People: Awaiting jury duty, Mr. T still has pity

ROLLING MEADOWS, Ill. – Lawrence Tureaud, better known as Mr. T, was in true form as he waited outside a suburban Chicago courthouse to be called for jury duty.

Sporting his usual Mohawk and wearing an FBI sweatshirt and hat, but not a gold chain, the star of “Rocky III” and TV’s “The A-Team” signed autographs and made his feelings known.

He said, “I pity the criminals today,” as he explained he had been designated a potential juror for a trial scheduled for Friday.

The 62-year-old Tureaud said he never considered “playing hooky” after receiving the jury summons to the Rolling Meadows court.

Mr. T said he understood his duty and said it’s not his style to shirk responsibilities.

Tureaud wasn’t picked as a juror.

Police visit not about Baldwin

Police were called to Alec Baldwin’s New York City apartment building, but this time he wasn’t the one in trouble.

The volatile actor told the New York Times that normally when police are called to his Greenwich Village building, “you could likely guess it’s about one particular person.”

But on Tuesday, Baldwin says, his assistant and cleaning woman saw a neighbor hitting a woman over the head with a frying pan.

Neighbor Jaime McKeown was charged with assault. Baldwin says people in his building told him McKeown was furious at the woman upstairs for making too much noise.

Age catching up with action-star Chan

Action movie veteran Jackie Chan admits doing stunt work is “not like it used to be” as he no longer bounces back from big scenes.

“The next morning, you realize wow, it hurts!” says the actor, who turned 60 earlier this year.

“Now my body tells me to slow down 30 percent and probably in another two years, 20 more, then 50 percent. So slowly, slowly, then I will tell the whole world, stop doing action.”

For his next movie, “Dragon Blade,” Chan has swapped the somersaults and leaping around for some good old-fashioned swordplay.

And when it comes to future projects he says he will start to take the foot off the gas.

“Slowly, slowly I will let more people do it for me. Myself, I’ll only do the tight shot, close shot, otherwise the big wide shot, I’ll let someone else do it.”

The birthday bunch

Actress Maureen O’Hara is 94. Actor Robert DeNiro is 71. Rock musician Gary Talley (The Box Tops) is 67. Rock musician Sib Hashian is 65. Actor Robert Joy is 63. Rock singer Kevin Rowland (Dexy’s Midnight Runners) is 61. Rock musician Colin Moulding (XTC) is 59. Singer Belinda Carlisle is 56. Author Jonathan Franzen is 55. Actor Sean Penn is 54. Rock musician Steve Gorman (The Black Crowes) is 49. Rock musician Jill Cunniff is 48. Actor David Conrad is 47. Singer Donnie Wahlberg is 45. Rapper Posdnuos is 45. Actor Mark Salling (TV: “Glee”) is 32. Actor Bryton James is 28.