– Vietnamese police will drop a charge of child rape against Gary Glitter because of “lack of evidence,” his lawyer has told the BBC. But the former singer will be formally charged with committing lewd acts with children, Le Thanh Kinh said. Glitter, 61, faces up to 12 years in jail if found guilty. Earlier this month, news agency AFP said Glitter had told police in Vietnam that a girl, 11, had spent the night with him but he denied abusing her.
– Felicity Huffman says she didn’t risk a thing in playing a man becoming a woman in the film “Transamerica.” “I’m not a beauty. That’s not my thing. So it wasn’t like I was risking anything,” Huffman said in Sunday’s San Francisco Chronicle.
– A British schoolgirl credited with saving about 100 tourists at a Thai beach when the tsunami hit last year has been named Child of the Year by a French children’s magazine. The issue of Mon Quotidien that hits newsstands Tuesday features a smiling Tilly Smith on its cover. Smith, 11, had studied tsunamis in geography class and recognized the warning signs that a tsunami was coming when she saw “bubbling on the water … and foam sizzling just like in a frying pan.”
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The Personals page was compiled by Cristi Kempf from Tribune news services and staff reports.
