Cops: Drunk hits 'Speed' star, husband

GLOUCESTER, Mass. -- Sandra Bullock and her husband were unhurt after a head-on crash with a drunken driver, police said Saturday.

The actress and her husband, Jesse James of TV's "Monster Garage," were being driven in a sport utility vehicle Friday night when a station wagon crossed the center line and hit them, said Gloucester police Lt. Jerry Cook.

Both vehicles were totaled, but no one was hurt. The vehicles were traveling 15 to 20 mph, Cook said.

The other car was driven by Lucille Gatchell, who registered a blood-alcohol level of 0.20 percent, more than twice the legal limit of 0.08 percent, Cook said.

She was held by Gloucester police overnight and released Saturday on personal recognizance. She is to be arraigned Tuesday in Gloucester District Court.

Gatchell did not immediately return a call seeking comment Saturday. Calls to representatives for Bullock were not immediately returned.

Bullock, 43, was "gracious" and concerned about whether Gatchell was OK, Cook said.

The actress, who starred in such films as "Speed" and "Miss Congeniality," is in Massachusetts filming the romantic comedy "The Proposal."

LOS ANGELES -- It's been more than a year since Quincy Jones was tapped to serve as a culture and art consultant for the 2008 summer Olympic games in Beijing. But instead of artistic planning, he's been focused on human rights.

"I don't pretend to be a politician," the music impresario and longtime humanitarian told The Associated Press. "I'm just a musician who cares."

Jones, 75, has met with the Chinese ambassador to the United Nations and was scheduled to address a group of Chinese-American business and cultural leaders in Los Angeles Saturday to discuss his position on China's role in the Darfur crisis.

China has faced protests from various human-rights groups for its mistreatment of Tibetans and for providing weapons and economic support to Sudan's war-torn Darfur region. Steven Spielberg, who was also named as an Olympic culture and art consultant, abandoned the role in February in protest of China's role in the Darfur conflict. World leaders have also threatened to boycott the Olympics' opening ceremonies because of China's human-rights violations.

But Jones remains committed.

"It's not my intention to withdraw from the Olympics," he was to say in his speech. "I care too much about Darfur and China and if I can stay in the game with others like us, I feel we can make a difference."

Jones hopes to have a role in assembling an ad-hoc committee to "go to Khartoum to sit down and try to get something done," he said. "The whole world has got to start taking responsibility for each other. With communication, you can no longer afford the luxury of thinking of national kinds of issues. Everything that's done anywhere is a world issue, and together there's lots of things we can do that nobody can do alone."

China can become "a hero in the eyes of the world" by sending United Nations African peace enforcers to the Darfur region, stopping arms imports to the area and calling on Khartoum to force the Janajaweed militia to cease its attacks on civilians, Jones said.

But the problems in the area aren't solely China's responsibility.

"Not one country is perfect enough to throw stones at anybody," he said. "None. Especially not us."

Jones said he is less focused on China's role in Tibetan violence because it "is a difficult one to solve in three months. There's so much history behind it. But Sudan is happening every day. We're talking about babies dying in Darfur, so that one has got me personally."

He expects to see a tangible change before the Aug. 8 opening ceremonies.

"What I hope will happen is that we can at least alleviate some of the complexities involved in one of the two big dilemmas," he said.

Jones has no hard feelings against Spielberg for dropping out of his Olympic role, he said: "That's his God-given right," Jones said.

China is bold for inserting itself into the public eye, Jones said.

"China's leadership took on the challenge of the Beijing Olympics knowing that the spotlight and focus would be on them, warts and all," he said. "Because the spotlight is on them, they now have the chance to show leadership and wisdom to change the world for the better."

Apart from Jones' humanitarian efforts and his work on the Olympics opening and closing ceremonies, he is preparing to score nine films and produce three albums, including those by Snoop Dogg, Stevie Wonder and Joe Pesci. And he shows no signs of slowing down.

"This part is the most rewarding part of my life now," he said. "Just being involved in different ways to help kids and help people get out of whatever it is, because I come from that."

A photographer who said he worried he would be killed when Zsa Zsa Gabor's husband punched him in the face on a Beverly Hills street was awarded $4,510 in damages Friday. The eccentric hubby, Frederic Von Anhalt, said he initially wanted to give the man much more for busting open his lip. In his complaint, Dirk Smeten claimed Von Anhalt, 62, angrily approached and began punching him while Smeten tried to photograph him in May 2005. The blows caused Smeten to fall to the sidewalk, according to the complaint. Smeten claimed he suffered lip lacerations, cuts to his face, swelling, pain, high blood pressure, headaches and stress symptoms. Smeten was seeking $137,000 in damages. Von Anhalt said he wanted to settle the case, and had offered Smeten $20,000. "I knew I had to pay something. His lip was bleeding. The bleeding lip was probably when I pushed the camera in his face," Von Anhalt said.

Family and fans greeted Foxy Brown on Friday outside Rikers Island in New York as she was released from the jail after serving an eight-month sentence. "The first place I want to go is church. I've got to get on my knees," said Brown. Instead, Brown went shopping in Harlem, had some soul food and was driven to her childhood home in Brooklyn in a white Rolls Royce Phantom. Her mother, Judith Marchand, presented her with smiley-face balloons and the two hugged outside the family's home in the Prospect Heights neighborhood. A VH1 crew captured the reunion for an upcoming reality show. "I did almost a year in prison, a year in prison, just because my name is Foxy Brown," she said. Brown, whose real name is Ingrid Marchand, was sentenced in September 2007 to a year in jail for violating the terms of her probation after she was accused of hitting a woman with a cell phone. She was on probation for an August 2004 attack on two manicurists at a Manhattan nail salon. She pleaded guilty to misdemeanor assault in the 2004 incident.

Drew Lachey has traded in his dancing shoes for a racing helmet. The second-season "Dancing with the Stars" champion and former member of the pop group 98 Degrees qualified Friday for the Toyota Pro/Celebrity Race, a 10-lap charity race that is part of 34th annual Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach. "This is very different than 'Dancing with the Stars,' " Lachey told The Associated Press before his run. "The only way it's similar is that you have a very short window to try to perfect an art form." Lachey will compete against celebrities including William Fichtner from "Prison Break" and Wilmer Valderrama from "That '70s Show" in race-modified Scion tCs on a 1.97-mile, 11-turn circuit through the downtown streets of Long Beach, Calif. "You get to race very fast and legally," Lachey said. "That was one of the big draws for me to do this." The other was charity. The race benefits the Miller Children's Hospital and Children's Hospital of Orange County. The celebrity winner will also receive a $20,000 donation to the charity of their choice.

Spanish pop singer Enrique Iglesias says he has tried repeatedly to convince his girlfriend, Anna Kournikova, to marry him -- with no luck. Iglesias spoke to reporters Friday after arriving in the Dominican Republic for the first of nine concerts planned across Latin America. Iglesias says he's been involved with the tennis star for at least three years and says she keeps ignoring his appeals to wed. In his words, "I always try, but she pays me no attention." The Madrid-born artist is the son of crooner Julio Iglesias.

A New York judge ordered CNN reporter Richard Quest to undergo six months of counseling Friday after Quest was arrested in Central Park for possession of a controlled substance, his lawyer said. The British reporter is known for his boisterous and quirky style, especially on CNN International. He was arrested at 3:40 a.m. Friday in New York's Central Park for being in the park after a 1 a.m. curfew. Police discovered a plastic bag containing what was believed to be methamphetamine in his pocket, police spokesman John Grimphel said. Quest, 46, later appeared before State Court Judge Anthony Ferrara, who told him the case would be dismissed if he attends counseling, Quest's lawyer, Alan Abramson, said. "Mr. Quest did not realize that the park had a curfew and was returning to his hotel with friends. The matter is scheduled to be dismissed," Abramson said. Quest is a well-known business news reporter on CNN International and hosts "CNN Business Traveler," as well as his own feature program, "Quest."