Charlie Sheen hearing delayed

A Colorado court hearing during which actor Charlie Sheen was expected to plead guilty to a charge stemming from a Christmas Day dispute with his wife has been postponed.

Court officials said the hearing has been delayed from Monday to Aug. 2. Yale Galanter, one of Sheen’s attorneys, said the defense needs more time to work out details of an agreement that calls for Sheen to plead guilty to misdemeanor assault in exchange for prosecutors dropping more serious charges.

Galanter previously said the agreement calls for Sheen to serve 30 days in jail.

Sheen, star of “Two and a Half Men” on CBS, is charged with felony menacing, criminal mischief and assault against his wife, Brooke Mueller Sheen.

—Associated press

Shakespeare folio trial ends

A book dealer has been cleared of stealing a rare first edition of Shakespeare’s plays but was found guilty of handling stolen goods and removing stolen property from Britain.

Raymond Scott had been accused of theft after the 1623 folio was stolen from Durham University in 1998. He was arrested after the volume was taken to the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington.

Scott claimed he found the folio — which has been described as part of England’s “cultural heritage” — in Cuba.

At Newcastle Crown Court on Friday, Judge Richard Lowden remanded Scott in custody, warning “there will, in due time, be an inevitable substantial custodial sentence.”

—Associated press

Sing along with Susan Boyle

She dreamed a dream, and now Susan Boyle says she wants to make someone else’s dream come true.

The Scottish singer is searching for an unknown to duet with her on her upcoming album, “The Gift.”

Aspirants can upload videos of themselves singing “Silent Night” to Boyle’s website (www.susanboyle

music.com) and her YouTube channel. The competition closes July 23, with a winner announced July 26.

Boyle, 49, became an overnight sensation last year after her rendition of “I Dreamed a Dream” on the TV show “Britain’s Got Talent” was viewed millions of times on the Internet. Her debut album has sold more than 9 million copies.

—Associated press

Checker marks ‘Twist’s’ 50th

Fifty years to the day after the release of the hip-swiveling tune “The Twist,” the man who made it famous celebrated the occasion in his hometown Friday.

Chubby Checker, now 68, performed at a free noontime concert at Philadelphia City Hall. About 1,000 people joined in on the gyrations, some even invited onstage by the South Philadelphia-bred singer.

“The Twist,” released as a single on July 9, 1960, burst into the rock ‘n’ roll stratosphere after Checker performed it for Dick Clark on his Philadelphia-based “American Bandstand.”

Checker’s 1960 cover version of the Hank Ballard and the Midnighters song — released a year earlier to mild success — became a smash hit and turned the dance into a pop culture touchstone. It remains the only single to reach No. 1 on the U.S. charts during two separate runs, in 1960 and again in 1962.

—Associated press

Picturing

Anne Frank

The Anne Frank House Museum launched a graphic novel version of the teenage Jewish diarist’s biography Friday, hoping to bring her story and death in a Nazi concentration camp to a wider audience.

Spokeswoman Annemarie Bekker said the publication is aimed at teenagers who might not otherwise read Anne Frank’s diary, already the most widely read document to emerge from the Holocaust.

Using the style of comic books to illustrate serious historical topics, even genocide, is not new. “Maus,” Art Spiegelman’s graphic biography of his father, a survivor of the Auschwitz death camp, won a special Pulitzer Prize in 1992.

The Anne Frank biography, authorized by the Amsterdam museum, is a collaboration between American author Sid Jacobson and artist Ernest Colon. They also co-produced a bestselling graphic novel, “The 9/11 Commission Report.”

Publisher Hill & Wang will launch the graphic narrative in the U.S. later this month and MacMillan in Britain in the fall. Translations in German, French and Italian also are planned.

—Associated press

Finally

Curator: Julian Cox, curator of photography at the High Museum in Atlanta for the past five years, was named Friday to the dual positions of founding curator of photography at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and chief curator of its de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park.

Book: “Speaking Up: The Sarah Palin Story,” a biography of the former Alaska governor aimed at 9- to 12-year-old readers, is set for release in September by Christian book publisher Zondervan.