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12 August 2008 8:55 AM, PDT | From PEOPLE.com | See recent PEOPLE.com news

Shelley Malil, an actor who played one of Steve Carell's co-workers in The 40-Year-Old Virgin, has been arrested for investigation of attempted murder after his former girlfriend was critically injured when she was stabbed more than 20 times, authorities said Tuesday. Malil, 43, was arrested Monday in Oceanside, Calif., after disembarking from a train from Los Angeles, Lt. Phil Brust of the San Diego County Sheriff's Department said in a statement, the Associated Press reports. The actor had gone to the beach city to meet his attorney, who along with family and friends had persuaded him to surrender to authorities, police said.

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25 March 2008 9:55 AM, PDT | From PEOPLE.com | See recent PEOPLE.com news

Garcelle Beauvais-Nilon welcomed twin boys in October – and now the Haiti-born actress, 44, is showing them off in the March 31 issue of Jet magazine. "We're so in love with them," the former Nypd Blue cast member told People about sons Jax and Jaid. (Dad is Garcelle's husband since 2001, Mike Nilon.) "The boys are just gorgeous." As is mom, who tells Jet about her decision – in her 40s – to pose nude for last August's Playboy: "I wasn't doing this for anyone other than to prove I could do it." – Brian Orloff Like this story? Click on the Yahoo Buzz! button below to Buzz it up!

7 March 2008 4:10 AM, PST | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Latest: Actor Esai Morales has been cleared of rape accusations by his ex-girlfriend, after a district attorney found no grounds on which to convict him.

Elizabeth Mazzocchi, 33, initially accused the former Nypd Blue star of sexual misconduct in August and re-accused him of rape during a press conference in December, claiming other women had approached her with similar charges against Morales.

But authorities were sceptical of her claims because she had lived with Morales for 15 months following the alleged assault, reports New York gossip column PageSix.

Richard Charnley, Morales' lawyer, says, "There were never any charges filed against Mr. Morales due to insufficient evidence.

"There was an inquiry because the Da (district attorney) has to look at every claim, but my client was never charged with a crime, never arrested, never interviewed by police."

Mazzocchi's current lawyer, Nader Pakfar, says, "A civil case will continue in order to gather more evidence. Just because he's not being charged at this point doesn't mean if an admission comes tomorrow, they won't charge him."

In the state of California, it is illegal to file a false police report, but it is unclear yet if Mazzocchi will be charged with a crime.

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25 February 2008 10:26 AM, PST | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

The Parents Television Council, which has been responsible for generating most of the complaints about alleged indecency on network television, has filed a complaint with the FCC against NBC and its stations regarding a Feb. 15 episode of Las Vegas. The episode featured women running naked in a casino with "their buttocks ... visible." In a statement, Ptc President Tim Winter observed that the commission's decision to fine ABC last month for an episode of Nypd Blue that showed a woman's buttocks "didn't deter NBC from airing barely obscured female nudity during a primetime airing of Las Vegas." (The show aired in the safe-harbor time period of 10:00 p.m. in most of the country but at 9:00 p.m. in the Midwest -- as did the episode of Nypd Blue.)

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29 January 2008 | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

Since the FCC fined ABC $1.43 million for showing an actress's naked backside on an episode of NYPD Blue five years ago, the scene, which the FCC branded "indecent," has been been posted on YouTube, where it has been viewed nearly 1.3 million times in less than two days. Links to the video (at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnsxFvCaZJ8) have been posted on numerous websites, which also carried numerous comments denouncing the FCC action. The British tech site The Register commented, "The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has encouraged children to watch naked women on YouTube." The U.S. tech site Tech Dirt remarked similarly that if FCC Chairman Kevin Martin "really was trying to protect people from viewing such indecent content, perhaps he shouldn't have issued this fine. After all, it was shown on TV nearly five years ago. By now, most people would have forgotten about it... unless, of course, the FCC were to bring the clip back into the news, getting someone to put it on YouTube, and driving well over a million viewers to watch the video since the fine was announced." The FCC said that it had received thousands of complaints about the show; however, virtually all complaints about such content are usually generated by a single organization, Brent Bozell's Parents Television Council.

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28 January 2008 | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

A scene in a 2003 episode of NYPD Blue in which an actress's bare backside was visible could subject ABC to a $1.43-million fine. In its notice to the network, the FCC said that the program, which aired at 9:00 p.m. in the Central and Mountain time zones, violated the commission's rules against airing indecent programming between the hours of 6:00 a.m. and 10:00 p.m. when children are likely to be watching. "We find that the programming at issue is within the scope of our indecency definition because it depicts sexual organs and excretory organs -- specifically an adult woman's buttocks," the FCC said on Friday. "Although ABC argues, without citing any authority, that the buttocks are not a sexual organ, we reject this argument, which runs counter to both case law and common sense." ABC said immediately that it would appeal the ruling, saying that when the episode was broadcast, NYPD Blue "had been on the air for a decade and the realistic nature of its storylines was well known to the viewing public." Moreover, it said, the program was also broadcast with parental warnings and was "V-chip enabled." Dennis Franz, whose own backside was shown on an NYPD Blue episode in the series' second season, told the Hollywood Today website, "I loved the way they approached it. A little embarrassing to watch it with my daughter, but nevertheless it was one of the most memorable things on the show."

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28 January 2008 | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

TV network ABC is facing a multi-million dollar fine after it aired an episode of NYPD Blue depicting female nudity. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) reports a show broadcast in 2003 featured "multiple, close-up views" of a lady's rear before the American watershed. The FCC rules "sexual or excretory activities" shown in an "offensive" way prior to 11pm are indecent - however ABC insists the buttocks are not a sexual organ and plan to appeal the ruling. An ABC spokeswoman pointed out the program was broadcast with parental warnings and "the realistic nature of NYPD Blue's storylines was well-known to the viewing public." If found guilty of the indecency charge, the network will have to pay a $1.4 million fine - the second largest indecency fine imposed on a U.S. broadcaster.

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