Love faces charges in Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES, July 24 (UPI) -- Rock star Courtney Love has returned to Los Angeles to face assault charges, surrendering at the Wilshire police station.
E! Online reported Love, who had been wanted on a warrant, was bailed after a half-hour for $150,000.
"She was very cooperative throughout the entire process," said Capt. Patrick Findley, of the Los Angeles Police Department.
Love is to be arraigned Aug. 20 on an assault charge stemming an alleged April attack on another woman at the Los Angeles home of Love's ex-boyfriend and onetime manager.
Love's lawyer, Michael Rosenstein, has explained his client failed to appear for a July 9 hearing in Los Angeles because she was confused that she had to be there. The same day, she was rushed to a New York City hospital for what Rosenstein described as "an emergency gynecological condition."
Meanwhile, Love has 24 hours to appear before another judge, Superior Court Judge Patricia Schnegg, concerning her guilty plea last May on a misdemeanor count of being under the influence of cocaine when she broke several windows in a former-boyfriend's house last October.
'Bands Reunited' set for September on VH1
LOS ANGELES, July 24 (UPI) -- The second season of "Bands Reunited" is set for Sept. 6 on
U.S. cable's VHI, with reunions of New Kids On The Block, The Motels, Haircut 100 and ABC.
VH1 says Bands break up for a variety of reasons from health challenges to creative differences, but for one more they are reunited for one more performance on"Bands Reunited."
The show's host, Aamer Haleem, says getting the bands together again is not easy.
For example, the program examines how the group ABC disbanded after its lead singer developed Hodgkin's Disease and how Martha Davis, disbanded The Motels because of her cancer scare. The show also asks how band members deal with not being in the limelight anymore.
The show is produced by Kim Rozenfeld, Julio Kollerbohm, Lisa Knapp, Eddie October and Ken Fuchs.
Adrien Brody relishes filming in Pa.
NEW YORK, July 24 (UPI) -- Quintessential New Yorker Adrien Brody says he relished the chance to film his new period movie "The Village" in the wilds of Pennsylvania.
"Yes, I am very much a New Yorker, but I've always dreamed of kind of having the country place in upstate New York," the former camp counselor and Oscar-winning actor told reporters in Manhattan recently.
"It's very similar, actually, to where we were shooting in Pennsylvania. I love the wilderness. I love being in touch with nature. You somehow have a moment to decompress and see what's really important, and it's very difficult in this hectic a world to go back to basics."
Brody and his co-stars Joaquin Phoenix, Bryce Dallas Howard, William Hurt and Sigourney Weaver were all asked to leave their cell phones, Ipods and laptop computers at home during a three-week rehearsal period for M. Night Shyamalan's latest suspense drama.
J.K. Rowling expecting her third child
LONDON, July 24 (UPI) -- J.K. Rowling, the author of the best-selling Harry Potter books, has announced she is expecting her third child next year.
Sky News reported Saturday that she announced the news via her Web site.
"I am really delighted to say that I am expecting a third baby, who is due next year," Rowling wrote. "I always wanted three children, so I could not be happier."
Rowling has a daughter, Jessica, from a previous marriage to Jorges Arantes, and a son, David, born last year following her marriage to Neil Murray.
However, the writer assured fans her pregnancy would not affect the release of the next Potter book: "Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince."
"Book six remains well on track and I don't foresee any baby-related interruptions or delays," she said.
Redford fights claustrophobia in 'Clearing'
LOS ANGELES, July 24 (UPI) -- U.S. actor and filmmaker Robert Redford says one reason he stared in "The Clearing" was because it forced him to confront his real-life claustrophobia.
The kidnap drama is about a successful businessman, played by Redford, who is kidnapped by a laid-off worker, played by Willem Dafoe, is held for ransom in the woods. His wife, played by Helen Mirren, frantically works with the FBI to bring him home.
Redford spent much of the film held against his will, something he said made him feel very uncomfortable, he admitted to reporters.
"(I liked) the story because it was offbeat ... I liked what I thought the theme underneath it was, which was the two sides of the American dream," said the 66-year-old actor. "I was drawn to the character because of the challenge of being in a claustrophobic situation."
The Sundance Institute founder revealed that he was very claustrophobic.
I do not like to sit too long in a chair. I don't like to be confined," he said. "I hated it, but it was good. That's the reason for the close photography in the film because in the film, (is about how) how this event, this shock, is affecting their lives."
