Bardot guilty in race case

Brigitte Bardot was convicted yesterday of provoking discrimination and racial hatred for writing that Muslims are destroying France. A Paris court also handed down fines against the former screen siren and animal rights campaigner and ordered her to pay damages to a French anti-racism group known as MRAP. The group filed a lawsuit last year over a letter Bardot sent to then-Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy, now the president. Bardot said France is "tired of being led by the nose by this population that is destroying us, destroying our country by imposing its acts." Bardot, 73, was referring to the Muslim feast of Aid el-Kebir, celebrated by slaughtering sheep. (AP)

Actress Tatum O'Neal, 44, told a newspaper columnist she is grateful to the New York City police officers who busted her Sunday for cocaine. "I'm still sober!" O'Neal told New York Post columnist Andrea Peyser after her release from custody Monday. "Just when I was about to change that and wreck my life, the cops came and saved me!" O'Neal is due back in court July 28 to face a misdemeanor charge of possession of a controlled substance. (AP)

"I may force myself to do it one more time because the result is so worth it."--Gwyneth Paltrow, on adding to her brood, in July's Harper's Bazaar