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Posted on: Friday, November 16, 2007

Actor charged in alleged assault

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Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

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Lindsay Lohan

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Kanye West

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Actor Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa was charged Wednesday night with domestic violence after allegedly assaulting his girlfriend at their Diamond Head home, police said.

Tagawa, 57, was arrested by police responding to a 911 call from the Pualei Circle home at 11:35 p.m.

The actor's girlfriend told officers he hit her, but she refused treatment. Police said she had bruises on her legs.

Tagawa was released at 12:45 a.m. yesterday after posting $1,000 bail. He has an appearance scheduled Nov. 29 at District Court.

Tagawa has appeared in NBC's hit "Heroes" and "Balls of Fury." His long list of movies includes "Memoirs of a Geisha," "Pearl Harbor" and "Planet of the Apes."

IN AND OUT OF JAIL IN JUST 84 MINUTES

LOS ANGELES — Lindsay Lohan was a jailbird for just 84 minutes yesterday, becoming the latest celebrity to serve less than a day for a drunken driving offense.

Lohan, 21, turned herself in to the Los Angeles County women's detention center in Lynwood at 10:30 a.m. She was searched, fingerprinted and placed in a holding cell in the inmate reception area but got to keep her street clothes, sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore said.

"She was cooperative," he said.

Lohan was released at 11:54 a.m. Her original daylong sentence was reduced because she met criteria that took into account overcrowding at the lockup and the fact that her crime was nonviolent, Whitmore said.

Did the celebrity receive special treatment?

"Absolutely not. This is what we do for most everybody in this position," Whitmore said.

An e-mailed message seeking comment from Lohan's publicist was not immediately returned.

WILL.I.AM FILLS IN FOR KANYE WEST

NEW YORK — Kanye West has pulled out of a performance at the annual Victoria's Secret fashion show following the death of his mother last weekend.

Gabe Tesoriero, publicist for the 29-year-old rapper, declined further comment.

The show, set to air Dec. 4 on CBS, was taping at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles yesterday. Will.i.am was filling in for West, said Hillary Siskind, publicist for the Black Eyed Peas frontman.

West's mother, Donda West, 58, died Saturday night after undergoing cosmetic surgery in Los Angeles.

An autopsy was conducted, but an official cause of death won't be made for at least 1 1/2 months, pending further tests, the coroner's office has said.

HEFNER PRESENTS $2M GIFT TO USC

LOS ANGELES — Hugh Hefner has donated $2 million to the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts.

The money will fund an exhibition space in the new headquarters of the school and an archival repository for student films and historic documents, the university said.

The existing repository, which bears Hefner's name, holds more than eight decades of student films, including some by George Lucas.

"I've always believed that following one's dreams is very important," Hefner said in a statement from USC.