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Lohan charged after accident

NEW YORK

Lindsay Lohan was arrested in New York early Wednesday on charges that she clipped a pedestrian with her car and did not stop driving, but her publicist said he expects the allegations to be proven false.

The 26-year-old actress was arrested at 2:25 a.m. as she left a nightclub at the Dream Hotel in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood, police said. They said no alcohol was involved.

Lohan was charged with leaving the scene of an accident and causing injury. She was given a ticket and scheduled to appear in court on Oct. 23.

Police said Lohan was slowly driving a black Porsche through an alley between the Dream Hotel and the Maritime Hotel on 16th Street when the accident occurred. The victim called 911. He was treated at a hospital for a knee injury and released.

It was the latest car accident involving Lohan.

On June 8, Lohan was involved in a crash in California that sent her and her assistant to a hospital. They were on their way to a shoot for the film “Liz and Dick” when Lohan’s Porsche collided with a dump truck on the Pacific Coast Highway. Neither was seriously injured and Lohan resumed shooting later in the day.

The accident remains under investigation.

Oscar nomination date jumps ahead

LOS ANGELES

The dynamics have shifted for Hollywood’s upcoming film honors now that the Academy Awards nominations are moving ahead of the Golden Globes.

Organizers said Tuesday that nominations for the 85th Oscars will be announced Jan. 10 — five days earlier than the academy previously planned.

The date change puts the Oscar nominations three days before Hollywood’s second-biggest film awards — the Golden Globes, whose ceremony takes place Jan. 13.

Oscar nominations typically come out after the Globes.

Oscar overseers say the switch will give the academy’s nearly 6,000 members more time to see nominated films before the Feb. 24 awards ceremony.

Dennis Hopper’s lost prints on show

BERLIN

A collection of more than 400 recently rediscovered prints in which Dennis Hopper documented the U.S. arts scene of the mid-1960s, the civil-rights movement and much more is going on show in Berlin.

The actor and director’s daughter, Marin Hopper, said Wednesday of the exhibition at the German capital’s Martin-Gropius-Bau: “It’s a visit with him. It’s like being with him — it’s a very intimate experience seeing the photographs.”

The black-and-white, small-format photos were taken between 1961 and 1967, when Hopper was out of favor in Hollywood and before he directed “Easy Rider.”

The prints were selected by Hopper for an exhibit in Fort Worth, Texas, in 1970.

The prints were found among Hopper’s belongings after he died in 2010.

Vindicator wire reports