Less than a day after his re lease from a hospital following a drug overdose, US actor Charlie Sheen (32) left a drug rehabilitation centre and was picked up by police and taken to another hospital for observation, authorities said.
Sheen who has starred in Platoon, Wall Street and most recently, Money Talks, was stopped on Saturday while on the Pacific Coast Highway in a limousine with friends. The hospital said Sheen was never formally admitted and was not there on Sunday.
Actor Jim Carrey wants to break out of the role assigned to him. "To me, it's the saddest thing in the world to see a comedian at 60 doing the same character and the same act," he says in the latest Time magazine cover story.
Better known for the Ace Ventura comedies, Carrey plays the unwitting star in his latest film, The Truman Show.
Former Men at Work band member Ron Strykert has been jailed for 24 hours in the US on contempt charges for failing to make child-support payments and a property settlement to his former wife. The lead guitarist for the Australian rock 'n' roll group left the band to join a New Age church which frowns on rock music.
English socialite Tamara Beckwith (27) is to star in her first film - playing a rich young women in an adaptation of Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband. The Londoner will feature alongside an all-star line-up of British stars including Prunella Scales, Jonathan Firth, Sadie Frost, Robert Hardy and James Wilby.
Spain's King Juan Carlos and Queen Sophia have arrived in Greece for the first official visit of the former Greek princess since her brother lost the Greek throne. Largely anti-monarchist, Greece unrolled the red carpet for the Spanish royals at a welcoming ceremony outside the presidential palace.
Greek and Spanish officials have been eager to avoid the anti-royalist protests which have marked previous private visits by Sophia's brother, former king Constantine.