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Arrested for disturbing the peace
Photo by The Associated Press Daytona Beach Police Officer Elizabeth Devlin is charged by a young cow while attempting to coax it out of a yard in the Florida town. The cow was later tranquilized and taken to a local humane society. Officer Devlin was shaken but uninjured. 
Jon Bon Jovi grew to hate how huge his band had become by the summer of 1990, and decided there had to be more to life.
"I hated the machine Bon Jovi had become," he says in next Sunday's Parade magazine. "I call it the `gray summer of drinking and whining.' I wasn't in the gutter, but I was close."
Eventually, wife Dorothea suggested they take a cross-country trip by motorcycle and returned home to Rumson, N.J.
"Slowly, the fog lifted," he recalls. "It was a long, slow healing process. I reassessed the situation. I hired different agents. I manage the band now. Making those decisions -- and time -- brought me out of my funk."
The next year, he began taking acting lessons and since then has made five films.
Two of them -- "Little City" starring Penelope Ann Miller and "Homegrown" starring Billy Bob Thornton -- are scheduled for release this winter.
The Donald and Diana?
Real estate magnate Donald Trump says he regrets never having asked out the late Princess of Wales. He says he was always too busy.
"Do you think you would have seriously had a shot?" NBC's Stone Phillips asks Trump in a "Dateline NBC" interview.
"I think so, yeah," Trump says. "I always have a shot."
Trump also reveals in the interview that he has a germ phobia against shaking hands with strangers, says he deserved his $5 million bonus last year even though his casino business' stock was tumbling and says he has no inclination to take up Ted Turner's philanthropy challenge.
Turner recently pledged $1 billion to the United Nations and wants other rich people to follow his lead. Trump says he will ultimately give a lot to charity, but not quite yet.
"I just don't want to do it now," he says. "I want to do it maybe at an older age. Or death."
Twice divorced, Trump says he would get married again "in a minute" if he found the right woman.
"Business is simple," he says. "This is very complex."
What's Tanya Tucker's dream night out?
"If I could go to any concert, it would be Elvis!" Tucker says in a Q&A with readers of The Arizona Republic. "And I would love to spend an evening with Jesus."
Tucker, whose hits include "Delta Dawn" and "Love Me Like You Used To," was recently in Phoenix for a performance.
Tucker, who grew up in Willcox, Ariz., says she encountered some ill will from her peers when she became a teen-age sensation with "Delta Dawn."
"I don't know if kids were jealous of me, but some were not very nice," she says. "After `Delta Dawn' became a big hit, some of the kids would tease me and sing, `Delta Dawn,' what's that poo I smell on you, could it be you need a bath and shower, too?'
"Needless to say, I didn't feel like a star at school."
PolyGram this week named producer George Jackson as the new president and chief executive of Motown Records.
Jackson most recently was a partner at Elephant Walk Entertainment, a television and music production company. Before that, he co-founded and served as chairman of Jackson-McHenry Entertainment, which produced the films "Krush Groove" and "New Jack City."
Andre Harrell resigned in August from Motown after two years heading the famed music label, which launched such acts as the Supremes, Smokey Robinson and the Jackson Five in the 1960s.
PolyGram acquired Motown in 1993 from Boston Ventures, the company that bought out Motown founder Berry Gordy Jr. in 1988.
Stevie Wonder, Diana Ross and the Temptations are still with Motown, whose roster also includes such newer acts as Boyz II Men and Queen Latifah.
PolyGram's other music labels include A&M, Mercury and Def Jam.
It took fathering 13 children by his two wives and three mistresses to teach Anthony Quinn the value of monogamy.
"I certainly feel that I am a monogamous character, believe it or not, after being married to several wives," the 82-year-old actor said in an interview this week with WPRO-AM in Providence. "I wish in my life that I had only been married once. I really wish it with all my heart."
Quinn, who won Academy Awards as Best Supporting Actor for "Viva Zapata" in 1952 and "Lust for Life" in 1956, settled a rancorous divorce in August with his second wife, Iolande, for an undisclosed sum. It came just hours after his son Danny testified that Quinn abused his wife during their 31-year marriage.
One of his mistresses, Kathy Bevins, is his current wife.
"With Kathy, my present woman, I could live a monogamous existence," he said.
Fuhgeddaboutit, John Gotti's got more talent than Muhammad Ali, Wilt Chamberlain, Clint Eastwood and a whole bunch of other celebrities.
A pencil sketch of a roaring lion head whipped up by the reputed boss of New York's Gambino crime family won the highest bid at an auction of celebrity doodles.
"There is no doubt it was drawn by Gotti. He obviously has some talent," said Ezra Krieg, associate director of the Daily Bread Food Bank, which raised $23,000 for the hungry and homeless during the 7th Annual Celebrity Doodle Art Auction last weekend in Miami Beach.
An unidentified Miami collector made the winning bid for Gotti's drawing, surpassing offers for doodles by Ali, Cher, Eastwood, Chamberlain, Bob Hope, Steve Martin, John Travolta and more than 100 other celebrities.
Gotti was convicted in 1992 and is serving a life sentence for murder and racketeering at a federal prison in Marion, Ill.
Can't get enough of Celine Dion, eh? Hang on, help is coming.
By the time her new album, "Let's Talk About Love," goes on sale Nov. 18, there will be five biographies of the Canadian-born singer on the stands. The only endorsed account is by Georges-Hebert Germain, a family friend.
The three-time Grammy winner whose hits included "Because You Loved Me" said she's ready for the attention, but worries about what might be written about friends.
"I know exactly who I am and what I do and what's true and not true," she said Thursday. "What makes me sad and what hurts me the most is not what people say about me that's not true. It's when they talk about my friends and my family, they put doubts in everybody's mind."
The new album also features Barbra Steisand, the Bee Gees and Luciano Pavarotti.
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