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Young Hollywood actress Lindsay Lohan has been in a car accident and is suspected of drunk driving and possession of illegal drugs, police said Saturday.

Lohan hospitalized early Saturday after she allegedly crashed her black Mercedes into a curb near the Beverly Hills Hotel. Her injuries are said to be non life-threatening.

Police Lieutenant Mitch McCann said Lohan had been cited for driving under influence and the case would be presented to the district attorney's office.

He said the actress could face more charges including felonies because of "some additional contraband found in the vehicle."

The actress is 20. It is illegal for youngsters under the age of 21 to consume alcohol in California.

German-Turkish Fatih Akin's The Edge of Heaven, one of the favorites for the coveted Cannes filmfest Palm d'Or, scooped a first cinematic honor on Saturday.

The Ecumenical Jury Award, a small but prestigious Cannes prize, was handed to Akin because of its power in bringing home a tragedy about two families bridging the East-West divide.

"In a very accomplished way, this film tells the story of crossed destinies, in Germany and Turkey, of men and women from different origins," the six-person jury said.

Hanna Schygulla, perhaps best known as the muse to legendary German director Rainer Fassbinder, heads a remarkable cast of Germans and Turks.

It is Akin's second film in a trilogy that began with Head On, the international art-house hit that brought him his first major success.

The movie confronts death in a convincing tale of loss and forgiveness that moved many to tears at its premiere.

The jury said it reflected the painful complexity of loss "as well as the richness of encounters, crossings and living together and getting these two different world united."

Paul Newman's career has included winning an Oscar, establishing a food company to fund charities, and operating a restaurant, but he said this week he is retiring from acting. "I'm not able to work anymore as an actor at the level that I would want to," the 82-year-old Hollywood star told ABC News in an interview released on its Web site on Friday.

Barbra Streisand has canceled a Rome concert that would have launched her European tour, but organizers said on Friday it had nothing to do with an outcry from Italian consumer groups about ticket prices. A spokeswoman for concert promoter CPI said Streisand's planned appearance at Rome's Flaminio Stadium was scrapped due to production difficulties that will prevent the tour from opening in the Italian capital as scheduled on June 15.

In Hollywood, where moneyed studios crank out films, many of which seem to be forgotten almost as fast as they are made, fans by the thousands remembered the 30th anniversary of Star Wars, that rare blockbuster that earned a cult following.

Fans as Luke Skywalker, soldiers of the Empire and lovable robots began arriving for the Star Wars Conference on Wednesday.

In the meantime, fans are buying up masks for as much as US$1,000, light sabers, figurines of the robots R2D2 and CP3O, posters, bibs for babies and Teddy bear-style Ewok dolls, based on the fuzzy creatures that appear in the 1983 movie Return of the Jedi.