A hearing to determine whether to modify a court order preventing Charlie Sheen and his wife, Brooke, from contacting each other was postponed until Friday because Brooke Sheen underwent surgery for an oral infection.

Brooke Sheen's attorney, Yale Galanter, asked the court to allow his client to participate in Wednesday's scheduled hearing by telephone, citing Tuesday's surgery. Pitkin County District Court Judge James Boyd denied the motion but did reschedule the hearing for 10 a.m. Friday.

Police in this ski resort town about 200 miles west of Denver arrested Charlie Sheen on Dec. 25 on suspicion of felony menacing, second-degree assault and criminal mischief.

Charlie Sheen's lawyers have asked a judge to ban TV cameras during the actor's court hearing over his bust-up with wife Brooke Mueller to avoid a "media frenzy."

The star was ordered not to contact Mueller after a domestic dispute in Aspen, Colo., on Christmas Day, which landed him in police custody.

The "Two and a Half Men" actor was charged with second-degree assault, menacing and criminal mischief, and is due in court later this month to ask officials to lift the protection order.

Now his legal team has filed a request at Pitkin County District Court asking that cameras are barred from the courtroom, in a bid to protect the couple's privacy and Sheen's right to a fair trial.

Sheen's attorney, Richie Cummins, writes in court papers, "As intensely personal as this process is, (Sheen) accepts that his status as a celebrity comes with a level of scrutiny in his personal life. (He) understands that there will be media coverage of this case, and he does not seek to eliminate it.

"He does, however, seek to minimize its impact, so as to protect his right to a fair trial and to preserve for the alleged victim a modicum of privacy during this intensely painful and difficult time.

Former Friends star Jennifer Aniston's activism has been the force behind a new state law in California that restricts the paparazzi.

Aniston's activism was instrumental in the success of Assembly Bill 524, which takes effect from Jan 1, according to Assembly Speaker Karen Bass, who revealed that the actress' horror stories prompted her to fast track the legislation, reports hollywood.com.

The new law allows for civil penalties against the paparazzi and media outlets that sell and buy unlawfully obtained photographs and video footage of celebrities and their families.

Bass said she wrote the bill after Aniston and a group of celebrities helped her to understand just how bad the Los Angeles paparazzi problem had become.

"There have to be some boundaries. When you have children in the car and the photographers are rushing you, it's just absolutely out of control. It's become a public safety issue. Somebody's going to die if we don't do something," said Aniston.

Arrest warrants have been issued for actor Randy Quaid and his wife after they failed to appear for a court hearing, a prosecutor said Tuesday.

The couple didn't show up in a Santa Barbara criminal court Tuesday on a felony charge that they defrauded an innkeeper. The no-show will cost the couple $40,000 in forfeited bail.

It was the most recent in a string of court absences that have resulted in arrest warrants and an aborted attempt to extradite the pair from Randy Quaid's home state of Texas.

Senior Deputy District Attorney Lee Carter said the couple are felony fugitives again and will have to post $40,000 if arrested.

The Quaids' attorney, Robert Sanger, declined comment on the case.

Randy and Evi Quaid were arrested on Sept. 24 in West Texas after being accused of using an invalid credit card to defraud the San Ysidro Ranch in Montecito of more than $10,000.

Sanger has said the couple paid the bill and had hoped to resolve the case.

Randy Quaid is best-known for supporting roles in films such "Independence Day" and "National Lampoon's Vacation." He is the older brother of actor Dennis Quaid.

Roman Polanski is getting help from his victim in a bid to have sex misconduct charges against him dismissed.

The attorney for Samantha Geimer, who long ago publicly identified herself, argued for an end to the 32-year-old case on Thursday, saying she has repeatedly said she wants it dropped.

It was a surprise courtroom request in a lively hearing where appellate justices peppered lawyers and a prosecutor with pointed questions, often interrupting their arguments to raise new issues.

The California Second District Court of Appeal is being asked to decide if it should order a lower court to consider dismissing the case without Polanski's attendance in court. The justices did not immediately issue a ruling.

Polanski was arrested in Switzerland and is now confined to his Swiss chalet in the resort town of Gstaad, and his fate is in the hands of judges in two countries. He is fighting extradition.

Associate Justice Laurie Zelon asked the prosecutor why the district attorney's office had not investigated recent allegations of misconduct by a judge and prosecutor during Polanski's 1977 court proceedings.

The death of a prominent Los Angeles lawyer found in his driveway with a gunshot wound to the head has baffled investigators who tried to determine Wednesday if the killing was a murder.

Jeffrey Tidus was shot Monday night as he went to fetch his laptop from his car outside his home in the wealthy Rolling Hills Estates suburb. While no weapon was found at the scene and friends said Tidus had been in good spirits recently, sheriff's detectives have not ruled out suicide.

"We have handled a couple of suicides where the gun was taken from the scene by either an unknown person or friends of the victim," Los Angeles County sheriff's Lt. Dave Dolson said.

Several factors indicate the death could be a targeted killing, but Dolson said nothing could be ruled out at this time.

Tidus' wife told investigators her husband went to the car at about 8:30 p.m. Monday. She heard a gunshot and rushed outside to find him lying behind his parked Toyota Prius. Several neighbors also heard the shot, but detectives found no one who had seen a person or vehicle flee.

Tidus, 53, represented a number of high-profile corporate clients, including Hawthorne Savings, Isuzu Motors of America and defunct subprime lender New Century Financial, according to his Web site.

His brother, Michael Tidus, dismissed the idea that the death could have been a suicide and said investigators had asked if anyone would have a grudge.

A former cast member of the 1980s television show "Family Ties" is due in court in Boulder, Colo., on Wednesday.

Twenty-eight-year-old Brian Bonsall was arrested after he allegedly got into a fight at an apartment Saturday and hit a friend with part of a broken wooden stool.

Police say Bonsall told officers he had been drinking and didn't remember what happened.

Bonsall played the role of the youngest Keaton sibling, Andy, on the NBC sitcom starring Michael J. Fox.

Authorities say Bonsall was sentenced to probation in 2007 for assaulting his girlfriend. He was later accused of probation violations.

The former child actor lives in Westminster, Colo., about 20 miles south of Boulder.