Schwarzenegger injured while exercising

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Schwarzenegger injured

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, 61, pulled out of an environmental conference Saturday in South Lake Tahoe, Calif., to have his knee examined after injuring himself while exercising. He had been scheduled to co-host a climate-change summit, but Sen. Dianne Feinstein told the crowd Saturday that Schwarzenegger had called her to say he couldn't make it. Schwarzenegger tore cartilage in his knee several weeks ago while working out, a spokesman said, and it had been bothering him.

Stallone gets vodka deal

Sylvester Stallone has signed a deal to shill for a brand of Russian vodka called Russian Ice for an estimated $1 million. "The advertising-campaign concept was based on the fact that the actor has ... roots" in what used to be Soviet territory, the drink company Synergy said, referring to Sly's great-grandma Rosa Rabinovich, from the Ukrainian town of Odessa.

Leto, his band sued

Fans of 30 Seconds to Mars aren't the only ones who want more of the band's music. Virgin Records has sued the group for $30 million, saying it has failed to deliver. Virgin Records sued the band and front man Jared Leto in Los Angeles on Friday, claiming they refused to deliver three albums as required by its contract. The band's last album, "A Beautiful Lie," was released in 2005. A publicist for Leto did not return a message. Despite the absence of a new album, the band's "From Yesterday" was deemed one of 2007's Top 10 "Hot Modern Rock Songs" by Billboard magazine.

Car talk

Bond in a Ford?

James Bond, who has been known to tool around the world in Aston Martins and BMWs, is reportedly trading down. Way down. As part of a three-movie deal Ford made with Bond producers in '02, the next 007 flick, "Quantum of Solace" may find star Daniel Craig cramming himself into a Ford Ka. To be precise, the car will belong to 007 girl Olga Kurylenko. Ford won't say whether Craig will get in.

Today in History

1863: Federal batteries and ships began bombarding South Carolina's Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor during the Civil War, but the Confederates managed to hold on despite several days of pounding.

1915: A mob in Cobb County, Ga., lynched Jewish businessman Leo Frank, whose death sentence for the murder of Mary Phagan, 13, had been commuted to life imprisonment. (Frank was pardoned by Georgia in 1986.)

1948: Former State Department official Alger Hiss faced his chief accuser, Whittaker Chambers, during a closed-door meeting in New York of the House Un-American Activities Committee and repeated his denial that he'd ever been a Communist agent.

1969: 256 people were killed as Hurricane Camille slammed into the Gulf Coast.

1998: President Clinton gave grand-jury testimony via closed-circuit television from the White House concerning his relationship with Monica Lewinsky; he then delivered a TV address in which he denied committing perjury, admitted his relationship with Lewinsky was "wrong" and criticized Kenneth Starr's investigation.

Today's Birthdays

Actress Maureen O'Hara, 88. Actor Robert DeNiro, 65. Singer Belinda Carlisle, 50. Actor Sean Penn, 48. Singer Donnie Wahlberg, 39. Actor Bryton McClure, 22. Actor Brady Corbet, 20.

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