Wolverine, the blade-bearing “X-Men” super hero played by Hugh Jackman, ranks as the top fictional power player, according to Entertainment Weekly. The magazine lists the top 10 franchise characters in its new issue. Following Wolverine, in order, are Harry Potter, Spider-Man, Shrek, Robert Langdon (the main character of “The Da Vinci Code”), Jason Bourne (“The Bourne Identity” and “The Bourne Supremacy”), James Bond, Jigsaw (the villain of the “Saw” horror films), Bart Simpson and Madea (Tyler Perry’s trash-talking grandmother).
A woman is suing Hustler magazine publisher Larry
Flynt and his wife, Elizabeth, alleging their dog “viciously attacked” her as she jogged in front of the couple’s Hollywood Hills home. In court documents filed Thursday in Los Angeles Superior Court, Cynthia Tribull claimed she suffered injuries and “severe shock, fright, humiliation and emotional distress” after being bitten by the schnauzer. Flynt declined to comment, said spokeswoman Kim Dower. The lawsuit accuses the Flynts of failing to restrain their dog or post a warning sign to pedestrians. It claims liability and negligence and seeks an unspecified amount of money for medical bills and other damages.
Joseph R. Gannascoli, who played a closeted gay mobster on HBO’s “The Sopranos,” is being sued by the manufacturer of a diet drug.
The maker of Stacker 2 filed a lawsuit Thursday claiming Gannascoli hasn’t done enough to promote the product after receiving about $316,000 from the company. “He was very difficult to work with all the time,” Robert Occhifinto, president of Sussex County-based dietary supplement maker NVE Pharmaceuticals, told The Star-Ledger of Newark for Friday’s newspapers. Gannascoli, 47, disputed the company’s claim.
