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NAMES & FACES

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A New York judge sentenced the actor to a conditional discharge, the Associated Press reported, which means he must not get arrested for one year. And she slapped him with a $160 court surcharge, which Crowe's lawyer said would be paid immediately. (Well, duh!)

Crowe, 41, could have lost his right to work in the United States and faced seven years of prison time.

The actor became enraged because he couldn't place a call to his wife in Australia. He reached a settlement with the concierge in August for an undisclosed amount.

A Royal Flushed With Disgust

Waxworks, schmaxworks.

Prince Charles is taking on Fleet Street. His office said yesterday he is suing the Mail on Sunday for printing excerpts from private journals.

The Prince of Wales took the action "reluctantly" after the tabloid published details of the 56-year-old prince's opinion of the British handover of Hong Kong to China in 1997, according to British reports. His comments included one describing Chinese diplomats as "appalling old waxworks" and another deriding "the awful Soviet-style display" of goose-stepping Chinese soldiers during the handover ceremony.

The timing was bad, coming as it did right before last week's state visit by the Chinese president, Hu Jintao .

Hey, Charles -- maybe you should consider putting a lock on that thing.

-- Korin Miller

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