggled to pay the fees.

In October she sold several Titanic mementos to raise cash.

DiCaprio and Winslet said in a statement that they hoped Dean could rest easier knowing that her future was secure. The Millvina Fund was launched Monday in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Glover joins rally for union workers

HAMTRAMCK, Mich. — Actor Danny Glover joined labor, political and civil-rights leaders on one of the first stops of a four-day, 11-state tour supporting U.S. manufacturing workers.

The “Lethal Weapon” star told a crowd of mainly union workers Monday in the Detroit suburb of Hamtramck the “deindustrialization of the nation” began in Michigan, and its workers can be “the architects of their own rescue.”

Glover, the son of union members, said he stands with those affected by plant closings.

The event also included the Rev. Jesse Jackson, U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow and United Steelworkers International President Leo Gerard.

The 61-year-old actor said it would be his only appearance because he has to return to Los Angeles for work.

Today’s birthdays

Composer Burt Bacharach is 81. Country singer Billy Swan is 67. Singer Steve Winwood is 61. Actor Bruce Boxleitner is 59. Singer Billy Squier is 59. Actor Gabriel Byrne is 59. Country singer Kix Brooks of Brooks and Dunn is 54. Actor Ving Rhames is 50. Guitarist Billy Duffy of The Cult is 48. Actor Emilio Estevez is 47. Actor Stephen Baldwin is 43. Actress Kim Fields is 40. Actor Jason Biggs (“American Pie”) is 31. Actor Malcolm David Kelley (“Lost”) is 17.