Anne Heche has baby boy

Olympian news services

Originally published Tuesday, March 5, 2002

PEOPLE IN THE NEWS

LOS ANGELES -- It's a boy for Anne Heche and her husband, Coleman Laffoon.

The 32-year-old actress gave birth to Homer Heche Laffoon during the weekend, said her publicist, Brad Cafarelli. The baby weighed 7 pounds.

Parents and baby are doing "absolutely fine," Cafarelli said.

The baby, born at 1:54 a.m. Saturday in Los Angeles, is Heche and Laffoon's first child.

Heche and Laffoon, 27, were married in September. The couple met while working on a documentary about Ellen DeGeneres' return to stand-up comedy.

Heche had a high-profile relationship with DeGeneres for more than three years.

SAN FRANCISCO -- A stand-up comedian was arrested after reportedly getting into a loud argument and a scuffle with a National Guardsman at San Francisco International Airport.

Kevin Meaney allegedly grabbed the soldier's loaded M-16 rifle with both hands and got into a shoving match with him Sunday after airport authorities repeatedly asked the comedian to stop videotaping checkpoint security procedures, authorities said.

The National Guard said Meaney also became verbally abusive when security staff asked to pat-search his wife.

"The majority of the problem was based on his conduct -- he was very loud and caused a disturbance at the checkpoint, yelling at the supervisors who were trying to calm him down and at the soldiers," said National Guard 1st Lt. Robert Paoletti.

The fight occurred at an American Airlines security checkpoint where Meaney, 45, was videotaping the operations. It has been against federal law to videotape such activities since the Sept. 11 attacks.

LOS ANGELES -- The villain of "The Patriot" will play a sinister dad in the upcoming "Harry Potter" sequel.

Jason Isaacs has signed on to play Lucius Malfoy in "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets," Warner Bros. said Monday.

Malfoy is the father of Draco Malfoy, Harry's nemesis at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

Isaacs is perhaps best known as the murderous Col. William Tavington in the 2000 Revolutionary War adventure "The Patriot." Isaacs' other credits include "Sweet November," "Armageddon" and "Black Hawk Down."

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