Sideshow: Locklear pleads to reckless driving
A judge in Santa Barbara, Calif., yesterday dropped a DUI charge against Heather Locklear in a deal that had the actress plead guilty to the lesser charge of reckless driving.
A judge in Santa Barbara, Calif., yesterday dropped a DUI charge against
Heather Locklear
in a deal that had the actress plead guilty to the lesser charge of reckless driving.
TMZ.com reports that Locklear, who was arrested in September and charged with driving under the influence of prescription medication, will be put on three years' informal probation, and must pay a $700 fine and attend a 12-hour drug education course.
Will Smith top money-maker
Hancock
star
Will Smith
, 40, has been named 2008's biggest money-making movie star in a poll of movie theater owners.
Smith, who unseated last year's winner,
Johnny Depp
, is only the second African American to win the Quigley poll in its 76 years.
Sidney Poitier
won in 1968, for
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
and
In the Heat of the Night
.
Robert Downey Jr.
(
Iron Man
),
Christian Bale
(
Batman: The Dark Knight
), and
Shia LaBeouf
(
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
) were second, third and fourth.
Spears' brother weds
Britney Spears
' fractured family reunited on New Year's Eve for the wedding of Brit's older bro, sometime TV producer
Bryan
, 31, to
Graciella Sanchez
, 36, who manages the career of Brit and Bryan's little sis,
Jamie Lynn Spears
. Brit attended the small ceremony in New Orleans with her boys,
Jayden James
and
Preston
. Jamie Lynn brought along fiance,
Casey Aldridge
, and their newborn,
Maddie
.
New Year's Eve wars
The Hollywood Reporter says
Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve With Ryan Seacrest
on ABC was the year's most-watched countdown show, beating out
New Year's Eve With Carson Daly
on NBC and
Anderson Cooper
's disastrous hoedown with
Kathy Griffin
on CNN.
Cooper flummoxed by Griffin
CNN's mild-mannered anchor had trouble containing the loudmouthed comic, who managed to shock network execs by responding to a heckler in Times Square with foul language. "Shut up!" Griff said to the guy. "I'm working! Why don't you get a job, buddy?" She followed up with a homophobic remark, using a slang term for the male genitals.
Palin: Bristol making the grade
Bristol Palin
, 18, and her fiance,
Levi Johnston
, who welcomed their baby,
Tripp Easton Mitchell Johnston
, on Dec. 27, may be unwed teen parents, but they are not -
not!
- high school dropouts. So says grams
Sarah Palin
in response to rumors that the Palin-Johnston menagerie is just this side of illiterate.
"Bristol begins her final semester of high school next week," said Palin, adding that Bristol needs one "last credit . . . to graduate."
Palin insists that Levi is a most accomplished dude. Not only does he work "as an electrical apprentice," she said, but he "is continuing his online high school work." (Is that scholarly rapscallion about to nab a GED?)