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Campbell blames arrest on mixing alcohol, anxiety drug

PHOENIX - Glen Campbell blamed his drunken-driving arrest on the accidental mixing of alcohol and a prescription anti-anxiety drug.

"I'm taking Lexapro and you can't have alcohol with it, and I did. I forgot. That's just it in a nutshell really," he told the East Valley Tribune on Tuesday.

Campbell, 67, said he has been taking the medication to treat anxiety for the past seven or eight months.

The Delight, Ark., native was freed early Tuesday on $2,000 bail on charges of extreme drunken driving and hit and run. He also was arrested on suspicion of assaulting a police officer, but did not have to post bail for that count.

He told the Arizona Republic that he "fell off the wagon" Monday. "I think that old wagon, if I fall off it again, it'll run me right over."

BANGOR, Maine - Stephen King was expected to remain in a Maine hospital on Thanksgiving as he recovers from pneumonia.

King is conscious and in good spirits and is expected to recover fully, his spokesman, Warren Silver, said Wednesday.

King checked into the hospital Sunday. He underwent a procedure on Tuesday to remove fluid and scar tissue from his right lung, Silver said.

MTV reality show Real World San Diego got way too real when a 22-year-old woman accused a man of raping her while she was unconscious in a guest room of the home where the show is filmed. Neither is a cast member.

The woman said she went to a downtown nightclub on Nov. 14, where she met a man who was an acquaintance of one of the show's cast members. She said he gave her a drink that made her black out, and she believes she was assaulted while she was unconscious.

Police seized videotapes from 30 cameras mounted throughout the house.

The production of The Long Christmas Dinner by Thornton Wilder, scheduled to open next week at Gorilla Theatre in Tampa, has been canceled. The theater made the announcement after today's Weekend section was printed.