‘Princess and the Frog’ No. 1 at the box office

Former “Family Ties’’ actor Brian Bonsall has been charged in Colorado with second-degree assault after police say he hit a friend in the head with a wooden stool. Bonsall, 28, could face two to six years in prison if convicted of the charge that prosecutors filed Friday. Police arrested Bonsall (inset) last week and he’s being held on $7,500 bail in Boulder. Police say Bonsall was also wanted on a warrant for missing a court hearing in 2007 on suspicion of violating bond conditions on another case. In that case, he had been sentenced to two years’ probation for assaulting his girlfriend. Bonsall played Andy, the youngest Keaton sibling, on the 1980s NBC sitcom that starred Michael J. Fox. (AP)

Jamaican reggae star Buju Banton is facing a drug charge in Florida. Banton, whose real name is Mark Anthony Myrie, has been in US federal custody in Miami since Thursday. Drug Enforcement Administration spokesman David Melenkevitz said yesterday that Banton was arrested on a charge of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute more than five kilograms of cocaine. The charge stems from a Tampa case. An e-mail to Banton’s record label was not immediately returned yesterday. Banton’s ninth album, “Rasta Got Soul,’’ is nominated for a Grammy. The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, which is run by Massachusetts State Senator Jarrett Barrios, launched an online petition protesting the nomination, saying some of Banton’s earlier lyrics have advocated violence against gay people. (AP)

Got a problem with your love life? Ask Ashley. That would be Ashley Dupre, the former call girl whose tryst with Eliot Spitzer led him to resign as governor of New York last year. The New York Post has hired Dupre, 24, to write a weekly advice column dealing with sex and relationships. The column in Sunday’s paper is illustrated with photos of Dupre wearing glasses and a conservative suit, along with a half-unbuttoned blouse and 6-inch heels. A video on the newspaper’s website shows Dupre posing coquettishly and signing her name in the air. Meredith, 40, from Queens asks, “How do I know if my daughter may be getting into trouble?’’ Dupre responds, “It’s all a matter of having the right perspective and approach. Most teenagers will do stupid things.’’ Dupre then adds that she herself was an honor roll student but “things really changed for me when my brother ran away when he was 15 and my parents were terrified that the same thing would happen to me, so they were incredibly strict with me . . . and that caused me to rebel and go the opposite way.’’ Dupre was known as “Kristen’’ at the Emperor’s Club VIP, the escort service that arranged her rendezvous with Spitzer at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington. Spitzer resigned in March 2008 after it was revealed he was the Emperor’s Club’s “Client 9.’’ Four people who operated or worked the escort service have pleaded guilty to various federal charges; neither Spitzer nor Dupre has been charged. Since his resignation, Spitzer has worked in his father’s real estate firm and served as an adjunct professor of political science at City College of New York. A spokesman for the Post did not immediately return a call seeking comment about the column, and a message left at Spitzer’s office was not immediately returned. (AP)