MEDIA WATCH

Score one for the talent. The Star, a British tabloid newspaper, has been ordered by a British to pay actor Richard Harris undisclosed damages plus $91,000 in legal costs for printing part of an off-the-record interview with Harris. A Star gossip column claimed Harris had not sought professional help to get his 25-year-old son off heroin but instead had used his own methods. During cross-examination during the trial, the Irish-born Harris had talked about receiving death threats from the Irish Republican Army after he condemned violence in Northern Ireland. “I’ve had six threats on my life so far this year and now they’ll start again because of what I’m saying here,” he said.