Actor Farina arrested with gun in luggage at LAX

Actor Farina arrested after gun found in luggage at LAX

By Stuart Ramson (AP)

Dennis Farina has been arrested at Los Angeles International Airport after a loaded gun was found in his carry-on luggage.

Police say the 64-year-old actor told them he forgot the .22-caliber handgun was in his luggage Sunday.

Sgt. Dennis Beacham says Farina was caught at a security checkpoint and booked for investigation of carrying a concealed weapon. Bail was set at $25,000.

Messages were left for Farina\'s attorney, Kevin York, and his agent.

Farina has a role in the Ashton Kutcher and Cameron Diaz comedy \"What Happens in Vegas.\" It opened Friday.

He...

Cut-down The First Emperor returns to Met Opera

By Marty Sohl (AP)

Less is more for Tan Dun\'s \"The First Emperor.\"

When the ambitious opera was given its world premiere at the Metropolitan Opera in December 2006, there were many interesting elements, both musically and theatrically. But overall, it was a mixed night, done in by tedious pacing, especially in the first act.

It returned for its first revival of Saturday night, with Placido Domingo again in the title role, and the running time was cut to 2 hours, 50 minutes (including intermission), down a half-hour from the original. The cuts by the Academy Award-winning composer, especially...

Jennie Garth returning to West Beverly for 90210 spinoff

By Evan Agostini (AP)

The wild kids of television\'s West Beverly High will have a guidance counselor familiar with the posh ZIP code\'s dating, drugs and drama.

Jennie Garth will reprise her role as Kelly Taylor and join the cast of CW\'s \"Beverly Hills, 90210\" spinoff.

She won\'t be a regular but will play a guidance counselor at her alma mater, the Hollywood Reporter said in a story published online Saturday.

Garth, 36, departed the Canadian comedy \"My Best Friend\'s Girl\" last month.

New Carter book tells life of remarkable mother

By Paul Drinkwater (AP)

Former President Jimmy Carter often sent his mother to meet with foreign dignitaries and attend state funerals, but it wasn\'t until he started researching a new book about her life that he learned just what the woman known as \"Miss Lillian\" did on those visits.

\"Mama had developed a reputation for expressing unorthodox opinions and not being constrained by any outside advice,\" Carter writes in \"A Remarkable Mother,\" which chronicles Lillian\'s life from her birth in 1898 to her death from cancer in 1983. \"The officials in the State Department were always quite nervous about...

White Soxs Ozzie knows what sells

By Joe Ranze (AP)

White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen knows what sells in the media, what piques interest in baseball and other fields of endeavor. It\'s people who tend to act a little crazy from time to time.

\"Who cares about Britney Spears? But she\'s on TV every day. Why do you think people give a ... about Jose Canseco? That ... sells,\" Guillen said Thursday at the end of a 25-minute pregame meeting with reporters.

Managers who stir it up with their comments _ as Guillen has done most of his managerial career _ or with their on-field tantrums, like Martin and Cubs\' manager Lou Piniella,...