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Phoenix Confronts Spectator At Show

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The Tampa Tribune

Published: March 13, 2009

Joaquin Phoenix appears to be getting into the act of being a petulant hip-hop star.

He jumped off the stage during a short performance in Miami Beach early Thursday morning and confronted an audience member who was heckling him. Security guards dragged him back onstage and escorted him away.

It's unknown whether the confrontation - and his pledge to quit acting and start rapping - was real or a put-on, but actor Casey Affleck recorded the performance on camera.

Phoenix came onstage before 2 a.m. and began rapping to a beat played by the disc jockey and nodding to the music, although most of the lyrics were unintelligible. Then he responded to someone who appeared to be heckling him from the crowd near the stage.

"We have a double-expletive in the audience," he said before jumping into the crowd. It was not clear whether the two men exchanged blows.

Smith's Boyfriend, Doctors Charged

Anna Nicole Smith's former boyfriend and two doctors have been charged with conspiracy to furnish drugs to the former Playboy playmate before she died of an overdose in 2007.

Prosecutors say Smith's former boyfriend and attorney, Howard K. Stern, and doctors Sandeep Kapoor and Khristine Eroshevich were charged Thursday with three felony counts of conspiracy in Los Angeles Superior Court.
Los Angeles County district attorney spokeswoman Sandi Gibbons says the three also were charged with other felonies including obtaining fraudulent prescriptions and unlawfully prescribing a controlled substance from June 2004 through January 2007, two weeks before Smith's death.

Deal Reached Over Cyrus Fan Club

A Tennessee marketing firm is giving nearly 1,000 fans of pop singer Miley Cyrus free four-month extensions to their online fan club memberships in a deceptive-practices settlement with the Pennsylvania attorney general's office.

Hundreds of Pennsylvanians complained to the attorney general when they couldn't buy tickets during fan club pre-sales for Hannah Montana concerts in December 2007 and January 2008.

The pre-sales were advertised as a perk of joining Cyrus' Mileyworld.com Web site for a $29.95 yearly membership fee.

Today's Birthdays

Actor William H. Macy is 59. Actress Dana Delany is 53. Rock musician Adam Clayton (U2) is 49. Actress Annabeth Gish is 38. Rapper-actor Common is 37. Actor Danny Masterson is 33.

Source: The Associated Press

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