Model misbehavior
Fashion model Beverly Peele has been charged with identity theft for allegedly buying about $10,000 worth of housewares, appliances and furniture with someone else's credit-card numbers.
Peele, who has been featured in magazine ads and appeared in the movie "Sweet Friggin' Daisies" and a George Michael music video, was arrested Dec. 26 and charged with two counts of grand theft by access card, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said Friday.
The complaint alleges that Peele charged furniture, a refrigerator, a washer and dryer, bedding and other items for her home on credit cards that were in a wallet she found in a market. Investigators said she returned the wallet to the owner, but first apparently copied the numbers on the charge cards. Peele, 30, has a court hearing this week.
Show Me extras
Residents of Cape Girardeau, Mo., are getting a chance to appear in a movie starring Diane Lane, Johnny Knoxville and Mickey Rourke.
A four-day shooting schedule will begin Jan. 9 in the Mississippi River town for the movie "Killshot," based on a novel by Elmore Leonard.
It's about a couple who enter the federal-witness protection program and are sent to Cape Girardeau.
About 100 to 150 residents will be hired as extras for scenes of historic downtown streets and spots along the Mississippi.
Funny's hard
Emily Mortimer said her role in "The Pink Panther" was harder to play than the happy character in the dark drama "Match Point."
"Pink Panther was much more scary," Mortimer tells Time magazine for its Jan. 9 issue. "To tell a joke that no one laughs at in a movie is so potentially embarrassing on a kind of international platform."
Mortimer said she would quit smoking for New Year's after an incident in a Mommy and Me class. "Sam, my son, got a pack of Marlboro Lights out of my handbag and was carrying them through the class. Had he been carrying a small shotgun, it would have been less shocking," she said. *
