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George Clooney suffered a broken rib and some scrapes on Friday when the motorcycle he and his girl friend Sarah Larson were riding collided with a car as the actor tried to pass the other vehicle, authorities said.

Larson suffered a broken foot. Both she and Clooney were wearing helmets.
They were treated in hospital and later released, Clooney’s spokesman Stan Rosenfield said.

Clooney, 46, is in the New York area to film Burn After Reading, co-starring Brad Pitt, John Malkovich and Frances McDormand. Clooney’s latest film, “Michael Clayton,” will be released in october.

Colin Farrell’s personal dresser on the “Miami Vice” set has settled a lawsuit against the movie’s production company two years after she fractured her jaw during filming.

Joulles Wright’s attorney, Charles Lipcon, and the defendants’ attorney, Bob McIntosh, confirmed Thursday that the lawsuit has been settled, but terms were not disclosed.

Wright, of Atlanta, was riding on a speedboat when an improperly secured bumper broke off and struck her in the face, according to the lawsuit filed in June 2006 in Miami-Dade County.

Wright, who had been hired as Farrell’s dresser during the filming of the movie in Miami, allegedly needed surgery and had to have her jaw wired after the August 2005 incident.

The lawsuit claimed the speedboat was unsafe and the defendants did not give Wright adequate medical care, which aggravated her injuries and caused additional pain, mental anguish and lost wages.

The defendants involved in the settlement were MV Film Productions L.L.C. and Entertainment Partners Inc., McIntosh said.

“Miami Vice,” starring Farrell and Academy-Award winner Jamie Foxx, is an update of the TV police series that helped define ’80s pop culture.

strong>Brad Pitt and Edward Norton are reported to star in the “Universal Pictures” adaptation of the British miniseries “State of Play”.

Norton will play a congressman whose speedy political rise is threatened by an investigation into the death of his mistress. Pitt plays a politico-turned-journalist whose relationship with the solon is compromised when he oversees his newspaper’s investigation into the murder and develops a relationship with the pol’s estranged wife.