Robin Williams out of rehab and back on big screen

Los Angeles – After spending two months ensconced quietly in an Oregon rehab program, Robin Williams is back making laughs onscreen.

The 55-year-old comedian voices two characters in the animated “Happy Feet” and performs alongside an ensemble cast including Ben Stiller and Dick Van Dyke in the holiday fantasy “Night at the Museum.”

He’s grateful, he said, for the support of family and friends after his relapse into alcoholism earlier in the year, for which he checked into rehab on his own.

“Glad to have done it. Club medicated. Came out, happy to be around,” Williams told The Associated Press in an interview. “Good to have backup.”

In “Night at the Museum,” which opened Friday, Williams plays a wax figure of President Theodore Roosevelt, a role the manic but brainy comedian said was “a wonderful thing.”

Filmmaker Van Sant arrested on drunken driving charge

Portland, Ore. – Filmmaker Gus Van Sant, whose credits include “Finding Forrester” and “Drugstore Cowboy,” has been arrested here on a drunken driving charge, police said.

Sgt. Brian Schmautz, Portland Police Bureau spokesman, said Van Sant, 54, was arrested at 1:48 a.m. Thursday. A breath test showed a blood-alcohol level of 0.19 percent, Schmautz said. That’s more than twice the state limit, 0.08 percent.

An officer saw that the headlights on Van Sant’s vehicle weren’t on, Schmautz said. Van Sant, who lives in Portland, had bloodshot eyes and slurred speech, smelled of alcohol and failed the sobriety tests, Schmautz said.

Calls to his film company were not immediately returned. Van Sant also directed “My Own Private Idaho” and “Good Will Hunting.”

Judge orders paternity test for Anna Nicole Smith’s baby

Los Angeles – Anna Nicole Smith was ordered Thursday to bring her infant daughter to California for paternity tests sought by a former boyfriend who claims he is the father of the child, the man’s publicist said in a statement.

“Los Angeles Superior Court has ruled today that Anna Nicole Smith and 3-month-old baby daughter Dannielynn are ordered to submit to paternity testing,” read the statement from Luck Media & Marketing Inc.

Smith’s ex-boyfriend, Larry Birkhead, welcomed the ruling.

“Christmas has come early, and I thank God that I will soon have the opportunity to prove that I am the father … and eventually hold her in my arms,” Birkhead said.

Smith’s attorney, Ron Rale, would not deny or confirm the ruling.

A Superior Court spokeswoman declined to confirm the order, saying paternity cases are confidential.

Miss Nevada USA fired for racy Internet pictures

New York – Another Miss USA contestant has taken a tumble.

Miss Nevada USA was stripped of her title Thursday after racy photos of her appeared on the Internet, pageant officials said. Some of the photos show Katie Rees, 22, kissing other women, exposing one of her breasts and pulling down her pants to show her thong underwear at a party.

“Katie Rees has been relieved of her duties as Miss Nevada USA 2007,” said Paula M. Shugart, president of the Miss Universe Organization, which owns the Miss USA pageant and others.

Rees’ dismissal comes two days after Miss USA Tara Conner was allowed to keep her tiara when she agreed to go into alcohol rehab and a day after an anti-drunken driving group cut its ties with hard-partying Miss Teen USA Katie Blair.

Rees’ attorney, Mario Torres defended the blonde beauty queen in a statement sent to entertainment TV show “Extra.”

“Katie Rees Miss Nevada USA wants the public to know she was 17 and had a lapse in judgment,” he said. “The actions on that evening in subject are in no way indicative of the person she is or the person she has become. … She is a law-abiding citizen and talented adult. This was an isolated incident that occurred more than five years ago when she was a minor.”