AMAGANSETT, N.Y. - Actor Robert Downey Jr., the Oscar-nominated star of "Chaplin" whose struggles with drug addiction drew attention in the late 1990s, has married producer Susan Levin.
Downey, 40, and Levin, 31, married at a private home in the Hamptons on Saturday, People magazine and the TV news magazine Entertainment Tonight reported.
The two met in 2002 on the set of the film "Gothika," which Levin co-produced. They were engaged in 2003.
The marriage is Downey's second. He and actress Deborah Falconer have an 11-year-old son, Indio.
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TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) - David Smith Sr., who already holds a world record for the longest distance traveled by a human fired from a cannon, now has another feat on his record.
Smith was shot across the U.S.-Mexico border on Saturday, soaring about 150 feet and landing uninjured in a net in San Diego with U.S. Border Patrol agents and an ambulance waiting nearby.
Although it is against the law for anyone, including U.S. citizens, to enter the country outside an official port of entry, Smith Sr. wasn't crossing illegally.
U.S. Border Patrol Chief David Aguilar made an exception for him, said Border Patrol spokesman Kurstan Rosberg. And Smith flashed his U.S. passport as he climbed into the barrel.
Smith, of Half Way, Mo., is listed in Guinness World Records for record distance for a human fired from a cannon. He flew 185 feet, 10 inches on May 29, 1998, in West Mifflin, Penn.
The Smith family has five cannonballs: father, son, two daughters and a cousin.
Saturday's feat was the brainchild of Venezuelan artist Javier Tellez and is part of a series of public art projects in the two border cities.
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LAS VEGAS (AP) - Andre Agassi and Steffi Graf are continuing their doubles play with a financial services company that is promising to support their charitable works.
Genworth Financial said it will debut a third print and television advertisement Monday featuring the husband-and-wife duo, and will announce an extension of the sponsorship agreement through 2007.
The new ad coincides with the start of the U.S. Open in New York. Agassi and Graf first appeared in a Genworth commercial in June 2004.
The company said it will help sponsor the Andre Agassi Charitable Foundation's annual Grand Slam for Children benefit concert in Las Vegas, and will make a contribution to Graf's Children for Tomorrow Foundation, which supports children traumatized by war or violence.
Agassi, a winner of 59 singles titles on the ATP circuit, quit Nike last month and joined Graf as an Adidas endorser. Graf has 107 WTA singles titles.
The couple married in October 2001. They have two children.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Country music singer Mindy McCready is accused of violating her probation on a drug conviction, authorities said.
A spokeswoman for the Pinellas County sheriff's department said McCready was jailed Friday on an arrest warrant issued earlier this month.
According to the warrant, McCready left Tennessee without getting permission from her probation officer and didn't report to the officer during July.
Authorities said it is McCready's second probation violation, which means she cannot post bail this time and likely will have to serve time in jail.
The probation violations stem from charges brought against the singer last year, when she pleaded guilty to fraudulently obtaining the painkiller OxyContin. She was fined $4,000, sentenced to three years of supervised probation and ordered to perform 200 hours of community service.
McCready violated her probation in May when she was charged with driving under the influence in Nashville.
A few days later, McCready's boyfriend, William McKnight, was charged with attempted murder after allegedly breaking into her home and beating her.
McCready was released from a Florida hospital last month after an apparent suicide attempt at an Indian Rocks Beach hotel, authorities said.
The 28-year-old singer had a No. 1 hit in 1996 with "Guys Do It All the Time."
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