Faye Dunaway to fight eviction from New York apartment

Actress Faye Dunaway plans to fight a lawsuit aiming to evict her from her rent-controlled apartment in New York, her attorney said on Thursday.

Dunaway's landlord filed a complaint on August 2 seeking to evict her from the apartment on East 78th Street, alleging it is not her primary residence.

A hearing scheduled for Thursday before Judge John Stanley in New York City Civil Court was adjourned. Instead, Dunaway's lawyer Elizabeth Shollenberger met with the landlord's attorney, Craig Charie of Rosenberg & Estis, in an effort to resolve the matter.

"We didn't come to a settlement today," Shollenberger said afterwards. The parties will return to court October 4. Dunaway, 70, is in California, and was not present.

Dunaway first signed a lease for the one-bedroom apartment in 1994, and her rent is $1,048.72 a month. In court papers, Henry Moses of 7 of 8 Realty Co. claimed Dunaway maintains a home in West Hollywood, California, where she is registered to vote and has a driver's license.

Shollenberger told a crowd of reporters that the actress calls New York her home, and she is not voluntarily leaving the apartment.

"She has not moved out," the veteran housing lawyer said, contradicting what Dunaway said in a phone interview on August 3, when she said she left the apartment in May.

Dunaway has expressed concern about the condition of the apartment, Shollenberger said.

"There's water damage in the apartment that she said she's been complaining about for years," the attorney said. "For someone who is an older person, having water damage leads to all kinds of mold problems, respiratory problems."

Dunaway will be able to keep the apartment and continue to pay rent while the case is pending, Shollenberger said.

Faye Dunaway to fight eviction from New York apartment

Actress Faye Dunaway plans to fight a lawsuit aiming to evict her from her rent-controlled apartment in New York, her attorney said on Thursday.

Dunaway's landlord filed a complaint on August 2 seeking to evict her from the apartment on East 78th Street, alleging it is not her primary residence.

A hearing scheduled for Thursday before Judge John Stanley in New York City Civil Court was adjourned. Instead, Dunaway's lawyer Elizabeth Shollenberger met with the landlord's attorney, Craig Charie of Rosenberg & Estis, in an effort to resolve the matter.

"We didn't come to a settlement today," Shollenberger said afterwards. The parties will return to court October 4. Dunaway, 70, is in California, and was not present.

Dunaway first signed a lease for the one-bedroom apartment in 1994, and her rent is $1,048.72 a month. In court papers, Henry Moses of 7 of 8 Realty Co. claimed Dunaway maintains a home in West Hollywood, California, where she is registered to vote and has a driver's license.

Shollenberger told a crowd of reporters that the actress calls New York her home, and she is not voluntarily leaving the apartment.

"She has not moved out," the veteran housing lawyer said, contradicting what Dunaway said in a phone interview on August 3, when she said she left the apartment in May.

Dunaway has expressed concern about the condition of the apartment, Shollenberger said.

"There's water damage in the apartment that she said she's been complaining about for years," the attorney said. "For someone who is an older person, having water damage leads to all kinds of mold problems, respiratory problems."

Dunaway will be able to keep the apartment and continue to pay rent while the case is pending, Shollenberger said.

1st woman to command Royal Navy battleship

An officer on track to be the first female commander in the British Navy is also on track to be the first woman to command a warship, officials said Monday.

The Admiralty announced Lt. Commander Sarah West is to take command of the frigate HMS Portland in April 2012, The Guardian reported. She is scheduled to be promoted to commander at the end of the year.

West, who studied mathematics at the University of Hertfordshire and also has a law degree, joined the Royal Navy in 1995, five years after its ranks were open to women. She has commanded smaller vessels, participated in the evacuation of British citizens from Lebanon in 2006 and has been involved in naval planning in Iraq.

As commander of the Portland, West will be responsible for a crew of 185 and a vessel with more firepower than the entire fleet Admiral Horatio Nelson took into action at the Battle of Trafalgar.

Women remain barred from a few naval positions, including the Royal Marine Commandos and submarine crews. About 15 percent to 20 percent of most ship's crews are now women.

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Priestley to guest star on 'Haven'

Canadian-born actor Jason Priestley is to guest star in four episodes of the science-fiction series "Haven," Syfy said Monday.

The former "Beverly Hills, 90210" actor also stars in, directs and is a producer on the dark comedy "Call Me Fitz."

He is to appear in the installments of "Haven" scheduled to air Aug. 5, Aug. 12, Aug. 19 and Sept. 9.

He is to direct the Sept. 9 program, as well.

"'In Haven,' Priestley plays Chris Weekly, a handsome but anti-social marine biologist who is forced to deal with an affliction most would consider a blessing -- everyone suddenly loves him and will do anything he wants. Only Audrey Parker [played by Emily Rose] seems unaffected by Weekly's 'charms,'" Syfy said in a synops

Miley Cyrus hacker admits computer fraud

A young Tennessee man who admitted hacking into Miley Cyrus's e-mail has pleaded guilty to computer fraud charges.

Josh Holly, 21, faces up to 13 years in federal prison and large fines when he is sentenced, The Nashville Tennessean reported. Sentencing is scheduled for October.

At a hearing Monday, Holly admitted possession of 200 stolen credit card numbers, pleading guilty to access device fraud, and hacking into celebrity MySpace sites so that visitors would receive spam. A site selling cellphone ring tones allegedly paid him more than $100,000 for his services.

Holly was charged with those offenses after he posted racy pictures of Cyrus on the Internet, saying he obtained them by hacking into her MySpace and gmail accounts. The FBI searched his computer, although he was never charged in connection with the Cyrus hacking.

U.S. District Judge Aleta Trauger scolded Holly for going online when one of the conditions of his bail is staying off the Internet. He agreed when the judge suggested he is an Internet addict.

"You just let all your friends know you have no access to the Internet," Trauger said. "This is all for your own good anyway."

Senate puts off debt vote until Sunday

The U.S. Senate late Saturday put off a scheduled vote on a plan by Majority Leader Harry Reid to increase the federal debt limit.

The vote had been scheduled for 1 a.m. EDT Sunday but the Senate decided just after 10 p.m. Saturday to delay the vote until 1 p.m. Sunday. The House voted 246-173 Saturday to reject Reid's plan, before the Senate had even voted on it.

Speaking at a joint news conference after the House vote, Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., told reporters they had been in touch with the White House and optimistic a debt deal will be reached before the Aug. 2 deadline set by the Treasury Department.

"The only thing standing in the way of the House proposal over in the Senate is the president and Senator Reid," Boehner said. "It's time for them to tell us what they're for, time to tell us how they're going to get us out of the cul-de-sac they've driven our country into."

"We know the Reid proposal will not pass the Senate," McConnell said. "We know it will not pass the House. My view is we ought to end that charade and get serious."

McConnell said he had spoken with Vice President Joe Biden and President Barack Obama within the previous hour, adding, "I'm confident and optimistic that we're going to get an agreement in the very near future."

However, Reid said on the Senate floor McConnell's observation was wrong, The Hill reported.

"The speaker and Republican leader should know that merely saying you have an agreement in front of television cameras doesn't make it so," Reid said.

"I'm more optimistic than my friend," McConnell said in response to Reid. "We both talked to the president today … we've got a chance of getting there."

Shortly before the House vote, the White House Office of Management and Budget released a statement saying the Obama administration "strongly supports" Reid's measure, which would raise the federal debt ceiling until after the next election.

After the vote, Obama called Reid and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., to the White House to discuss the next steps in the debt-limit debate.

Reid said after the White House meeting no agreement had been reached. The White House said the meeting ended at 5:05 p.m. EDT but had no other information about it, The Hill reported.

Earlier Saturday, McConnell sent a letter to Reid signed by 43 GOP senators indicating they oppose Reid's plan.

"We are writing to let you know that we will not vote for your $2.4 trillion debt limit amendment which, if enacted, would result in the single largest debt ceiling increase in the history of the United States," the letter states. "In addition to this unprecedented increase in borrowing authority, your amendment completely fails to address our current fiscal imbalance and lacks any serious effort to ensure that any subsequent spending cuts are enacted."

Obama is open to extending the country's Tuesday debt default date if Republicans show willingness to compromise, The Hill reported Saturday.

Unidentified Democratic sources told the Washington newspaper there had been little communication between the Republican-majority House of Representatives and the White House Friday night as the clock wound down to a financial default Tuesday.

Obama was willing to use executive authority to briefly extend the debt-ceiling deadline if he saw progress in the partisan stalemate, the newspaper said.

Boehner has taken a hard-line approach at capping the U.S. debt, cutting government spending and enacting legislation forcing a balanced budget.

In the Democratic-led Senate, Reid was reported to be working on legislation Saturday that could pass in the House.

Since winning the House majority last year, Republicans have focused on the country's $14 trillion debt and unemployment that's risen to 9.2 percent.