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Wednesday, December 23, 1998 1:00:14 PM EST
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Milano is one of several celebrities, including Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio, who have filed suits to keep nude photos from appearing in magazines or Web sites
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LOS ANGELES (CNN) -- Actress Alyssa Milano won a $230,000 default judgment in her lawsuit claiming that an Internet site posted nude photos of her. Tuesday's judgment also barred John Lindgren, 21, from posting nude pictures of Milano, and ordered him to pay $8,200 in legal fees.
Milano's name wasn't found late Tuesday on the Web site, which boasts of having 1,000 nude photos of actresses such as Alicia Silverstone and Yasmine Bleeth. The default judgment means Lindgren didn't respond to the lawsuit filed in April. Lindgren could not be reached for comment.
Milano currently stars in the WB show "Charmed." She got her start on the sitcom "Who's the Boss," starring opposite Tony Danza.
NEW YORK (CNN) -- Richard Chamberlain is heading to Broadway. The TV actor who starred in the 1985 miniseries "Shogun" will now sing show tunes in "The Sound of Music."
Chamberlain will replace Dennis Parlato as Capt. von Trapp in the musical, which has been hit hard at the box office in recent weeks. Chamberlain's Broadway run is scheduled to begin on March 9 and run for 17 weeks, at the conclusion of which he'll join a soon-to-be-formed road company for a national tour scheduled for a 40-week run. He is currently shooting "The Doris Duke Story" with Lauren Bacall, a four-hour TV film for CBS.
(CNN) -- Artist Mary Engelbreit, whose cute cartoon drawings and inspiring quotes are seen in more than 1,000 products (calendars, greeting cards, linens, etc.), tells USA Weekend that she loathes recent visions of the new millennium and the future.
"I'm sick to death of the millennium and all the hype," she says. "It's a man-made calendar. Time goes on. But people take it so seriously. Some are afraid of the end of the world. They're building shelters, hoarding food. It's silly."
Engelbreit says even her sons, ages 18 and 15, are drawn to films with ugly visions of the future. "Futuristic movies are so dreary," she says. "I'd like to make a movie where everything is bright and clean. The future could be cute."
Her vision is not surprising, given her career. The 46-year-old artist's trademark drawings feature cute children and quotes like, "To imagine is everything." Annual sales for her empire now top $100 million, which means her future, at least, is bright.
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LOS ANGELES (CNN) -- Actor and National Rifle Association president Charlton Heston says he's sorry for "unloading" on Mike Wallace of "60 Minutes." Heston last week accused Wallace and the CBS news show of "SWAT-team journalism," referring to a profile piece on Heston that was to air on the venerable news show Sunday.
But after watching the show, Heston took back his harsh words. "It's an accurate segment, just as you told me, although my 7-year-old grandson burst into tears at one point, exclaiming, 'Did Ba do something bad?' I'm afraid I did, Mike. I'm sorry," Heston wrote Wallace. "It seems ironic that at this stage of my life I have to be reminded that it's wiser to critique a work after you've seen it." The apology "was a classy thing to do," Wallace said Tuesday.
Reuters Limited contributed to this report.
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