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Mel Gibson gets ‘Hangover 2’ cameo
NEW YORK
Mel Gibson will make a cameo in “The Hangover 2” as a tattoo artist. The film, a sequel to the 2009 hit comedy “The Hangover,” is beginning production, with a release scheduled for May 2011.
Gibson might be hoping some comedy improves his tarnished reputation: a memorable appearance in the first “Hangover” film helped rehabilitate Mike Tyson’s image. Authorities are investigating claims by Gibson’s ex-girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva that the 54-year-old actor-director physically abused her. Audio purportedly of Gibson making a series of racist and misogynistic rants was leaked earlier this year.
Actor who played Tarzan’s Boy dies
CHULA VISTA, Calif.
Johnny Sheffield, who played the character Boy in the Tarzan movies of the 1930s and ’40s, has died at age 79. His wife, Patty Sheffield, told the Los Angeles Times that he died Friday of a heart attack at his home in the San Diego suburb of Chula Vista. She says he fell off a ladder earlier.
‘Gone Baby Gone’ actress charged
QUINCY, Mass.
An actress acclaimed for her tough-talking performance in the 2007 film “Gone Baby Gone” is facing charges after she and another man reportedly broke into a neighbor’s apartment south of Boston, police said Tuesday. Jill Quigg, 35, of Quincy, who played the role of Dottie in the movie directed by Ben Affleck, was arrested Friday after police were called about a break-in at a Quincy apartment, according to police.
Quincy Lt. Jack Sullivan said Quigg and Georgios Keskinidis, 28, of Lynn, were stopped near the apartment and told police that a black man had broken into it and was running off with a 32-inch flat- screen television and a new computer printer.
Sullivan said the pair told police they chased the man as he dropped the items. However, Sullivan said witnesses at the scene identified Quigg and Keskinidis as the ones leaving the apartment.
Hotel Chelsea for sale
NEW YORK
New York City’s legendary Hotel Chelsea is for sale. The 1883 building has offered shelter for some of the world’s most celebrated artists including Bob Dylan, Andy Warhol, Arthur Miller and Eugene O’Neil. It’s also where The Sex Pistols’ Sid Vicious reportedly stabbed his girlfriend to death in 1978.
The building, with its signature wrought iron balconies, was declared a landmark in 1966. It was the city’s first cooperative apartment complex when it was built and has been owned and operated for more than 65 years by the same controlling families.
T.I.: sentence is his final lesson
ATLANTA
Rapper T.I. says he’s learned his final lesson after a federal judge ordered him back to prison for 11 months. A federal judge in Atlanta ruled last week that the Grammy-winning rap artist, whose real name is Clifford Harris Jr., must return to prison for violating the terms of his supervised release on federal weapons charges. He was arrested in California last month on suspicion of drug possession.
T.I. told radio station V103-FM in Atlanta on Monday that he’s learned by trial and error after each arrest and has learned his final lesson.
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