Jessica Alba and Cash Warren now engaged

Los Angeles – Pregnancy has been an engaging experience for Jessica Alba.

The 26-year-old actress, who announced earlier this month that she’s expecting, is now engaged to her boyfriend and the baby’s father, producer Cash Warren.

“I can confirm that they are engaged,” Alba’s publicist, Brad Cafarelli, said in an e-mail to The Associated Press on Thursday.

The couple is expecting their first child in late spring or early summer, Cafarelli said.

Alba stars in the thriller “Awake,” and recently appeared in “Good Luck Chuck” and “The Ten.” The sex symbol first gained fame as an action star on TV’s “Dark Angel,” then in films including “Fantastic Four” and “Sin City.”

Winehouse summoned for earlier conviction

Oslo, Norway – Amy Winehouse has been summoned to appear in court in Bergen after appealing her fine for marijuana possession.

“I can confirm that she must appear in court,” Bergen police spokeswoman Liv Karlsen said Thursday. “If one appeals a conviction, it’s the rule that one has to appear in person, so this is not surprising.”

The 24-year-old British singer-songwriter and her husband, Blake Fielder-Civil, were arrested in Bergen on Oct. 18 and held overnight on charges of illegal drug possession.

They were released the next day after paying fines of $715 each on charges of possessing about 1/4-ounce of marijuana, and continued on a European tour.

Winehouse later claimed she had been tricked into signing the charges and didn’t know what she had put her signature to. Police say they are sure she knew, and that fluent English speakers helped her.

The singer’s attorney has said that a conviction and a fine could damage her career by making it more difficult for her to enter the U.S.

Mischa Barton arrested for DUI, pot investigation

West Hollywood, Calif. – Mischa Barton was arrested Thursday morning for investigation of driving under the influence of alcohol and possessing marijuana after sheriff’s deputies saw her car straddling two lanes of traffic.

The 21-year-old actress, who starred on Fox’s teen drama “The O.C.,” was driving on La Cienega Boulevard in West Hollywood when she was stopped about 2:45 a.m., authorities said.

Deputies saw her vehicle straddling the lanes and failing to signal for a turn, according to a sheriff’s statement.

“During Ms. Barton’s detention, it was determined that she was an unlicensed driver and was driving while under the influence of an alcoholic beverage,” the statement said.

Barton was arrested for investigation of driving under the influence of alcohol, driving without a license, possessing a controlled substance and possessing marijuana, according to a statement from sheriff’s Sgt. John Hocking.

She spent about seven hours in the West Hollywood jail before being released on $10,000 bail. A court hearing was scheduled for Feb. 28.

Calls to her manager and publicist weren’t immediately returned.

Madonna’s directorial debut to premier in Berlin

Berlin – Madonna’s debut movie as a director will have its world premiere at the annual Berlin film festival in February.

“Filth and Wisdom,” starring Eugene Hutz, Richard E. Grant and Stephen Graham, will screen in the Panorama section, outside the main competition, a festival statement said Thursday.

Organizers didn’t specify whether the 49-year-old singer will come to Berlin to present the movie.

The event, which runs from Feb. 7-17, is the first of the year’s major European film festivals.

Brendan Fraser, wife ending 9-year marriage

Los Angeles – Brendan Fraser and his wife, Afton, are ending their 9-year marriage.

“They continue to maintain a close and caring friendship,” the actor’s publicist, Ina Treciokas, said Wednesday in a statement.

The couple wed in 1998 and have three children.

Fraser, 39, has starred in the “Mummy” films, “Gods and Monsters” and “George of the Jungle.”

Judge tells Connery, neighbors: Get along

New York – The legal dispute between Sean Connery and his downstairs neighbors has a fed-up judge telling both sides to cool it.

In court papers, Burton Sultan calls his neighbor Connery, 77, the antithesis of the suave secret agent he played in numerous James Bond films, branding him “a bully who ignores norms of neighborliness and decency” in the town house they share.

Connery and his wife claim the Sultan family’s complaints have delayed needed repairs to the roof, imperiling the Connerys and raising the repair costs.

In a decision made public Wednesday, State Supreme Court Justice Marcy Friedman tossed out many of the Sultans’ claims but slammed the Connerys for what she called their “blunderbuss” legal salvos.

She barred both sides from filing any more lawsuits without her permission, saying they “have engaged in a ‘slash and burn’ litigation strategy.”

Connery’s attorney and publicist and Sultan’s attorney did not immediately return telephone messages Thursday.