Stalker

NBA players always learn to anticipate the unexpected in playoff games. But hardly anyone could anticipate this. Late in the first half of the Lakers' eventual 92-88 victory over the Denver Nuggets on Sunday at Pepsi Center, a woman walked from her courtside seat onto the court. She nearly made it to the three-point line as she approached Denver guard Ty Lawson as he dribbled the ball. Before anything could escalate, a referee and security official escorted the woman away. The Denver Post's Yesenia Robles and Kurtis Lee reported the woman was 20-year-old Savannah McMillan, 20, who was arrested and cited for trespassing.

Hugh Jackman was accosted by a razor-toting Bakersfield woman Saturday morning at a New York City gym. The woman, 47-year-old Katherine Thurston, reportedly ran into Jackman outside his gym and said, "We're going to get married, right?" before making her way inside, shouting that she loved him and taking an electric razor out of a bag, according to the New York Post . After losing hold of the razor and being told to leave, she fled and was arrested several blocks away. She was then charged with stalking, police told CNN . The razor reportedly fell out of her hands after a trainer from the gym stepped between Thurston and Jackman.

Mila Kunis' stalker appears to be violating his stay-away order. The man in question, Stuart Dunn, is being evaluated in a mental facility and could face possible jail time, TMZ reported Monday. He was detained Friday after allegedly showing up at Kunis' Los Angeles gym for the third day in a row. Dunn was arrested last January after allegedly burglarizing the " Jupiter Ascending " actress' home. He pleaded no contest and was ordered to 36 months of probation plus stay-away restrictions for three years.

Mila Kunis' stalker appears to be violating his stay-away order. The man in question, Stuart Dunn, is being evaluated in a mental facility and could face possible jail time, TMZ reported Monday. He was detained Friday after allegedly showing up at Kunis' Los Angeles gym for the third day in a row. Dunn was arrested last January after allegedly burglarizing the " Jupiter Ascending " actress' home. He pleaded no contest and was ordered to 36 months of probation plus stay-away restrictions for three years.

Accused Night Stalker Richard Ramirez, who has made several courtroom outbursts, yelled at reporters today, calling them "sensation-seeking parasites." Ramirez's outburst occurred as he was led away by bailiffs to a lockup area next to the court where his trial is taking place. As the accused serial killer was led past a section of the court set aside for reporters and camera crews, he turned to them, growled and yelling at the top of his lungs, said: "Media. Sensation-seeking parasites."

KNBC-TV news anchor Kelly Mack's 12-year ordeal with an obsessed fan began as innocent flattery, with gushing letters and requests for autographed photos. Over time, however, the reported delusions of one man--and the incessant phone calls, faxes, gifts and letters by the thousands--altered Mack's life and instilled in her a chronic sense of fear.

Zona A Book About a Film About a Journey to a Room Geoff Dyer Pantheon: 230 pp., $24 Imagine going to the movies but, for one reason or another, you can't see or hear anything on-screen. Fortunately, you can still experience the film with the help of a friend tugging on your sleeve excitedly and guiding you through the movie by describing what they see and hear, and, for added color, what it means. How much you'd gain from that experience would depend on your level of patience, certainly, but also on the quality of the film and your friend's abilities.

Being married does not preclude you from also being a "stalker maniac weirdo" ("She's the Elusive Apple of the Web's Eye," Aug. 23). Being 30 and thinking some girl you saw in a TV commercial deserves "a little shrine" pretty much says "stalker maniac weirdo." VICTORIA TANG Los Angeles

Re "Online Reviews Raising Questions in Cyberspace," June 29: Until recently, I was naive enough to assume the reviews on Amazon.com were authentic. Then I learned from a friend that someone using his "eddress" had posted a viciously negative review of my book, "Keep Watching the Skies," on Amazon.com. Internal evidence proved it was really posted by a sad case who had been stalking me online for some time, and evidently this fact convinced Amazon.com to remove the bogus review. The same stalker attacked others who had books featured on Amazon in the same manner.

For a week most of the residents in the 24000 block of Chrisanta Drive in Mission Viejo slept with their doors locked, their porch lights on and their windows closed in the midst of an unyielding heat wave. The Night Stalker had already broken into one of the homes on Chrisanta Drive before dawn last Sunday, firing three shots into the head of Bill Carns, 29, and raping his girlfriend. Carns' neighbors were determined they would not be the Stalker's next victim.

NBA players always learn to anticipate the unexpected in playoff games. But hardly anyone could anticipate this. Late in the first half of the Lakers' eventual 92-88 victory over the Denver Nuggets on Sunday at Pepsi Center, a woman walked from her courtside seat onto the court. She nearly made it to the three-point line as she approached Denver guard Ty Lawson as he dribbled the ball. Before anything could escalate, a referee and security official escorted the woman away. The Denver Post's Yesenia Robles and Kurtis Lee reported the woman was 20-year-old Savannah McMillan, 20, who was arrested and cited for trespassing.

The worst disease known to the citrus industry may have arrived in California on a bud of friendship. A graft of pomelo - a symbol of good fortune and prosperity in many Asian cultures - was the likely source of the state's first documented case of huanglongbing, a citrus disease with no known cure, say researchers involved in the investigation. The suspected plant shoot, or budwood, was passed freely among San Gabriel Valley church friends who loved to garden and experiment with hybridization, according to residents.

Zona A Book About a Film About a Journey to a Room Geoff Dyer Pantheon: 230 pp., $24 Imagine going to the movies but, for one reason or another, you can't see or hear anything on-screen. Fortunately, you can still experience the film with the help of a friend tugging on your sleeve excitedly and guiding you through the movie by describing what they see and hear, and, for added color, what it means. How much you'd gain from that experience would depend on your level of patience, certainly, but also on the quality of the film and your friend's abilities.

'That Certain Summer' Hal Holbrook and Martin Sheen played longtime companions in this milestone drama penned by Richard Levinson and William Link. 'The Night Stalker' Dan Curtis produced this cult favorite starring Darren McGavin as a reporter who believes a serial killer is actually a vampire. 'The Glass House' Tom Gries directed this prison drama shot at Utah State Prison starring Alan Alda and Kristoffer Tabori.

Question: I separated from my husband six months ago. I rented an apartment a couple of months back so I could live in peace, but my husband keeps stalking and threatening me. The police were called the first time and tried to calm the situation, and when he showed up again a week later I obtained a restraining order. The resident manager has told me I need to leave before the end of the month because the owner doesn't want to upset the other tenants with my domestic problems. I cannot find another place before the end of the month.

Whether the serial killer known as the Original Night Stalker is still alive, nobody knows. But 30 years after a couple died while housesitting in Goleta, investigators have confirmed through DNA testing what they long suspected: The man who killed them is the same one they believe responsible for a decades-long crime spree that started with dozens of rapes in Northern California and ended with as many as 10 slayings in Santa Barbara, Ventura and...

In the title role of Adrián Biniez's quietly engaging "Gigante," Horacio Camandule's Jara is pretty gigantic: a nice-looking, massive guy whose solid build is marred by too much belly for even his large frame. He's a shy, 35-year-old security guard who works a night shift monitoring the surveillance cameras of a vast supermarket on the outskirts of Montevideo, Uruguay. Through one of his cameras, he spots Julia (Leonor Svarcas), a pretty young cleaning woman. It's an instance of virtual love at first sight, but Jara doesn't know what to do with his feelings.

Sal Mineo A Biography Michael Gregg Michaud Harmony: 410 pp., $25.99 Near the climax of "Rebel Without a Cause," three angst-filled adolescents played by James Dean, Natalie Wood and Sal Mineo take refuge in an abandoned mansion. As Dean reclines on an old couch, Mineo innocently rests his head on the other boy's arm, a display of male affection unseen before on screen. Mineo's emotionally charged performance as John "Plato" Crawford would be recognized years later as the movies' first gay teen, a prototype of the openly gay youths on Fox's "Glee" and other shows today.

James Nelson, a longtime Los Angeles Municipal Court judge whose career included high-profile preliminary hearings involving Richard Ramirez, the serial killer known as the Night Stalker, and Cathy Evelyn Smith, who was charged in the death of comic John Belushi, has died. He was 83. Nelson died Feb. 26 in his sleep after a family gathering at his home in Pasadena, said his wife, Dorothy, a senior judge on the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. He had a stroke and underwent bypass surgery a couple years ago. In 1985, Nelson ruled that Smith must stand trial on a second-degree murder charge in the 1982 drug overdose death of Belushi, the former "Saturday Night Live" star.