– Martin Sheen began his new career Friday — as a college student. Sheen, 66, registered at National University of Ireland, Galway, where he plans to study philosophy, English literature and oceanography as part of a bachelor of arts degree.
– A Muslim leader in Zanzibar, Tanzania, has criticized plans to honor late Queen frontman Freddie Mercury with a huge beach party this weekend. Mercury, who died of AIDS in 1991, violated Islam with his flamboyant lifestyle, said Azan Khalid of Zanzibar’s Association for Islamic Mobilization and Propagation.
– Victor Willis, the original policeman in the ’70s disco band The Village People, plans to enter a treatment program following his no-contest plea to drug possession charges, his publicist said this week. Willis, 54, was arrested in March in South San Francisco after police stopped his car and found cocaine and drug paraphernalia.
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The Personals page was compiled by Cristi Kempf from Tribune news services and staff reports.
