Adrian Pasdar faces charge of drunken driving

February 23, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

LOS ANGELES — Court records show actor Adrian Pasdar has been charged with drunken driving, and his arraignment is scheduled for later this week.

The 44-year-old actor was arrested Jan. 27 after authorities say they spotted him speeding and veering over two lanes of traffic on a Los Angeles freeway.

He was charged with one count of driving under the influence Friday. City attorney spokesman Frank Mateljan says Pasdar’s arraignment is scheduled for Wednesday.

The actor’s manager, Will Flaherty, declined to comment.

Pasdar plays Nathan Petrelli on NBC’s “Heroes.” He’s married to Dixie Chicks singer Natalie Maines.

Cyrus, Efron, Lautner, Stewart join Oscar event

LOS ANGELES — Miley Cyrus, Zac Efron and “Twilight” co-stars Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner have joined the lineup at the Academy Awards.

Oscar organizers announced Monday that “Hannah Montana” star Cyrus, “High School Musical” co-star Efron and Stewart and Lautner will be presenters at the awards show March 7.

They are four of Hollywood’s biggest rising stars, bringing some youth appeal to the Oscars, whose overseers are trying to boost the show’s TV ratings.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences previously announced that Sean Penn, Kate Winslet and Penelope Cruz, who won acting Oscars a year ago, will present honors this time around.

Biography of the president to be released April 6

NEW YORK — A biography of President Barack Obama is coming this spring from New Yorker editor and Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Remnick.

Publisher Alfred A. Knopf says “The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama” will be released April 6. Knopf says Remnick conducted “hundreds of on-the-record interviews” for the book, including of Obama himself, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright and former radical Bill Ayers.

“The Bridge” also will include some of Obama’s private correspondence and letters by his mother, Shirley Ann Dunham.

Knopf is an imprint of Random House Inc. and a sister company of the Crown Publishing Group. The latter released Obama’s “Dreams from My Father” and “The Audacity of Hope.”

Disneyland will screen Michael Jackson film

ANAHEIM, Calif. — “Captain EO” and Michael Jackson are returning to Disneyland.

The park says it will show the 1986 Jackson musical film beginning today and running indefinitely.

On the Disney Parks blog, Disney executive Heather Hust Rivera says the park will show a 70mm print of the 17-minute movie with enhanced sound in the Tomorrowland theater.

However, Rivera says the showing won’t feature some special effects from the original presentation. She would not elaborate.

The original presentation included lasers and smoke.

Jackson, who died last year, plays the role of a spaceship captain who uses love and music to fight a wicked witch queen played by Anjelica Huston.

The original ran at Disneyland from 1986 to 1997. The new showing replaces the 3-D show “Honey, I Shrunk the Audience.”

Today’s birthdays

Actor-director Peter Fonda is 70. Musician Johnny Winter is 66. Actress Patricia Richardson (“Home Improvement”) is 59. Guitarist Brad Whitford of Aerosmith is 58. Singer Howard Jones is 55. Guitarist Michael Wilton of Queensryche is 48. Actress Kristin Davis is 45. Actor Marc Price (“Family Ties”) is 42. Actress Niecy Nash (“Reno 911!”) is 40. Bassist Jeff Beres of Sister Hazel is 39. Actress Emily Blunt is 27. Actress Dakota Fanning is 16.