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Prince Charles digs that crazy rhythm

LONDON, England -- Just call him Prince Moby, or the Prince of Scratch.

Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales and heir to the British throne, put on a deejay show Tuesday as he visited Centrepoint shelter for homeless youth. The center is supported by Charles' Prince of Wales Trust.

While teenagers watched, the prince, 52, took to a turntable, put the needle on a record and started "scratching."

"Dig that crazy rhythm," the prince exclaimed as he blended DJ Dee Kline's dance hit "I Don't Smoke" with "Little Man" by Long Lost Brother.

"Are you insane?" the Prince asked, rhetorically, while pressing earphones to his head.

It was part of the Prince's celebration of the 25th anniversary of the charity he set up for disadvantaged youngsters.

Maximilian Schell hospitalized

NEW YORK -- Actor Maximilian Schell is recovering from an appendectomy. Schell, 70, was hospitalized Saturday in New York City.

The operation forced Schell to postpone his ongoing Broadway preview performance of "Judgment at Nuremberg" at Longacre Theatre.

He won a best actor Academy Award for the 1961 film version of "Judgment at Nuremberg," in which he played a young German defense lawyer.

In the Broadway version, he's playing the aging minister of justice on trial in 1948 for sentences he handed down under Hitler.

Schell's expected to resume performances Thursday, according to Joe Trentacosta, a spokesman for the production.

"He wants to come back earlier," Trentacosta said. "He wants to go now. But everyone's saying, 'take it a little easy.'"

The play is scheduled to open on March 26.

Eastwood steps in to 'Mystic River'

HOLLYWOOD, California -- Clint Eastwood wants to bring the best-selling thriller "Mystic River" to the big screen.

According to Variety, Eastwood has joined forces with Warner Bros. Pictures to acquire the feature rights to Dennis Lehane's novel, which was published by William Morrow in January.

Eastwood will produce and direct, according to Variety.

Eastwood's last project was the 2000 release, "Space Cowboys."

"Mystic River" is a psychological suspense thriller about three childhood friends who must deal with a tragic incident. They reunite 25 years later when they become linked to a murder investigation.

Hopper's handicap: He's addicted to golf

LOS ANGELES, California -- In the April issue of Maximum Golf magazine, Dennis Hopper talks candidly about his addictions to drugs and alcohol.

And the actor, who has starred in classics like "Easy Rider" and "Apocalypse Now," says he replaced his addictions with an obsession for birdies and pars.

"Golf is addictive. It replaces the drugs. It replaces the alcohol. I see it as a natural progression. I suppose that if you survive your drug days, you have golf ahead of you. That is, if you have any brain left at all," Hopper says.

Hopper says he's been hooked on golf for 18 years, and it helped him get in touch with the thespian buried beneath a fog of hangovers.

"At the time I thought (drugs) were a great help to my acting," Hopper said. "They were really crutches. They make you schizo and paranoid and out of control.

"Even though I thought I was doing great work, I was really doing OK work," he says. "I had to return to the basics of acting, to what I learned from (acting coach Lee) Strasberg, and to create out of that rather than out of some nose powder or martini."