Actor Charlie Sheen pleaded not guilty on Monday to charges of assaulting his wife, who had previously asked for the case to be dropped.
Sheen, 44, the star of America’s most-watched TV comedy “Two and a Half Men”, entered his plea though his lawyer at a brief court hearing in the ski resort of Aspen.
The court set a July 21 trial date, although Sheen’s wife, Brooke Mueller, has told journalists repeatedly that she would like the case dropped.
Sheen was charged in February with assaulting and threatening Mueller, his third wife, on Dec. 25 during a family vacation in Aspen. Mueller told police Sheen pulled a knife on her and threatened to have her killed when she said she would divorce him. Both had been drinking, according to alcohol tests.
He could face up to three years behind bars if convicted on the charges of felony menacing, misdemeanor assault and criminal mischief. The menacing charge entails the alleged use of a deadly weapon in a threatening manner.
Mueller was not in court with Sheen on Monday but the couple is back together in Los Angeles with their infant twins and attempting to rebuild their two-year-old marriage.
“Charlie looks forward to the trial to clear his name,” Sheen’s publicist Stan Rosenfield told reporters after Monday’s hearing in Aspen.
Production of the CBS show “Two and a Half Men” was halted after Sheen checked into rehab last month for undisclosed reasons. Mueller also spent time in rehab, reportedly for substance abuse.
Executive producer Mark Burg told reporters on Monday that shooting for the four remaining episodes of “Two and a Half Men” this season would resume on Tuesday.

Peter Graves, LOS ANGELES : Peter Graves, the tall, stalwart actor likely best known for his portrayal of Jim Phelps, leader of a gang of special agents who battled evil conspirators in the long-running television series “Mission: Impossible,” died Sunday.

Graves died of an apparent heart attack outside his Los Angeles home, publicist Sandy Brokaw said. He would have been 84 this week.

Graves had just returned from brunch with his wife and kids and collapsed before he made it into the house, Brokaw said. One of his daughters administered CPR but was unable to revive him. Graves’ family doctor visited the house and believed he had a heart attack, Brokaw said.

Although Graves never achieved the stardom his older brother, James Arness, enjoyed as Marshal Matt Dillon on TV’s “Gunsmoke,” he had a number of memorable roles in both films and television.

Normally cast as a hero, he turned in an unforgettable performance early in his career as the treacherous Nazi spy in Billy Wilder’s 1953 prisoner-of-war drama “Stalag 17.”

He also masterfully lampooned his straight-arrow image when he portrayed bumbling airline pilot Clarence Oveur in the 1980 disaster movie spoof “Airplane!

MUMBAI INDIA: Singer Akon got a traditional Indian welcome from Shah Rukh Khan and Kareena Kapoor during a press meet in Mumbai.

The Smack That singer is on a three-day visit to Mumbai to compose and record a song for Shah Rukh’s latest movie Ra. One with composer duo Vishal-Shekar.

The movie is being directed by Anubhav Sinha. In fact, it was Sinha’s idea to rope in Akon for the film, whose title sounds similar to that of Mani Ratnam’s film Raavan starring Abhishek Bachchan and his wife Aishwarya.

When asked about this, Shah Rukh said both the films are extremely different. “Raavan is a modern version of a mythology while ours is a superhero film,” he added.

Shah Rukh did not wanted to discuss the movie as it is in the initial stages. But he did add that, ‘It is a genre that has not been tried before. Red Chillies and my team would like to try and I hope we succeed. I am doing this film for my kids and if you guys have kids, they will like it too,” he said.

Irene Kng, Jack Neo’s wife, Madam Irene Kng, 46, told Zaobao that the whole family has moved out of their Pasir Ris semi-detached home and is staying temporarily at another place, leaving the maid to look after their home. She would not disclose details of her current location.

News of Neo’s affair with a 22-year-old Wendy Chong first broke on Saturday in the Chinese evening daily Lianhe Wanbao after the mistress showed up at Neo’s house on Friday, demanding to see his wife. All three later headed to Changi Airport’s Crowne Plaza Hotel for a talk. The meeting reportedly stretched over four hours. Chong’s father and sister later joined the group, as did Neo’s pastor, church friend and manager.

Since then, reporters have been staking outside Neo’s house, upsetting neighbours who called the police to chase the media pack away.

Madam Kng has remained calm in the face of the scandal, telling Zaobao that the four children will attend school as usual on Monday. ‘This is the ad-ults’ business. The children must carry on with their lives,’ she said.

Foreign Minister George Yeo, who is acquainted with Neo, has also called for support for the film director’s family.

In a blog entry, Mr Yeo revealed that before the affair surfaced in the press, Neo had personally called him to inform him about it. The minister added that Madam Kng was with Neo at the time of the phone call, and he had asked to speak with her.

Mr Yeo also called on the public to be supportive of the Neo family, so that they can get through this difficult period.

Honey i Shrunk The Kids, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids is a 1989 comedy film. The directorial debut of Joe Johnston and released through Walt Disney Pictures and Silver Screen Partners III, the film tells the story of a professor who accidentally shrinks his kids and his neighbor’s kids to 1/4 of an inch with his electro-magnetic shrink ray and sends them out into the backyard with the trash.

Rick Moranis stars as Wayne Szalinski, the professor who accidentally shrinks his children and Marcia Strassman portrays his wife, Diane, the “honey” in the film’s title and the titles of the sequels and Disney park attraction. Matt Frewer and Kristine Sutherland star as the Szalinskis’ neighbors, the Thompsons.

Life is beginning to return back towards normality in Chile and people are coming to terms with reality after the massive earthquake in Chile.
The house of 62-year old Ariel Silva and his wife, 58-year old Rosa Caamano are committed to restart their lives with a new hope and inspiration, although the family did complain that they spent their entire life savings on building their house that demolished during the quake.

Keyshia Cole Gives Birth Breaking news :- The R&B songstress has given birth to her first child.

Keyshia Cole went into labor last night and has finally delivered the baby. While we there is no word of the sex of the baby or the name we do know that both Keyshia Cole and the baby are doing fine. According to Keyshia Cole’s bestfriend forever, Monica:

“Wanted u guys to know I give KC all of your messages & she ALWAYS graciously thanks u. Sending her my love especially tonite. That’s my girl”

Jacob Nodarse, A 23-year-old man who is considered the “prime suspect” in the murder of three family members in Darien was arrested at his parents’ home in southern Florida Wednesday afternoon.

The Chicago Tribune reports that Jacob B. Nodarse was found sleeping in a minivan outside of a home in Lehigh Acres near Fort Myers around 3 p.m. He is being held on an obstruction of justice charge, but police told the Tribune he is a “prime suspect” in the murders of Jeffrey Kramer, 50, his wife Lori, 48, and their son Michael, 20. Murder charges have yet to be filed.

Police in Florida had been on the look-out for Nodarse, after Darien police told them he was driving a blue BMW coupe and had family in Fort Myers and Miami, The Tribune reports.

A motive in the slayings remained unknown Wednesday. Tuesday morning, police responded to the 8900 block of Kilkenny Drive in Darien after the Kramers’ daughter, who was hiding in a closet, called 9-1-1 and said there were shots fired in the home. Police discovered her three family members dead on the scene.

Osmond Family Tragedy, Seventies pop icon DONNY OSMOND has been forced to scrap his Down Under tour after suffering a double family tragedy in the space of just two days. The PUPPY LOVE singer, who was due to tour New Zealand and Australia later this month (MAY06), has cancelled the dates to mourn the death of his mother-in-law and take care of his ailing father. Osmond was still grieving a day after learning his mother-in-law, MARJORIE GLYNN, had lost her battle with cancer on 22 April(06) when his 88-year-old father fell and broke his hip, according to American tabloid the National Enquirer. A family insider tells the publication, “He (Osmond) put everything on hold to spend time with his mother-in-law and to support his wife during her time of need. “The next day Donny’s father GEORGE broke his hip, and was rushed to the hospital. He’s since had two surgeries to help repair the hip.”

Joseph Andrew Stack, Joe Stack: Just a few hours after Joseph Andrew Stack killed himself in an attack on an Austin building that housed local IRS office someone went and set up a fan club for him on Facebook. It already has 124 members.

“Finally an American man took a stand against our tyrannical government that no longer follows the constitution and is turned its back on its founding fathers and the beliefs this country was founded on,” the page explains.

One Stack fan had this to say about the insane Stack manifesto: “This shows that he was in fact, not a deranged man, but a very intelligent one, who understands typical everyday problems that people have with the government. It’s just too bad people are deciding to focus on the fact that he tried to kill his wife and daughter, and not the means of why he did this.”

The fan page also uses the line from Thomas Jefferson that crazy political types, like the guy who brought a gun to a town hall meeting with Barack Obama, just love. “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”