Daniel Baldwin could face reckless-driving charges

Daniel Baldwin could face reckless - driving charges in Los Angeles after he drove a rented Ford Thunderbird at speeds of more than 80 mph through traffic and crashed into two parked cars, police said. Baldwin was detained for questioning and examined at a hospital after complaining of back and neck pain, Officer Martha Garcia said yesterday. ``He was not arrested," she said. ``He was detained for questioning, then afterward they determined they were going to file charges." An after-hours message left for Baldwin's attorney was not immediately returned. Shortly before 1 p.m. Wednesday, police officers said they observed Baldwin's car traveling at more than 80 mph. The car wove in and out of traffic and ran a red light before striking the two parked cars, including a Hummer that was pushed about 20 feet by the impact, authorities said. Baldwin, who was driving with a suspended license, refused to cooperate with a police officer, who drew his gun to get the actor to comply. Baldwin, 45, is the brother of Alec, Stephen , and William, and has appeared in films such as ``Car 54, Where Are You?" and ``Attack of the 50-Foot Woman." In April, prosecutors declined to file felony charges against Baldwin after his arrest in a cocaine possession case.

We have a Suri sighting. Although Suri Cruise has not been seen in public since her April 18 birth, Leah Remini, a friend of Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise, and a fellow Scientologist, says she has seen the infant. ``She's a beaming baby. She looks like Tom and Katie. She's just beautiful," the 36-year-old actress, star of the CBS sitcom ``The King of Queens," tells People magazine in its July 31 issue. Remini says she held Suri during a recent visit to the couple's home in Los Angeles.

Kate Hudson (above) has accepted libel damages from a supermarket tabloid that claimed she was dangerously thin. The British edition of the National Enquirer has agreed to pay undisclosed damages and print an apology for an October 2005 article that claimed Hudson was ``way too thin" and looked ``like skin and bones," Simon Smith, a lawyer for the 27-year-old actress, said yesterday. American Media Inc., the magazine's US-based publisher, apologized for ``the deep distress and acute embarrassment" caused by the allegations, which it acknowledged were false. The article -- accompanied by a photo of a gaunt-looking Hudson -- claimed her mother, Goldie Hawn, planned to confront her about her weight. Both Hudson and Hawn denied the claim.

Victor Willis, the original policeman in '70s disco band The Village People, has pleaded no contest to drug possession charges. Willis, 54, was arrested in March in South San Francisco after police stopped his car and said they found cocaine and drug paraphernalia. At the time, he faced a bench warrant for failing to appear at his October sentencing hearing in San Mateo County Superior Court on another drug charge. A judge will decide Sept. 1 whether Willis should be sentenced to a residential drug treatment program or prison. He has been in custody since his arrest. Willis, who co-wrote hits such as ``Macho Man," ``YMCA , " and ``In the Navy," left The Village People in 1980.

Matthew McConaughey is selling a sports car on eBay to raise money for hurricane relief. The 36-year-old actor is donating all proceeds from the sale of his 1971 Corvette Stingray convertible to Oprah's Angel Network for Katrina and Rita recovery efforts, according to details on the website www.oprah.com. McConaughey, who is from Texas, says he bought the Mediterranean blue sports car in the late 1990s at a California car show. He dubbed it Mako, like the shark, according to his statement on the website, and has driven to Mexico and back in the vehicle and many times across Texas, with the top down.

Haley Joel Osment fractured a rib and hurt his shoulder in a car crash early yesterday, his doctor said. The actor was in good condition and expected to make a complete recovery, said Dr. Paul Gilbert, an orthopedic surgeon at Huntington Hospital. He said Osment, 18, would remain hospitalized at least through today. Osment, nominated for an Academy Award for ``The Sixth Sense," was driving a 1995 Saturn about 1 a.m. when the car crashed into a mailbox on a brick base in La Canada Flintridge and flipped over, Los Angeles County sheriff's Lieutenant Greg Sisneros said. Osment was alone and headed home when the crash occurred, he said.

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