Monica Haynes is off. Compiled from wire reports.

In the message, Baldwin called the 11-year-old a "rude, thoughtless little pig." He was apparently upset that she had missed his phone call.

"I'm disappointed, I'm ashamed to say this: You get angry," the 50-year-old actor told a crowd Monday of about 120 people at San Francisco's Commonwealth Club, where he was promoting his new book, "A Promise to Ourselves." "I wanted to see my daughter."

In the book, Baldwin rails against the family court system in Los Angeles, offers advice based on his own experience with divorce litigation and talks about how one parent can turn a child against another parent.

Baldwin said he's apologized to his daughter, Ireland, for the phone message, which he said was wrong and "horrified" him. But he added that it never should have been released without his permission.

Steven Spielberg and his wife, Kate Capshaw, are the latest celebrity donors to the fight against California's November ballot initiative that would overturn the state Supreme Court decision legalizing same-sex marriage.

Spielberg and Capshaw have donated $100,000 to fight Proposition 8, they announced in a statement Monday.

"By writing discrimination into our state constitution, Proposition 8 seeks to eliminate the right of each and every citizen in our state to marry regardless of sexual orientation," the statement said. "Such discrimination has NO place in California's constitution, or any other."

Also known as the Marriage Protection Act, Proposition 8 would amend the state constitution to limit marriage to a man and a woman. If passed, it would overturn the court decision that made the state only the second in the United States to legalize same-sex marriage.

Brad Pitt gave the same amount to the cause last week.

A sapphire-and-diamond brooch worn by singer Elton John in one of his music videos will go under the gavel this week.

The art deco piece is shaped like a "J" and was worn by John in the 1988 music video "I Don't Wanna Go on With You Like That."

It is expected to fetch about $22,000 when it goes up for sale at Bonhams auction house in London tomorrow.

The 1930s-era brooch has brilliant-cut and baguette-cut diamonds and oval-cut and circular-cut sapphires.

Despite the growing global financial crisis, the auction house struck a confident note about the sale of the brooch and other jewelry items.

Ed McMahon's lawsuit against a hospital and doctors he claims failed to properly diagnose and repair his broken neck has passed a key legal hurdle. A Los Angeles Superior Court judge has ruled that McMahon's lawsuit against Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and two physicians lays out adequate legal ground to pursue claims that include negligence, elder abuse, battery, fraud and intentional infliction of emotional distress.

Attorneys for Cedars-Sinai had challenged the legal basis for six of the claims.

But Judge John P. Sook disagreed, and his ruling also allows McMahon to seek punitive damages.

McMahon, 85, filed suit in July and is seeking an unspecified amount for injuries he sustained after a fall last March at a Los Angeles socialite's home.