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Associated PressDon Johnson has sued a trio of entertain-

ment companies, claiming he is owed mil-lions of dollars in profits from the TV series

Nash Bridges.Johnson filed his suit

Tuesday in Los Angeles Su-perior Court. He claims heowns half of the copyright toNash Bridges and has notbeen paid his share of a150 million syndication deal.

The series aired for sixseasons on CBS. Johnson,also of Miami Vice fame,also claims he has been

blocked from developing Nash Bridges foronline platforms.

He is suing the now-defunct Rysher En-tertainment, 2929 Entertainment whichwas founded by Mark Cuban and ToddWagner and Qualia Capital.

Johnson sues over show

Don Johnson

Associated PressThe estate of rock guitarist Jimi

Hendrix says it has won a trademark in-fringement lawsuit against a company

that promoted HendrixElectric vodka.

The ExperienceHendrix and AuthenticHendrix companies inSeattle say they won a$3.2 million federal courtjudgment that orders thevodka to be pulled fromthe market.

The family-ownedcompanies filed the

lawsuit in 2007 against Seattle business-man Craig Dieffenbach, who packagedthe vodka in purple-tinted bottles withHendrixs face and signature above thelabel.

Hendrix died in 1970 at age 27.

Hendrix estate winstrademark dispute

Jimi Hendrix

Actress Carlin Glynn ...............................................69inger Smokey Robinson ........................................69inger Bobby Rogers of Smokey Robinson

and the Miracles ....................................................69inger Lou Christie .................................................66

Actor Michael Nader (All My Children) ...................64Guitarist Tony Iommi of Black Sabbath ....................61Actor Jeff Daniels ...................................................54

inger-guitarist Dave Wakeling(General Public, English Beat) .................................53

alk show host Lorianne Crook ...............................52inger Seal ............................................................46

Drummer Jon Fishman of Phish ..............................44Actress Justine Bateman ........................................43Actor Benicio Del Toro (Traffic) .............................42Drummer Daniel Adair of 3 Doors Down ..................34

inger-actress Haylie Duff .......................................24

PEOPLE

TODAYS BIRTHDAYS

Associated PressOscar-winning actress Helen Mirren

will make an appearance on a U.S. stagethis fall in a production of Jean Racinestragedy Phedre.

The Royal National Theatre produc-tion will be put on at the ShakespeareTheater in Washington in September.The play will follow a three-month runin London, including a performance tobe simulcast in movie theaters aroundthe world in June.

Mirren, who will play Phedre, madeher reputation on London stages beforewinning the best-actress Oscar twoyears ago in The Queen.

The play also features Mamma Miaheartthrob Dominic Cooper.

Michael Kahn, artistic director of theShakespeare Theatre Company, saysthe wife of British Ambassador Sir NigelSheinwald suggested the productioncome to the theaters new playhouse,which opened in 2007.

Helen Mirren

Mirren to perform in Washington play this fall

Associated PressMickey Rourke is headed to the Academy

Awards both as a nominee and a grieving pet ownerafter the death of his 17-year-old Chihuahua, Loki.

A representative for Rourke, Judy Wo-loshen, said the actors beloved dog diedMonday night.

Says Rourke: Loki is deeply missed butwith me in spirit. I feel very blessed thatshe fell asleep peacefully in my arms.

Rourke, whos having a career come-back with his acclaimed performance inThe Wrestler, was especially close toLoki and is a longtime owner of Chihua-huas.

Rourke thanked all his dogs livingand dead after winning the GoldenGlobe for best actor last month, sayingsometimes when a mans alone, all you

got is your dog.

Rourkes beloved

Chihuahua diesMickey Rourkeand Loki

Associated PressKonrad Dannenberg, 96, of Hunts-

ville, Ala., a German rocket scientistwho was part of the Wernher von Braunteam that helped put the first Americanastronauts on the moon, died Monday ofnatural causes.

Vincent Marino, 91, of Lafayette,La., an editor who worked at The DailyAdvertiser for more than 50 years, diedTuesday. No cause of death was given.

Deaths in the news

CHICAGO (AP) Shouldhe resign? Can he be forcedout? Will he face charges?

Illinoisans who thoughtthey had put one big messb ehind t he mwith the oustero f Go v. Ro dB l a g o j e v i c hare getting thatqueasy, here-

w e - g o - a g a i nf ee li ng f ro mS en . R ol an dB ur ri s, w hohas given shift-ing accounts ofhow he came tobe appointed to the Senate.

I think he should resign,Jan Treptow, 58, a nurse inChicago, said Wednesday. Heseems to have lied. Weve gotenough dishonesty.

A preliminary Senate eth-

icscommittee inquiry is underway. Illinois lawmakers haveaskedlocal prosecutors to lookinto perjury charges. And thecalls for his resignation grow,even from his own party.

Our state and its citizensdeserve the whole truth, notbits and pieces only when it isconvenient, Rep. Phil Hare,D-Ill., said Wednesday in call-

ing on Burris to step down.Blagojevich was arrestedDec. 9 on charges he plotted tosell President Barack Obamasvacant Senate seat for cam-paign cash or a plum job forhimself. Before he could beimpeached and removed fromoffice, he defied lawmakers byappointing Burris to the Sen-ate.

Now Burris is accused of ly-ing to an Illinois House com-mittee back in January when

he testified that he hadnt hadcontact with key Blagojevichstaffers or offered anything inreturn for the seat.

Last weekend, Burris re-leased an affidavit saying hehad spoken to several Blago- jevich advisers, includingRobert Blagojevich, the for-mer governors brother andfinance chairman, who Burris

said called three times last fallasking for fundraising help.This week, Burris admittedtrying, unsuccessfully, to raisemoney for Blagojevich.

Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin,the U.S. Senates No. 2 Demo-crat, said Wednesday thatBurris statements need to belooked at very carefully.

His sworn testimony inSpringfield did not satisfy ourrequirement in that it wasnot complete and we need to

have thecompletestorybeforethe final conclusion that wereach, Durbin said.

Senate Majority LeaderHarry Reid, D-Nev., said hesnot calling for Burris to resigneven though the account ofhow he was appointed seemsto be changing day by day.

Its not for me to say thathe lied, Reid said Wednes-

day. I dont know if he lied ordidnt. Right now, hes a mem-ber of the Senate.

At a City Club of Chicagoluncheon Wednesday, a fieryBurrisaskedguests to stop therush to judgment.

If I had done the things Ibeenaccused of, I would betooembarrassed to stand up herein front of you because you allare my friends, Burris said.He then said he would no lon-ger speak with the media.

Burris saga angers Illinois residents

Roland BurrisSenator

STAMFORD, Conn. (AP) As authorities consid-ered criminal charges, thewoman whose 200-pounddomesticated chimpanzeewent berserk and mauled afriend backtracked Wednes-day on whether she gave

the animal the anti-anxietydrug Xanax.

S an dr a H er ol d t ol dthe Associated Press onW e d ne s d a ythat she nev-er gave thedrug to her1 4 - y e a r - o l dchimp, Tra-vis, who wass ho t d eadby Stamfordpolice Mon-day after heg r i e v o u s l yw o u n d e dHerolds friend CharlaNash.

However, Herold said inan interview aired Wednes-

day morning on NBCs To-day show that she gaveTravis the drug in some tealess than five minutes be-fore he attacked Nash sheeven showed a reporter themug. Police have said Her-old told them that she gaveTravis Xanax that had notbeen prescribed forhim ear-lier on Monday to calm himbecause he was agitated.

In humans, Xanax canlead to aggression in peoplewho are unstable to beginwith, said Dr. Emil Coccaro,chief of psychiatry at theUniversity of Chicago Medi-cal Center.

Xanax could have madehim worse, if human stud-

ies are any indication, Coc-caro said.

The chimpanzees ram-page forced Herold to stabher b el ov ed p et w it h abutcher knife and poundhim with a shovel.

For me to do something

like that put a knife inhim was like putting oneinmyself.she said Wednes-d ay . Then he t ur ne daround and like, Mom,what did you do?

Herolds voice was filledwith fear and horror in 911tapes released by policeTuesday night.

T ra vi s c an b e hea rdgrunting as she cries forhel p: He s k il li ng m yfriend!

The dispatcher says, Wh o s ki ll in g yo urfriend?

Herold replies, Mychim-panzee! He rippedher apart!Shoot him, shoot him!

After police arrived,

one officer radioed back:Theres a man down. Hedoesnt look good, he says,referring to the disfiguredNash. Weve got to get thisguy out of here. Hes got noface.

Doctors at Stamford Hos-pital said Wednesday that ittook four teams of surgeonsmore than seven hours tostabilize Nash, 55. Handspecialists, plastic surgeonsand specialists in orthope-dics, ophthalmology andtrauma have treated Nash,who has made slight prog-ress butremainedin criticalcondition, Dr. Kevin Millersaid at a news conferencewith the victims family.

Chimps owner saysanimal not on Xanax

Sandra HeroldOwner

AP

Police clear away debris from a barricade Wednesday after a night of rioting over high prices and lowwages in Petit-Bourg on the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe.

FORT-DE-FRANCE, Mar-tinique (AP) Thousands oftourists looking for fun in thesun have canceled vacationsto a pair of French Caribbeanislands, where violent strikeshave left one man dead, pilesof smelly uncollected garbagein the streets, and stores loot-ed and burned.

Protesters in Martiniqueand Guadeloupe have per-sisted with a work stoppageto demand higher salaries andlower prices, hurting scores ofbusinesses including restau-rants, hotels and car rentalagencies during the islandspeak winter tourist season,Martinique Tourism Author-ity chairwoman Madeleine deGrandmaison said Wednes-day.

Tourism is fragile, shesaid. People are not only can-celing this week, but also forall the months of February,March and April. We have ahuge deficit of tourists aheadof us.

At least 10,000 tourists havecanceled vacations in Mar-tinique and Guadeloupe, ac-

cording to the National TravelAgencies organization.Guadeloupes strike, waged

by residents struggling withsoaring living costs, has per-sisted for almost a month.Martiniques is in its thirdweek. A protester was shotdead late Tuesday on Gua-deloupe as youths went on arampage, looting 15 business-es andburning seven.Twenty-one cars were also torched.

Tourists cancel vacationsafter Guadeloupe unrest

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) eronimos descendants have

uedSkull and Bones the se-ret society at Yale Universityinked to presidents and otherowerful figures claiming

hat its members stole the re-ainsof the legendary Apache

eader decades ago and haveept them ever since.

The federal lawsuit filed inashington on Tuesday the

00th anniversary of Geroni-os death also names the

niversityand thefederal gov-rnment.

Geronimos great-grandsonarlynGeronimo saidhis fam-

ly believes Skull and Bonesembers took some of the

emains in 1918 from a buriallot in Fort Sill, Okla., to keep

n its New Haven clubhouse,crypt. The alleged graverob-

ing is a long-standing legendthat gained some validity in

recent years with the discov-ery of a letter from a memberthat described the theft.

The society is not affiliatedwith the university.

After years of famouslyfighting the U.S. and Mexicanarmies, Geronimo and 35 war-riors surrendered to Gen. Nel-son A. Miles near the Arizona-New Mexico border in 1886.

He was eventually sent toFort Sill and died at the Armyoutpost of pneumonia in 1909.

According to lore, membersofSkull andBones includingformer President George W.Bushs grandfather, PrescottBush dug up his gravewhen a group of Army volun-teers from Yale were stationedat the fort during World WarI, taking his skull and some ofhis bones.

Harlyn Geronimo,61, wantsthose remains.

Geronimos descendants sueSkull and Bones over remains

NEW YORK (AP) In anabout-face after a torrent ofonline protests, Facebook isbacking offa changein itsuserpolicies while it figures howbest to resolve questions likewho controls the informationshared on the social network-ing site.

The site, which boasts175 million users from aroundthe world, had quietly updat-ed its terms of use its gov-erning document a coupleof weeks ago. The changessparked an uproar after pop-ular consumer rights advo-

cacy blog Consumerist.compointed them out Sunday, ina post titled Facebooks NewTerms Of Service: We Can DoAnything We Want With YourContent. Forever.

Facebook has since soughtto reassure its users tens ofthousands of whom had joinedprotest groups on the site that this is not the case. Andon Wednesday morning, us-ers who logged on to Facebookwere greeted by a messagesaying that the site is revert-ing toits previousterms ofusepolicies while it resolves theissues raised.

Facebook spelled out, inplain English rather than thelegalese that prompted theprotests, that it doesnt claim

rights to any of your photosor other content. We need alicense in order to help youshare information with yourfriends, but we dont claim toown your information.

Tens of thousands of usersjoined protest groups on Face-book, saying the new termsgrant the site the ability tocontrol their information for-ever.

Facebook backs

off on changein user policies

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