TV & VIDEO - July 22, 1988

Charges of speeding, driving while intoxicated and cocaine possession will be filed by a Louisiana prosecutor against actor Howard Rollins, despite recent reports to the contrary. East Baton Rouge Parish assistant district attorney Glen Lorio said Wednesday that “there is not any basis for dropping charges,” but added that Rollins’ completion of a substance-abuse program at the noted Hazelden Center in Minnesota “will probably get him in good shape if he pleads guilty.” Rollins, 37, was arrested in March while in Louisiana filming a television remake of “In the Heat of the Night” with Carroll O’Connor. Police clocked his car at more than 100 m.p.h. and found cocaine in it.