Downey's Brief Jail Break
Actor Robert Downey Jr., serving six months for violating probation on drug
and weapons charges, was allowed out of jail Tuesday for a day's filming at
Paramount studios, a Los Angeles TV station has reported. KNBC cited a jail
spokesman as saying the Oscar-nominee (for "Chaplin") was accompanied to
the movie set by two deputies and a supervisor. Due to be released next
month, Downey, 32, is being investigated for his part in a jailhouse brawl
last week which necessitated his being treated for a cut over the nose.
Oprah Case: Less of a Beef
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U.S. District Judge Mary Lou Robinson Tuesday threw out part of the lawsuit
brought against Oprah Winfrey by Texas cattlemen. Judge Robinson ruled that
the suit, now in its fifth week of trial, would no longer be heard under a
so-called "veggie libel" law that forbids the false disparagement of
agricultural products. Robinson said the case would continue as a "common
law disparagement" suit in which the plaintiffs would have to prove malice
on the part of the defendants. The suit charges that Winfrey cost the
plaintiffs at least $10 million because the mad cow show misled viewers
into thinking that U.S. beef was unsafe, which triggered a price drop.