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Slater Update: Christian Slater reportedly told police he had taken heroin and cocaine and had been drinking for days before being subdued by officers during a scuffle Monday, according to the Associated Press. Slater, who was arrested on assault charges after allegedly biting a man in the stomach and punching a woman in the face, is scheduled to be arraigned Sept. 2 in West Los Angeles. His blood-alcohol level was reportedly tested at .24% (the legal limit for drivers is .08%). The actor’s spokesman had no comment Wednesday on the Associated Press report.

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McInerney’s in Trouble?: Sean Penn’s new Santa Monica nightclub, McInerney’s, is $60,000 behind on the rent, and will have to vacate the premises if the bill is not paid, the property’s manager said. The club--which opened Jan. 31 and has been a hangout to Hollywood stars including Robert De Niro, Jack Nicholson, Dennis Hopper and Ellen DeGeneres--has been closed for a month, though a handwritten note taped on the front door says the closure is due to remodeling. The note says the club will reopen with a new cigar room. “I’m sure they’re going to clear it up. We’d really like to see them make it,” said Bruce Bates of the Auerbach Commercial Realty Corp., which manages the site. Penn is in Australia working on a film and was unavailable for comment.

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New Oscar Head: Producer Robert Rehme will succeed director Arthur Hiller as president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, the group that presents the Oscars. Rehme previously served as the group’s president from 1992-93. Hiller, who will remain an officer as immediate past president, had served the maximum four consecutive terms permitted by the academy’s by-laws.

QUICK TAKES

Woody Harrelson has agreed to pay a $1,000 fine and spend 20-25 hours teaching California schoolchildren about the environment to make up for his traffic-jamming climb on San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge, his lawyer said. Harrelson and eight others scaled the bridge last November to protest destruction of Redwood trees in Northern California. . . . Former “Quantum Leap” co-star Dean Stockwell has been added to the cast of NBC’s forthcoming sitcom “The Tony Danza Show.” He will play Danza’s widowed father. . . . “Men in Black” screenwriter Ed Solomon will discuss the hit movie and autograph copies of the companion book, “Men in Black--The Script and the Story Behind the Film,” tonight at 7 p.m. at Burbank’s Barnes & Noble bookstore. . . . The WB network, seen locally on KTLA-TV Channel 5, is moving its highest-rated program, “The Jamie Foxx Show,” from Wednesdays to Sundays, starting Sept. 7. The program will air at 8 p.m.