newsmakers

April 9, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

newsmakers

Megan Fox protests school budget cuts

LOS ANGELES

Megan Fox and her sometime boyfriend, actor Brian Austin Green, are protesting California school budget cuts in a new video online.

In a video posted Wednesday on the comic Web site FunnyorDie.com, Fox urges viewers to “call, write and annoy the governor until he cries for his mommy.”

She says more than $17 billion has been cut from state educational programs over the past two years, and Green says the “terminators in Sacramento” plan to cut an additional $2.5 billion.

State Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O’Connell said last month that budget cuts have caused a 17 percent jump in the number of school districts facing financial uncertainty.

Fox and Green’s 31‚Ñ2-minute video had been viewed more than 66,500 times by Wednesday afternoon.

Camilla breaks leg while hiking

london

Camilla, the wife of Prince Charles, has broken her left leg while hiking in Scotland, royal officials said Thursday.

The 62-year-old royal was walking in the hills Wednesday when she slipped and fractured the leg, Clarence House said in a statement. The break was confirmed by an X-ray Thursday.

Clarence House said that while Camilla would be wearing a plaster cast for the next six weeks, she still intended to carry out her official engagements.

Clarence House declined to say at which hospital the Duchess of Cornwall was being treated or where exactly she fell.

Camilla has been staying at Birkhall, Prince Charles’ private home on the queen’s Balmoral estate in Scotland.

He and Camilla typically spend their summers there, fishing and walking in the Scottish countryside, according to Charles’ Web site.

Cage’s mansion doesn’t sell

LOS ANGELES

A Bel-Air mansion owned by Nicolas Cage has found no takers in a foreclosure auction.

The opening bid for the actor’s 12,000-square-foot home was $10.4 million, but there are $18 million worth of loans on the property.

The Tudor mansion boasts six bedrooms, a central tower, home theater and an Olympic-sized pool. The house reverted to the foreclosing lender at Wednesday’s auction in Pomona.

Even though he’s one of Hollywood’s highest-paid stars, Cage has money troubles. He owes millions in unpaid taxes and in January, his foreclosed home in Las Vegas sold for nearly $5 million.

Cage sued his former business manager in October for $20 million, claiming the man’s advice led him toward financial ruin. The ex-manager says Cage is a spendthrift.