It happens to the best of us. Rick Schroder is 30 today. Yes, the “NYPD Blue” leading man — formerly the “Silver Spoons” kid and “Lonesome Dove” cowboy — enters the aged ranks of the young middle-aged today. Schroder was born April 13, 1970, in New York.
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UNSEXY SEX SCANDAL! An Arizona man was busted by the feds today on allegations he tried to extort more than $250,000 from “Family Feud” funnyman Louie Anderson in a bid to buy his silence about a reputed sexual overture issued by the burly comic.
TIMING IS EVERYTHING: In Los Angeles, a judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by formerly acclaimed filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola over the Carl Sagan book turned movie “Contact.” Coppola said the late Sagan stole the idea for his sci-fi story in the mid-1980s. The judge said Coppola, in filing in 1994, waited too long to complain.
FOR THOSE WITH REALLY GOOD CABLE: The elusive Marlon Brando has taped a commercial for a telecommunications company to debut this weekend in Italy.
A LEG UP: In Britain, Paul McCartney‘s one-legged girlfriend, Heather Mills, has been awarded more than $361,000 in damages for a 1993 motorcycle accident that left her one-legged.
NOW HEAR THIS: Set to debut on toy shelves next week, an all-new Barbie dubbed “Sign Language Barbie.”
CZECH MATE: For those of you planning to catch a Friday night screening of “American Psycho” in the Czech Republic, you’re screwed. The local distributor there has decided to pass on the R-rated flick on account of it seems to be a tad on the morally repugnant side.
