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After reportedly pleading no contest to stalking and terrorizing actress Brooke Shields, 35, New Jersey accountant Mark Bailey, 41, was sentenced Sept. 5 to probation and twice-weekly counseling and ordered to stay away from the former child star — as well as her family, employees, and agents — for the next decade. Convicted twice before during his 15-year pursuit of Shields, Bailey was arrested Jan. 10 when police found him with a gun in an L.A. office building, carrying letters addressed to Shields ... On Aug. 31, America Hoffman, son of the late '60s activist Abbie, filed suit against Lions Gate Films and producer-director Robert Greenwald over the current Steal This Movie, charging invasion of privacy and unauthorized use of his name and likeness. Hoffman seeks undisclosed damages and a permanent injunction against the film, which the suit claims portrays him as ''a wimpy, quiet, sulking and effeminate 'mama's boy''' and ''falsely implies that [he] may be a homosexual.'' Greenwald says he is surprised by the suit, noting that America had visited the film set. Lions Gate did not return calls for comment.

DEATHS
Blacklisted actress Rose Hobart, 94, best known for playing the ''other woman'' in movies of the '30s and '40s, of undisclosed causes, Aug. 29, in Woodland Hills, Calif. Although Hobart appeared in more than 40 films, including 1945's Conflict opposite Humphrey Bogart, one 1949 appearance proved costly. She was summoned before the House Un-American Activities Committee, though she had denied being a Communist, and declined to name names. She never worked in film again ... Russian ballerina Tatiana Riabouchinska, 83, a star of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo in the '30s who served as the model for the famed dancing hippo in Walt Disney's 1940 Fantasia, of heart failure, Aug. 24, in L.A.

Originally posted Sep 15, 2000 Published in issue #559 Sep 15, 2000 Order article reprints
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