Gabor moved to star care center

Los Angeles — Zsa Zsa Gabor, who was injured in a traffic accident nearly two months ago, has been moved from a hospital to a luxury suite at the Motion Picture and Television Hospital.

Gabor was moved this week to the hospital that caters to aging stars, her husband, Frederic von Anhalt, said Thursday.

The 85-year-old actress was injured in a Nov. 27 crash in West Hollywood. She was a passenger in the front seat of a car that struck a light pole. Her hairdresser, who was driving, suffered minor injuries.

Darn those donkey-bottom biters

London — Actor-comedian John Cleese told London’s High Court that a British newspaper article suggesting his career flopped when he moved to the United States was offensive and damaging.

Cleese, who is suing The Evening Standard newspaper over the article, earlier rejected a compensation offer of $16,000 from the newspaper because he regarded its published apology as insufficient.

Giving evidence by a video link Thursday from his home in California, the star of the “Monty Python” TV show and movies said he thought the newspaper wasn’t genuinely sorry for the “nasty” article printed April 11, 2001.

“The general tenor of the correspondence over weeks and months was the grudging response of a bully,” Cleese told the court.

A ruling is expected in the next few days.

He fights with expert timing

Taipei, Taiwan — Jackie Chan says he’s sticking with kung-fu movies and doesn’t plan to act in films featuring other martial arts.

“My fans and producers have also dissuaded me” from switching to other martial-arts movies, he said Thursday.

Actors kick and box in kung-fu films and need to be more skillful than in movies where they seem to fly or perform other gravity-defying acts, Chan said.

The Hong Kong native, who last year received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, said kung-fu films have wide appeal.

“Kung-fu films don’t have to be brutal. They are catering to both the young and the old,” the 48-year-old said. “I had great fun dancing and playing in my latest film.”

Aretha disrespects code deadline

Bloomfield Township, Mich. — Aretha Franklin has yet to respond to a notice that her $1.6-million mansion, destroyed by a fire, violates the community’s building code and must be repaired or demolished.

Franklin received a letter dated Jan. 7 informing her she had two weeks to remove debris left from the blaze that destroyed most of her 10,000-square-foot mansion about 15 miles northwest of Detroit.

The Jan. 22 deadline passed this week.

“You take any situation like this on a case-by-case basis and try to be reasonable,” said Kaye Chartier, director of code enforcement.

Authorities have yet to file charges in the Oct. 25 fire. An investigation indicated that an accelerant was used to start the fire in three spots on the first floor.