Names and faces

September 19, 2014 at 4:24 a.m.

by The Associated Press

FILE - In a Monday, June 9, 2014 file photo, U.S. actor Kevin Spacey arrives for the European Premiere of Now, at a cinema in central London. A Massachusetts woman, Linda Louise Culkin of Quincy, Mass., who threatened to blow up, torture and castrate Spacey in what prosecutors called a “persistent and malevolent” cyberstalking campaign, was sentenced Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2014, to more than four years in prison. A federal judge in Boston also ordered Culkin to pay Spacey $124,000 in restitution for bodyguards.The 55-year-old Culkin has been jailed since January 2012, meaning she has about 18 months left to serve. She pleaded guilty in November to charges including mailing threatening communications, and sending false information regarding explosives. (Photo by Joel Ryan/Invision/AP, File)
FILE - In a Monday, June 9, 2014 file photo, U.S. actor Kevin Spacey arrives for the European Premiere of Now, at a cinema in central London. A Massachusetts woman, Linda Louise Culkin of Quincy, Mass., who threatened to blow up, torture and castrate Spacey in what prosecutors called a “persistent and malevolent” cyberstalking campaign, was sentenced Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2014, to more than four years in prison. A federal judge in Boston also ordered Culkin to pay Spacey $124,000 in restitution for bodyguards.The 55-year-old Culkin has been jailed since January 2012, meaning she has about 18 months left to serve. She pleaded guilty in November to charges including mailing threatening communications, and sending false information regarding explosives. (Photo by Joel Ryan/Invision/AP, File)

• A Massachusetts woman who threatened to blow up, torture and castrate Oscar-winning actor Kevin Spacey in what prosecutors called a "persistent and malevolent" cyberstalking campaign has been sentenced to more than four years in prison. Linda Louise Culkin, 55, of Quincy was also ordered by a judge Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Boston to pay Spacey $124,000 to compensate him for the bodyguards he hired during the two-year stretch when she harassed him. Culkin was credited with time served since her arrest in January 2012, meaning she has about 18 months of the four-year, three-month sentence left. She pleaded guilty in November to charges including mailing threatening communications and sending false information regarding explosives. Culkin had in her apartment a picture of Spacey with his eyes blacked out and mouth scribbled out and multiple copies of a page titled "Killing Kevin Spacey," authorities said. Spacey was not in court for the sentencing, but a victim-impact statement was read. "It is difficult to measure the degree of terror this situation has caused," he wrote. Culkin apologized. "I have some mental health issues," she said. "I was overzealous. I cop to that. I fully apologize to him. I didn't mean it to be so harsh." Spacey won Oscars in 1996 for The Usual Suspects and 2000 for American Beauty.

• A familiar face -- former cast member Darrell Hammond -- is taking over for a familiar voice at Saturday Night Live. The show announced Thursday that Hammond, who acted on the long-running comedy show from 1995 to 2009, will replace announcer Don Pardo for the Sept. 27 season opener. For all but one year of the NBC show's 40-year history, it was Pardo's voice that would announce the host, musical guest and cast members every week, and he continued the job even after he retired to Arizona. Pardo died at age 96 on Aug. 18. Hammond, known best for his impersonations of Bill Clinton and Al Gore on the show, could also approximate Pardo's voice and had the chance to do it. A handful of times while he was on the show and Pardo wasn't available, Hammond filled in for him. NBC never announced those changes, and although a few bloggers may have noticed something different, it wasn't widely known.

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